Category: "Development"

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  • Microsoft thinks Kinect’s, not hacked

    Soon after the launch of Kinect, Martin who bought Kinect, created an open source driver to run Kinect work on Linux PC. It can now also work in Mac OS X and Windows. And after that, many stepped into the “hacked” Kinect development. Alex Kipman, the “Director of Incubation for Xbox” says to ScienceFriday: .bbpBox5722901688877056... 

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  • SE’s having pinch-to-zoom development for Xperia X10 – Android 2.1 is sluggish

    Android 2.1 update with pinch-to-zoom for Xperia X10, coming. Developers at Sony Ericsson are promising to come out with the update by Q1 of 2011. So during the dawn of Gingerbread availability, SE’s rolling out with their frst Android 2.1 update for Xperia X10, and promising for second one – how stupid! Yes, Android 2.1 update for Xperia... 

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  • Samsung Bada SDK 1.1.0 (final release) is out for developers

    Since the launch of Bada powered Samsung Wave, Samsung had been releasing out some beta SDKs of Bada OS for developers. Finally the final release of Samsung Bada SDK is out. With all the features of previous betas and v1.0.0, v1.1.0 also has the following: Auto Scaling: Enables automatic scaling of applications from WVGA resolution to WQVGA resolution. Test... 

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  • Adobe comes with a surprise – brings a Flash to HTML5 converter

    Adobe – you never seize to amaze us. Adobe said a few months ago that they were working on some “HTML5 related ‘stuff’” but we didn’t knew what it was, now we do. Adobe <3 HTML5 So, this is pretty surprising – Adobe is apparently adding ability to convert Flash to HTML5, crazy? Yes. Bad? Obviously not!... 

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  • Apple awarded pinch-to-zoom patent?

    Now this is a news, probably might worry Apple’s competitive manufacturers and software developers. The essential pinch-to-zoom is said to be awarded to Apple, in a manner of “patent.” Although there’s certain limits with the patent, it gives Apple a relief. According to the elaboration of Engadget, when reading out the below... 

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  • Experience Adobe AIR on Android, released

    So, Adobe AIR is available for Android phones at last. Adobe AIR has the potential to bring a whole new platform for developers to create apps for Android, take TweetDeck or Adobe Media Player as examples. Adobe Air listed in App Manager But you can’t use it if you don’t have Eclair aka Android 2.1, or above that. As this has just arrived... 

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  • Google’s WebP image format, fastens the web browsing

    Well, it’s still an on-going project by Google, based on their open-sourced VP8 video codec. The big G claims that this image format can really make your experience on the interwebs, a lot faster than now – with almost no image quality loss. Indeed, image formats that are used to output in today’s every browsers are based on a decade... 

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  • Chromium OS on iPad, working and in love

    iPad running Chrome OS, funnily enough on the iPad site Ooo, see what we got here – it’s Chromium OS running on the iPad, madness. Hexxeh – the guy who dropped a blessing on us by providing the nightly builds of Chromium OS, has now ported the Chromium OS to make the iPad more Magical and Revolutionary, than Apple intended. In the... 

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  • Nokia encouraging developers, just like Samsung Bada

    Nokia‘s declared a developer contest, winner will get $10 million. It’s a similar activity what Samsung has carried on for Bada development. Nokia and AT&T today started Calling All Innovators, North America. Developers get 17 categories, to specify their apps. Worldwide developers can participate, making apps for North American consumers.... 

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  • Chromimum gets some (Google) Instant

    Yaw, know the Google Instant yeah? It’s “instant”, great and all, but the problem is – how many people actually goto www.google.com to search something? Most probably you are just using the SearchBox or Ominibox/OneBox in your browser. Well, here’s what The Big Brother brings for you, Google Instant: in Chrome. See the... 

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  • Evolution-Ultimate β public release!

    After many months, here comes another Windows Phone 6.5.3 ROM for HTC Touch Viva (also knows as Opal). Evolution-Ultimate is the latest offering from Evolution series and its still in beta though it’s almost perfect. As far as bugs are considered, this ROM has been reported bugless by the five beta testers from XDA (thanks to them!). We are just... 

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  • Airtel GPRS and EDGE, would improve now, with implementing nanoGSM

    Wait a minute – Did anyone say GPRS? EDGE? What about 3G? It’s been months the 3G auctions over, and even Airtel was listed in the bid winners. Alright, the topic goes on that “ip.access bring picocells to India with Bharti Airtel.” ip.access is a firm which provides connectivity solution to GSM and 3G services, namely nanoGSM... 

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  • Windows Phone 7 Chrome edition [Concept]

    Windows Phone 7 Chrome – Just don’t get excited by the Chrome edition of Windows Phone 7 because its just a fan made concept of Windows Phone 7 which again most probably won’t be a reality anytime soon as other wp7 concepts. Windows Phone 7 Chrome designed by paperclips from xda-developers is a combination of hardware and Metro UI concept. The... 

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  • NVIDIA-Led Team awarded with $25 million to build up fastest GPU

    The team led by NVidia with Cray Inc., Oak Ridge National Laboratory and six U.S. universities have been awarded with $25 million, for their on-going project, making the fastest and powerful GPU computing system. It is believed that the GPU is 1000x powerful than today’s supercomputers. They have been awarded by Defense Advanced Research Projects... 

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  • Flash now on iPhone, download available

    Remember a few months ago some genius guy ported Flash from Android to iPad? Well…. now it’s on iPhone 4 too. Cydia is full of fun stuff to do, but very few things are left now to do with addition of Folders and Multitasking in iOS4 – don’t worry, there are still some things you can do…like… installing Flash on your... 

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  • Unlock tool for iPhone 4, now available.

    …you know what that means? Well, ahem.. it means you can unlock your new iPhone 4 to use with any carrier. The unlock is called “ultrasn0w”, You can find version 1.0-1 of ultrasn0w in Cydia – ofcourse you need to jailbreak your iPhone 4, what were you thinking? It works for iPhone 4 baseband 01.59 and 3G/3GS basebands 04.26.08,... 

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  • Android hacked, a security team warns manufacturers

    A tool was released on Friday at Defcon hacker’s conference in Las Vegas. The tool could hack an Android device for accessing e-mails and text messages. Nicholas Percoco, head of Spider Labs and his colleague introduced the tool, in order to warn manufacturers (OEMs) and Google, that Android is hackable, and some fixes are needed. Percoco said... 

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  • HTC Desire gets Android 2.2, thanks to XDA

    Can’t wait more for some Frozen Yogurt in this hot summer on your “Desire”? Well, thanks to XDA now you can get some! Android 2.2 FroYo is ported to HTC Desire, it’s a desire to have it. As you would expect, the ROM already comes with some “HTC Sense” topping over the yogurt, making it even more delicious. Darn we make you hungry yeah?... 

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  • Flash 10.1 Ported to iPad, thanks to Android.

    Yeaup thats right, Flash (or is it “Frash”?) has been ported to iPad and iPhone, cleverly from Android. The YouTube video claims (you can see below) that using a compatibility layer, the “Android runtime” can play flash content in safari, pretty smoothly.This magical port is only on iPad so far, iPhone 3GS support is planned... 

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  • WebOS catalog, in a developer promotion slashes off paid apps price by 50%

    Palm announced earlier, and launched it. U.S. Palm WebOS users can now buy any app from the WebOS catalog or Palm web channel half the price. So you can now have apps pricing off 50%. The promotion is, not entirely, focused on encouraging developers for more apps. Though Palm is selling apps half the price, the developers gets their complete retail... 

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