Leave it to Facebook to invent yet another way to keep us all glued to the site. The social network has made the status update stickier with the addition of embedded games that people can play as they skim the …
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If there is one application that personifies how Apple’s mega-popular iPad is transforming the enterprise, it could very well be the intuitive, luscious, and just-plain-cool Roambi, a business intelligence app that brings mundane data to life in unimaginable ways.
Roambi, …
The main coders working on HP’s Enyo — the HTML5 application framework first seen in the HP TouchPad — have jumped ship and are headed to Google, the Verge reports.
This puts a huge dent in HP’s plan to open …
Every few months a new innovation in physical interaction with virtual objects comes along and the Minority Report comparisons begin. But (T)ether, a new project by a group of students at the MIT Media lab, is one of the first …
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Everyone knows it, but few people acknowledge it: Mobile web browsers absolutely suck. Technologists are launching commercial space flights, mapping the human genome, and building flexible computer displays, yet we still haven’t figured out the right way to use a …
The CTO and CIO of the U.S. government have announced a new digital roadmap for the U.S. that encourages the further use of open data, and tries to inspire developers to work for the government.
“We have an opportunity to …
Analyzing big data doesn’t have to be an expensive and drawn out affair. A company called Precog has launched a simple, drop-in app developers can use to collect and analyze vast amounts of data for product features like recommendations, reporting, …
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Analysts commenting on Facebook’s IPO have highlighted a major issue in mobile computing: that it’s incredibly difficult to monetize on mobile devices. Like many other engineering-led cultures, Facebook has embraced adaptive design, also known as responsive design, where essentially the …
Two of the more interesting companies on the mobile-development landscape are announcing a new deal for developers today, and will be making great tools for location-based apps available for free.
If you’re into mobile development, Appcelerator and Geoloqi are probably …
GitHub has maintained a long and profitable love affair with all things Apple, but today, the folks behind the most popular code repository site are sullying their allegiance to Cupertino with — get ready to gasp and clutch your pearls …
On the eve of the largest technology IPO in American history, the company at the center of all the hoopla is celebrating in a geeky-chic style emblematic of its eight-year history.
Friday morning at 6:30 a.m. Pacific, Facebook CEO Mark …
To prove that the “Hacker Way” is alive and well at Facebook, the social network will be hosting an all-night, employee hackathon at its Menlo Park campus and satellite offices.
The event, dubbed Hackathon 31, is especially significant for the …
Flexible screens, wearable computers, conductive ink, wires that move like muscles: These are the materials that will make up the gadgets of the future, and they’re being dreamed up and developed in do-it-yourself hacker labs and garages all around the …
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Twilio has finally released its Android client with a new native software development kit that will allow Android developers to add VoIP features to any Android app.
The startup’s iOS client has been around since February, and today, Android developers …
For a small Portland, Ore.-based startup, AppFog has managed to build a huge fan base.
AppFog offers a platform-as-a-service for developers building web applications. What that means in simple terms is that if you’ve got a program you want to …
Editor's Pick Checkpoint Studios unveils its AviNation airline simulation game on Facebook
Insomniac Games, makers of the successful Ratchet & Clank and Resistance series, just announced their first Facebook game and second EA Partners project, Outernauts.
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It isn’t easy to move to a new city, launch a new studio, and create a new game at the same time. But LightBox Interactive has done just that, and now Sony is finally releasing LightBox’s new sci-fi western-style game, …
Microsoft has just released hundreds of pre-built mobile app components, open-source projects, and SDKs for Windows Phone development into the wild.
The new components and APIs come via Verious, a marketplace for plug-and-play bits and pieces for mobile applications.
And …
