Mike Isaac in Mobile on May 2 at 3:26 pm PT
Apple catches Dropbox’s hand in the App Store cookie jar, smacks them down.
Ina Fried in News on June 16, 2011 at 10:38 am PT
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.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 22, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
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.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 25, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
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.
Voices
Voices in News on December 17, 2010 at 4:12 pm PT
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.
News Byte
Voices in News on October 4, 2010 at 9:44 am PT
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.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 14, 2010 at 9:19 am PT
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.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 13, 2010 at 4:01 am PT
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.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 8, 2010 at 2:29 pm PT
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.
