May 23, 2013

developers - News


Samsung Integrating Mobage Social Gaming with Android Smartphone

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Shortly after the Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA acquired Ngmoco for $403 million, CEO Tomoko Namba told Inside Social Games that she hoped to quickly quadruple the revenue of her company in about four years, which already tops $1 billion yearly. As unlikely as that ambition sounds, the details of the plan are now emerging. [...]

Rooted Froyo Devices can have “Android 2.3 Gingerbread Keyboard”

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Developers of custom ROMs are already working hard on bringing Android 2.3 to a number of devices, The latest version of Android – Android Gingerbread – is finally official. It’ll make its debut on the Nexus S later this month, and offers a range of upgrades for Android developers and enthusiasts alike. If you have [...]

Apple Launching “Mac App Store” on December 13th ?

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Rumor is going around that Apple might be targeting to launch the Mac App Store as early as December 13th. Jobs himself said that it would go live “within 90 days” back when the iOS-inspired App Store was announced on October 20th, that’s mid January, if the timeframe is carried to its fullest extent.Even though Apple [...]

Unlock iOS 4.1 Baseband iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G Using Limesn0w

The iPhone Dev Team has just released Redsn0w 0.9.6b3 which brings support for iOS 4.2.1 GM firmware file. The highlight feature of this release is SSH and SSL support which will now allow you to install bundles and packages independent of Cydia, which is currently broken on 4.2.1. “We’ve made some updates to redsn0w to [...]

Chevron WP7 Unlocker Tool Decides to Discontinue

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We recently reported on Windows Phone 7 jailbreak/unlock tool – ChevronWP7 Unlocker, since it’s release the developers gained a lot of recognition and were contacted by Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7, to discuss the ChevronWP7 unlocking tool. As a result of the discussion, both parties established a mutual understanding of [...]

Nokia “connectivity analyzer”: Now diagnose & analyze your Data connections

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Nokia Betalabs team introduced a new experimental app ‘Nokia Connectivity Analyzer’, Its a network utility app that diagnose and analyze your device WLAN and Packet Data connections. If you one of those who have hard times to understand why your WLAN connection is not working at home this new utility from Nokia beta labs could [...]

“Genuin software checker” for Windows Phone 7;complicates custom ROMs

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The first big roadblock to Windows Phone 7 modding has been found. According to Conflipper, a former Windows Mobile hacker, Windows Phone 7 devices ship with a “Genuine Software” checker which gives you the screen below if you try to access Xbox Live, Marketplace, Windows Live, or Zune from a device running an OS version [...]

Samsung GT-i9200 firmware leaks-Gingerbread?

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A mysterious new Samsung firmware was posted online today designed for a new phone with the model number GT-i9200. Several hackers are digging through the image files to see if they can figure out what this device is, but the model number is very similar to the dual-core Samsung phone (GT-i9100) that was confirmed this [...]

Nokia’s Ovi Store Downloads Hit 3 Million A Day !

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Nokia yesterday announced that its Ovi Store has reached 3 million downloads per day, a milestone spurred by overall global demand and a recent update that gives users of Nokia’s new Symbian smartphone family a friendlier look and feel as well as more popular apps and games. The company is also gaining significant software developer [...]

Xbox Kinect Headed to Japan

Microsoft finally launching XBox Kinect in Japan this weekend, and Takashi Sensui(MS Japanese Home & Entertainment division general manager) can hardly believe it, in a way. “It’s been two or three years since I first became aware of the Kinect project, but it seems a lot quicker than that,” he told Famitsu magazine in this [...]

Android 2.2 Froyo Update for “Samsung Galaxy S” Releases

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According to numerous threads and forum posts over at xda-developers’ I9000 section, Samsung has finally released an official Android 2.2 update for the Galaxy S In South Korea, the company’s homeland country, the software update was expected to become available for download ever since last week, but it appears that things were delayed a little [...]