Why I will never own an electronic book
rick 
via softwareblogs.intel.com
Products like the Kindle from Amazon.com and Sony Reader are becoming more readily available, cheaper and more popular. I will never buy one and if... more »
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Google Chrome and Grizzly Comet: does it work?
The buzz around Google Chrome attacked me...just to make sure Chrome supports Comet, I did try using the monster implementation to see if sockets in... more »
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Handle SMS Text messages with ease
Sms2do is a free environment to design and evaluate SMS text messaging applications. It can be used to add MO (Mobile Originated) services to any... more »
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Android Photostream
Thierry.Lefort via android-developers.blogspot.com
I'm pleased to announce that a new open source sample application—called Photostream—has been added to the apps-for-android project. Photostream is a... more »
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ShutterSpeed: A Simple Android application
bloid via curious-creature.org
ShutterSpeed is a simple Android application I wrote this weekend. The application itself is not terribly useful nor interesting, but it shows how to... more »
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Why Apple keeps its iPhone 2.0 SDK under NDA
Apple's insistence on keeping iPhone 2.0 development under strict non disclosure agreements is frustrating efforts in the development community to... more »
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Google Announces Winners of Android Developer Challenge
Thierry.Lefort via tgdaily.com
Google announced the 20 winners of its Android developer challenge, ten of which will receive a prize of $275,000 and ten more who will receive... more »
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How we won an iPhone dev competition without any prior knowledge
How two programmers knowing nothing about Objective-C or the iPhone SDK won a little iPhone dev competition at last weekend's iphone dev camp in... more »
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Suddenly, Android is hot again
bloid via blogs.zdnet.com
After months of silence, the double-whammy of new software and hardware has gotten everyone talking about Android again.Earlier this month Erick... more »
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Google Protocol Buffers
I’ve been looking for a good solution to serializing object/data streams from mobile environments to services. Object serialization doesn’t really... more »
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Free Text Messaging (SMS) API from Zeep Mobile - just launched
The Zeep Mobile SMS API allows any website to send and receive text messages (SMS) to and from it's users. There are no volume restrictions and the... more »
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Preposterous Bugs
As a developer you tend to be very sensitive about how software works and how it's not supposed to work. You know that it's hard to write good... more »
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Google drops Bluetooth, GTalkService APIs from Android 1.0
Google has dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs (application program interfaces) from the set of tools for the first version... more »
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Learn How To Develop For The iPhone
Today I'm going to show you how to build an alternate page and style sheet for the iPhone and iTouch. We will cover how to detect if the user is using... more »
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Objective-C for iPhone application development
Objective-C and iPhone application development. Resource links & how to start.
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First Android Phone Just Approved By FCC
Today, the news broke that the HTC Dream, the first handset to run Android (aka "the Google Phone") has been approved by the FCC. In the documents... more »
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Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK
0.9 Beta release of the Android Developer's SDK
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Screen shots from the new Android OS SDK 0.9
Four screen shots of the Android OS from the new Android 0.9 SDK!
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Learn How To Develop For The iPhone
detachedDesigns via nettuts.com
I'm going to show you how to build an alternate page and style sheet for the iPhone and iTouch. We will cover how to detect if the user is using an... more »
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Every time I use the iPhone App Store, a little piece of my soul dies.
rick via stevenf.com
I don't think I've ever been as conflicted about something as I am about the iTunes App Store. There are so many intersections at which it is both the... more »
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LWUIT vs. JavaFX Mobile
bloid via blogs.zdnet.com
The light-weight user interface toolkit for Java ME (LWUIT) has been released as open source under the GPLv2+classpath exception license. LWUIT is a... more »
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LWUIT released as open source!
Sun introduced the Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) to the developer community at JavaOne this year. We made available at that time a prerelease binary... more »
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An Introduction to the Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT)
Thierry.Lefort via today.java.net
Java ME allows us to write applications that are, generally speaking, portable across a wide range of small devices that support the platform. While... more »
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Sun's LWUIT Open Sourced!
Sun released the source code of its implementation of the Light-Weight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) today.
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The Darker Side Of iPhone App Development
I’m in the middle of building an iPhone app (for eventual distribution in the App Store) and, given what happened recently with NetShare, I took a... more »
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