BROWSING: Wireless Application Developers

Palm Inc. joined the application-store bandwagon, launching a downloadable storefront with 5,000-plus offerings for more than two dozen Palm devices.The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based outfit opened the Software Store (available at http://software.palm.com/appstore), showcasing high-profile applications (Facebook, Pac-Man, Tetris) as well as lesser-known products. The store is...

Apple dropped its bombshell announcement in a press release issued late this afternoon. The PR is about Macworld Expo 2009 being Apple's last.

Mobile data is exploding as consumers are flocking to cutting-edge, high-end software platforms like Apple's iPhone and Google's Android. But Everypoint is hoping to gain traction with users - and, more importantly, developers - with a new offering for feature phones.The Boston-based startup introduced...

Faced with criticism over the way it's been grouping applications on the digital shelves of the App Store, Apple this week is making some changes to the store's layout aimed at showcasing a broader range of top offerings in each category.

More than 20 years ago, Lemonade Stand emerged on the Apple II as a means of teaching the children of Generation X basic economics in schools across the country.

Research In Motion Ltd. is stepping up its application-development play with an $18.9 million acquisition of Chalk Media Corp.A member of the BlackBerry ISV Alliance Program, Chalk's technology delivers multimedia files to groups within businesses and other organizations. The deal includes a $2.2 million...

Sprint Nextel Corp. continued to woo desktop developers with the launch of an open software platform in advance of its annual Application Developer Conference later this week.The platform promises to help computer developers bring their wares to wireless using the same codes, tools and...

Apple's new promotional codes allow you to send out your application for review without having to juggle with Ad Hoc distribution or buying an iTunes credit for reviewers; each of these previous two approaches has proved something of a hassle.

An open-source mobile operating system from the Symbian Foundation won't be ready until 2010. In the meantime, it must find a way to crack America.

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Adobe has made its Flash technology compatible with the Android smartphone operating system developed by the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance . Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch demonstrated Flash Player 10 running on Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Android platforms — but no iPhone.

Google added voice searching technology to its iPhone application by using techniques that are supposed to be off limits to third-party developers, according to a pair of reports.

This year may well mark "a turning point in the mobile gaming industry," as Gameloft insisted last week. But for most wireless-game makers, there will be plenty more storm before the calm.The Paris-based publisher made the claim last week as it posted $34.1 million...

Antivirus developer SMobile released software this week to protect users of the G1 Android phone, although one security analyst wondered if people really need it.

The software maker provides the clearest public confirmation yet of when its ship target is for the successor to Windows Vista.

Some of the new applications loaded to the Android Market since it opened on Monday don't work very well, crash the phone, aren't particularly elegant and in one case, uses commands written in Chinese.

Job seekers struggling to land gigs during the economic downturn are going to wish they had iPhone programming skills.

If this keeps up, content owners may forget the whole "on-deck vs. off-deck" argument. Instead, they'll be trying to figure out which mobile application stores' shelves they want to stock.Google Inc. is the latest player in the app-store game, launching its Android Market last...

BOSTON - What would a next-generation mobile Internet show be without some discussion about openness? During keynote presentations at the Mobile Internet World 2008 event, Sprint Nextel Corp.'s VP of corporate strategy, Russ McGuire, and Verizon Wireless' VP of open development, Anthony Lewis, spelled...

BOSTON - Futuremark Corp. is hoping to topple the bar set by Apple Inc.'s iPhone by taking the mobile user interface into the third dimension. The software company announced a new graphics software engine, dubbed Kanzi, that it said will allow handset makers to...

BOSTON - A day after the release of the first cellphone powered by Google Inc.'s Android software, the founder of the startup that initially developed the software took the Mobile Internet World keynote stage to explain the reasons behind the search giant's much-hyped effort."It's...

BOSTON - It's a busy time for T-Mobile USA Inc.The carrier is in the midst of rolling out its 3G network, it is launching the world's first Google Inc.-powered cellphone, and it is overhauling its interactions with application developers. The goal, of course, is...

Can import EclipseME and NetBeans projects. Seeking to establish Eclipse as the standard mobile development platform, the Eclipse Foundation on Wednesday offered the first major release of its Eclipse Mobile Tools for Java Project (MTJ).

An uproar erupted when iPhone users discovered a so-called remote kill switch on their phones -- will it spur the same reaction in users of the G1, the first Android phone?