In an attempt to edge its way into the crowded mobile payments market, a new credit card scanning system is saying “ah, hell no!” to typing and swiping. Card.io is billed as an SDK that takes advantage of smartphone cameras to let devs accept credit, because, as its creators point out, “typing on mobile phones is slow, and most consumers don’t have a separate hardware attachment .” When it’s time to pull out the plastic, Card.io gets your phone’s camera going, and up pops a little green rectangle, in which you frame your card and snap a pic. Your credit card info is then processed by a third-party merchant, and the details are subsequently deleted from your phone. Can you hear that? That’s the sound of our chubby thumbs breathing a sigh of relief. The Card.io SDK for iOS is now available at the source link below, and an Android version should be close behind. For now, hop on past the break for a video demo. Continue reading Card.io SDK takes swipe at competition with camera-enabled mobile payments (video) Card.io SDK takes swipe at competition with camera-enabled mobile payments (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Card.io SDK takes swipe at competition with camera-enabled mobile payments (video)
June 24th, 2011 
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No Comments »Microsoft releases Android developer poaching package for Windows Phone 7
June 10th, 2011 jedwan Microsoft’s App Guy has quite a job on his baby-soft hands: to boost Windows Phone 7′s numerically-challenged Marketplace by encouraging developers to port apps across from other platforms. The little fellow helped iPhone devs out a couple of months ago with an API mapping tool to makes it easier to translate iPhone APIs to WP7 code. Now he’s extended the mapping tool to work with Android APIs too, and backed it up with a 90-page white paper and a promise to get more involved in developer forums. Will the App Guy’s efforts unleash a flood of new apps for Windows Phone? We don’t know, but we dig his shorts. Microsoft releases Android developer poaching package for Windows Phone 7 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in engadget Tags: 90-page-white, appdevelopers, developers, mapping, microsoft, white-paper, whitepaper, windows phone 7, windowsphonemarketplace, wp7 No Comments »Re: AutoCAD app for freestyle?
June 5th, 2011 jedwan Since the HTC Freestyle runs on the BREW platform, you might not see an application for Computer Aided Drawing (CAD) until the makers of the PC versions decide it is reasonable to develop an application. I believe the AutoDesk recently released their android app only in the last few months. Bentley is still working on theirs. Both have had an app for the iOS for longer. You can alway email the developers of the Android or iOS version you want to use and ask them if they have any plans to develop a version for the BREW platform.
Posted in htc Tags: autodesk, brew, computer-aided, developers, drawing, freestyle, htc, makers, since-the-htc, still-working, their-android, versions-decide No Comments »Lodsys hits devs with lawsuit, $1,000 offer, and 1,000 words of eloquent prose
June 1st, 2011 jedwan Are you sick of hearing from Lodsys ? We know devs are, but the rather outspoken patent troll is at it again, hitting the blog to defend its good name. Hidden among today’s posts is an announcement that the firm is taking the next steps with its accusations, filing a lawsuit against some of the developers it previously targeted and, get this, blaming Apple. It explains: “Lodsys chose to move its litigation timing to an earlier date than originally planned, in response to Apple’s threat, in order to preserve its legal options.” We’re not sure which developers are targeted by this suit, specifically, but the firm has promised a $1,000 payment to each dev, “if it turns out that the scope of Apple’s existing license rights apply to fully license you with respect to our claim relating to your App on Apple iOS.” Devs may be tempted to spend that promised gift on a well-deserved vacation (or a WWDC conference pass ), but with layers of LLCs protecting the man behind the curtain at Lodsys, we wouldn’t be surprised it the firm disappeared before anyone sees a cent (or 99) of payment. Unfortunately, it appears that the saga continues, so if you’ve had enough of the patent troll, feel free to enjoy the rest of our content, Lodsys free . [Thanks, Andrew] Update: We’ve been told that the list of devs named in the lawsuit include: Combay, Iconfactory, Illusion Labs, Shovelmate, Quickoffice, Richard Shinderman, and Wulven Game Studios. Lodsys hits devs with lawsuit, $1,000 offer, and 1,000 words of eloquent prose originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 May 2011 18:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in engadget Tags: apple, apple ios, apple-iphone, appleios, breaking-news, conference-pass, developers, intellectual property, iosdevelopers, iphone, lodsys, paten, patentinfringement No Comments »Windows Phone and BlackBerry struggle to attract developer attention
April 27th, 2011 admin We’re taking this with a grain of salt, since it applies only to users of the cross-platform Appcelerator Titanium development environment, but it appears that Windows Phone 7 is facing an increasingly uphill battle for mobile mind-share. At this point it should go without saying that a platform lives and dies by its developers and, according to Appcelerator, they’re growing less and less interested in creating apps for Microsoft’s smartphone OS. Only 29-percent of devs responded to the company’s quarterly survey that they were “very interested” in putting their wares on WP7, a fall of 7 points from last quarter and far less than market leaders Android and iOS. News is even worse for RIM, which saw a fall of 11-points in developer interest for BlackBerry, and now trails the folks from Redmond. Again, this survey is based only on the responses of 2,760 developers using a particular product, so we’d refrain from calling the results incontrovertible. Still, it reinforces something that even a casual observer could discern: BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 have a tough row to hoe . Two more charts after the break. Continue reading Windows Phone and BlackBerry struggle to attract developer attention Windows Phone and BlackBerry struggle to attract developer attention originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in att, engadget Tags: developers, ios, meego, phone, responses, survey, windows phone 7, wp7 No Comments »HP planning Veer launch party for May 2nd, AT&T brings cake for webOS 3.0 devs
April 18th, 2011 jedwan We still don’t have a solid release date for HP’s tiny Veer — we’ve been told it’s ” coming around the corner ” and will be here ” soon ” — but if we were the guessing type, we’d say that the pint-sized webOS 2.2 smartphone will hit the market on or about the 2nd of May. That’s because a PreCentral reader stumbled across what looks like an official invitation to an “HP Veer Launch Party Event” in Los Angeles on that very date, and it’s typically fairly difficult to launch a handset without a handset to launch, if you know what we mean. Still, this looks like a business-to-business event, so we wouldn’t circle your calendar quite yet — but if you’ve already got that red marker out, you might want to put a X over May 12th instead. That’s the day that AT&T is hosting a webOS 3.0 developer webcast — which might be worth attending in and of itself — but is particularly noteworthy given that HP hasn’t announced carriers for the Veer or SIM-slot packing HP TouchPad just yet. [Thanks, Brian L.] HP planning Veer launch party for May 2nd, AT&T brings cake for webOS 3.0 devs originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in att, engadget Tags: att, calendar, developers, engadget, entry, hp palm, hppalm, hptouchpad, hpveer, invite, palm, the-pint-sized, webcast, webos No Comments »Samsung Galaxy Tab Looks (and now works) Like Giant Cellphone …
November 14th, 2010 admin Hooray! The dream is coming true. One day we’ll all have to only buy one device that works forever for free. Sounds good? XDA Developers seem to think so. This.
Michael Dell: Developing Windows smartphones ‘easier’ than Android
November 2nd, 2010 jedwan Not much detail here, just some vagaries uttered by Michael Dell at an event in Hong Kong. According to Reuters , Mr. Dell said that it’s easier to develop smartphones using Microsoft’s Windows operating system than Google’s Android. Something that he, or at least his developers, should know something about having dabbled a bit on both platforms. Unfortunately, that’s all we’ve got — hopefully more details will be revealed later to give this some context. Switching gears, he also said that Dell would be launching a ” significant number ” of tablet PC models next year. Next year huh? What happened to Dell’s 7-inch Looking Glass tablet that was coming in ” a few weeks ” now more than one month ago? Michael Dell: Developing Windows smartphones ‘easier’ than Android originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in engadget Tags: developers, having-dabbled, hopefully-more, looking-glass, lookingglass, michael-dell, michaeldell, microsoft, wp7 No Comments »Unlocked GSM Palm Pre 2 to be ‘available direct from HP,’ Gorilla Glass on the front
October 30th, 2010 jedwan We’ve been toying with a Palm Pre 2 for a few weeks now, but given that it’s not “final hardware,” we can’t exactly make any firm judgments on the unit itself. Tim Pettitt, product manager for HP Palm, can . In speaking with MarkGuim.tv (and slyly handling a Verizon Pre 2), he not only confirmed that the company was relying on a layer of the famed Gorilla Glass to keep the front as scratch-resistant as possible, but also that the five megapixel camera is capable of capturing a shot every second. More importantly, however, he made clear that it wouldn’t be just the developers nabbing an unlocked GSM Pre 2. According to Tim, that very handset will be “available direct from HP.com,” though he stopped short of saying whether it would support T-Mobile’s AWS 3G band. For AT&T loyalists, however, we’re guessing this may be the best way to nab webOS on the network that’s still rethinking possible. [Thanks, Fuu] Continue reading Unlocked GSM Palm Pre 2 to be ‘available direct from HP,’ Gorilla Glass on the front Unlocked GSM Palm Pre 2 to be ‘available direct from HP,’ Gorilla Glass on the front originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in engadget Tags: developers, engadget, entry, five-megapixel, gorilla, gorilla glass, gsm, hppalm, palm pre, palmhp, palmpre2, pre 2, video, webos No Comments »RIM promises to soothe BlackBerry app developers’ woes, says ‘we’re so there’
October 17th, 2010 jedwan There’s no question that the BlackBerry App World hasn’t been quite the runaway success RIM hoped it would be, but the company is far from ready to throw in the towel, and it’s now promising some new measures to woo new developers and make the lives of current ones a bit easier. Some of those initiatives have already been rolled out — like new payment options — while others including a free analytics service will become available to developers in the coming weeks and months. As RIM’s head of application development, Alan Brenner, explains to The Wall Street Journal , RIM has been working for the past two years to make BlackBerrys more developer friendly, and he now says that “we’re so there.” They may not be quite as close as they think, however, as the WSJ also spoke to a number of developers who used words like “horrible” to describe the current state of things, while leading mobile game developer PopCap Games even went so far as to say that “RIM today is not really on our radar.” RIM promises to soothe BlackBerry app developers’ woes, says ‘we’re so there’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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