Posts Tagged ‘API’

Microsoft to Charge for Bing API Usage

April 19th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following in Google’s footsteps, Bing has now grown enough to start charging developers for usage of the Bing search API’s. Free usage of the API’s will disappear in the next couple of months.

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Amazon to add in-app Purchases to their Appstore

April 10th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

While Amazon is hot on the heels of Apple when it comes to revenues from app sales, the giant is finally releasing a feature Apple and others have been relying on for quite a while. In-app purchases…

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DirectCanvas HTML5 Tool Launches Android Beta

March 6th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Web Apps | No Comments »

AppMobi has launched the beta version of its directCanvas tool. The tool helps developers to develop HTML5 apps and speeds up 2D rendering for games a thousand times (according to AppMobi).

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First Union Games hit Xperia Play

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Union, the distribution arm of unity, has announced the release of five games on the Xperia Play. All five games are optimized for the device using the special Xperia Play API from Unity.

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OpenFeint Goes Platform Independent

February 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Today, OpenFeint announced OpenFeint Connect, a do it yourself solution for those developers that wish to implement OpenFeit functionality on yet unsupported platforms and app stores.

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Layar Releases Developer API’s

February 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Tired of implementing Google Maps into your apps? Layar has now announced developers can include their augmented reality browser into their apps.

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Apple to Somewhat Allow Jailbreaks

December 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

While Apple has been monitoring jailbreaks for some time and has an API in place in iOS4 that monitors the status of an iPhone, the company has silently switched that functionality off.

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Gearbox Gives Android some Balls to Play With

August 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Gearbox has announced their roboballs which are remotely controlled by an Android (and later iOS) based phone. The balls come with a little suite of games and an API for other developers.

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Foursquare Re-Launches App Gallery

May 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Foursquare has re-launched its App Gallery. The App Gallery is meant for developers who have build apps (on mobile devices) that submit or visualize data coming from the Foursquare community.