Is Dropbox Pulling a Honey Badger on the App Store?

Apple catches Dropbox’s hand in the App Store cookie jar, smacks them down.
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Kinect Not Just for Gamers — Microsoft Wants Geeks to Play With It, Too

The Kinect may have been designed as an easy and fun way to control the Xbox, but from the moment it was introduced, hackers have found other uses. Microsoft decided to embrace the interest and on Thursday released a set of software tools that will let developers come up with all manner of other uses for the motion-sensing camera.
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Microsoft Has Big Plans for Kinect's Future

Though the Kinect is best known as an accessory for gaming on the XBox 360, showed how its own researchers–and others–are using the Kinect for things other than games.

Tool for Creating iPhone and Android Games Now Speaks Windows as Well as Mac

The tool, used to build games like Bubble Ball and Doodle Dash, now allows game development to take place on Windows PCs as well as Macs.

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IPhone App iTeleport Wants You to Get Excited About VNC

On the go and want to have a look at that spreadsheet you forgot to transfer to your iPad? What about checking on the progress of that movie download? VNC, or virtual network computing, apps have been the solution to those problems since the app store debuted, and one of them is about to make a big bet, go free-ish and try to start a new direction.

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Qualcomm Encourages Developers to Augment Reality

Reality–it’s just so…ordinary. What reality really could use is some augmentation, and Qualcomm is giving Android developers the tools to do the job. The mobile technology outfit today released its Augmented Reality Software Development Kit, which will help developers build applications that can layer interactive 3-D content over a view of an ordinary 2-D object (a game board, for instance) or a 3-D object like a product package or promotional item.

Apple Gives iOS Developers a Little More Language Leeway

Apple has quietly updated the iOS Developer Program License Agreement, relaxing a restriction on interpreted code that has effectively kept Adobe’s Flash platform off the iPhone–but not enough to allow it on.

A “Hole-Filler” Gets Funded: TweetPhoto Raises $2.6 Million

The new conventional wisdom is that photo-sharing systems built around Twitter are toast. But don’t tell that to the TweetPhoto team. The San Diego-based photo service just raised its first big funding round.

Adobe: We’ll Be Fine Without Apple

What else could they say?

Did Apple Just Kick Adobe (And Wired Magazine) in the Teeth?

It looks like Apple just stepped up its attacks against Adobe and its Flash standard–used throughout the Web and apparently hated with much passion by Steve Jobs. Caught in the crossfire once again: Condé Nast and Wired Magazine.

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Another Bloodletting at Microsoft

Palm: Execution Is Everything

One Million Palm Pre Apps Downloaded