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Dropbox hosting first developer conference in July

, May 6th 2013 Discuss [0]

What once was just a small startup looking to revolutionize cloud storage, is now a company getting ready to host their own developer conference. Dropbox has announced "DBX," which will be the company's first developer and partner conference, and it will take place on July 9 this year in San Francisco. Read The Full Story

Microsoft entices Windows Phone developers with more payout options

, May 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

Microsoft is continuing to try and entice developers to develop apps for its Windows Phone 8 platform, and this time around, they are bringing new features and statistics to better support their persuasion. It touts an increasing market share (albeit by only 2%) as one of its major selling points, as well as an increased number of first time smartphone buyers opting for the Windows Phone 8 platform (debatable). Read The Full Story

Facebook announces new SDK for iOS with Open Graph and improved login

, Apr 18th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook's looking to ramp up its mobile efforts on iOS by unveiling a new SDK for iOS app developers at today's Mobile DevCon. The new SDK is aimed to make it easier for app developers to create better social applications that integrate with Facebook. The new SDK comes with Open Graph support, as well as improved login functionality. Read The Full Story

Evernote launches Accelerator program to help out developers

, Apr 16th 2013 Discuss [0]

If you're an app developer that builds app around Evernote's API and platform, the company wants to help you out. If you're lucky enough, the company will bring you to their headquarters for a month-long entrepreneurship that will aim to help improve on developers' apps. Evernote is calling the program Accelerator, which is an extension of the company’s existing developer program. Read The Full Story

Dropbox revamps its Chooser feature to include multi-select and built-in uploads

, Apr 15th 2013 Discuss [0]

Dropbox has just overhauled its Dropbox Chooser feature to allow developers to implement even more features into their web apps. The new Dropbox Chooser now allows developers to implement the multi-select and built-in uploads features into their APIs. The multi-select feature allows users who use the developer's app to accept multiple files from Dropbox all at once. The built-in uploads option allows users to upload files, either through drag-n-drop or by browsing their folders, directly from their computer to their Dropbox account. Their files will be available immediately through the developer's web apps. Read The Full Story

Samsung and Mozilla working on new web browser engine for Android

, Apr 3rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Samsung and Mozilla announced today that they're partnering up to build a “next generation” and an "advanced technology" web browser engine, which they're calling Servo. Mozilla said in a blog post announcing the news that the two companies will build a new engine from the ground up, but "rethinking old assumptions along the way." Read The Full Story

Google Drive launches API for realtime editing in third-party apps

, Mar 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

Google Drive is a great little web app, but since there has never been an API for the service, third-party developers have never gotten the chance to integrate it into their own apps. However, Google has finally released what they call the "Realtime API" for Google Drive, allowing realtime editing of Google Drive docs inside of third-party apps. Read The Full Story

Software Engineering Pilot program launches at 20 NYC schools

, Feb 25th 2013 Discuss [0]

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott announced today, at the High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology in Brooklyn, that the Software Engineering Pilot program will be launching at 20 public schools in New York City beginning this fall. The pilot program will offer an extensive computer science and software engineering curriculum to over 1000 students. Read The Full Story

iOS 6.1.1 beta released to developers

, Feb 6th 2013 Discuss [0]

Apple released iOS 6.1 just early last week, and now the company has already seeded the first beta for iOS 6.1.1 to developers. It doesn't seem like a huge update at first glance, but there are some key improvements that are worth noting. Most importantly, Apple has worked on some major enhancements to its Maps app for Japanese users. Read The Full Story

Dropbox introduces Sync API for iOS and Android

, Feb 6th 2013 Discuss [0]

The cloud is a wonderful place, and it makes sense that developers are wanting to get in on the action, especially with Dropbox, which boasts over 100 million users so far. Finally, though, the company has announced the Sync API, which will allow developers to easily integrate their products with Dropbox without the developers having to do a lot of the work. Read The Full Story

Leap Motion giving 10,000 developers free units

, Dec 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

Leap Motion, the start-up company that created an innovative gesture-control technology, is expanding its developer program and releasing a new software development kit, as well as giving a whopping 10,000 developers free Leap units over the next two weeks in order to increase the number of potential apps being released for Leap's new technology. Read The Full Story

Microsoft launches Windows Phone 8 SDK

, Oct 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

Ever since the announcement of Windows Phone 8, eager app developers have been keeping an eye on the release of Microsoft's SDK for Windows Phone 8. Of course, they were waiting a while because Microsoft just launched it today -- the day after the mobile operating system officially released. Read The Full Story
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