Posts Tagged ‘OS’

First Experience Samsung Wave

April 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Bada, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Last Monday we visited an event where Samsung was mass-demonstrating the WAVE and with it, their brand new Bada platform. We took some time and played around with the device.

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Bango Seems 4.0 TOS Proof

April 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Bango has announced that its analytics service is in-line with the new Terms of Service from Apple. Reason for this is Bango’s ‘unique’ tracking system. This while it is still not clear what ‘Device Data’ means.

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SocialKit to Bring Facebook onto iPhone OS 4.0?

April 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Gunning for Safety discovered that Apple might be working on Facebook integration for iPhone OS 4.0. The iPhone already supports Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, MobileMe, AOL and other user accounts.

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4.0: Apple Bans External Compilers

April 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Bad news for web services and Adobe as Apple has updated the terms and conditions for iPhone developers yet again. Through article 3.3.1 the use of external compilers has been prohibited.

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4.0: More Bits

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

iPhone OS 4.0 will be available to the iPad this fall while the iPhone will have it along the summer already. iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G and below will not have multitasking.

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4.0 iAd Takes on Greystripe and Friends

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple is not only taking on social gaming networks but as expected, they also launch iAds mobile advertising. This will be Apple’s own advertising platform that offers native advertising API’s.

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4.0: Stuffing Your Games in Folders

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 2 Comments »

Though consumers love to downloads huge amounts of apps, there has always been a limit of 148 apps in total. Apple will now be lifting the limit with the use of folders.

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Google to Split Android

March 30th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

According to rumors, Google has plans to split Android up. That way, consumers can get access to API’s of future Android versions without having to wait for vendors and operators to make new firmware available.

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Apple Released iPhone SDK 3.2 B4

March 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Today, Apple has released iPhone SDK Beta 4 (two weeks after the last one). Though iPhone developers can download the SDK, it will be focused mainly at iPad development.

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Apple to Integrate Advertising in iPhone OS

March 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Over the past years, in-game advertising has been a second revenuestream for developers in which they didn’t have to give a cut to Apple since they didn’t have any control over those ads. That might change now.