Code for America Looking to Hire Diverse and Qualified Candidates for Current Job Openings
Code for America is a new national non-profit bringing talent from the tech sector into public service to help communities solve core problems. The main program run is a year-long fellowship with teams of 3-5 web developers and designers working in partnership with city governments and other public institutions. Fellows design, build and deploy technology [...]
Read MoreAdobe Announces InMarket and Air 2.5 for TVs, Tablets, and Mobile
Today, Adobe announces Air 2.5. Most significant about this launch is support for tablets, televisions, and mobile devices. While Adobe and Apple have been beefing for quite a while now, Adobe still lists iOS as a supported platform in their press release: At Adobe MAX, Adobes worldwide developer conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated Nasdaq: ADBE today [...]
Read MoreWindows Phone 7 OS App Store Off to a Good Start
Windows Phone 7 OS is set to come out and in addition to tightly integrating with its own mobile apps (Office, Hotmail, Xbox, Bing, etc.) has put together a sweet little set of WP7 apps that will launch alongside this apps re-entry into the mobile OS war (believe me, it’s war out there!).
Read MoreDollars for Apps: Microsoft Pays Mobile App Developers
We’ve watched as Microsoft has taken its tentative first steps into the mobile phone market. It seemed like a natural progression from Micrososft Pocket PC PDAs. However, as witnessed through the abysmal reception for Windows Mobile 6.5 and the recent death of the teen-friendly Microsoft Kin, they’re still trying to hit their stride. As the [...]
Read MoreiAd Makes Developers More Money Than Google. Or Does It?
Just as Apple’s iAds went into effect, we heard early reports of developers making ridiculous amounts of revenue from them. One particular developer posted his numbers to the social site Hacker News, showing that they had made about $1,400 in a single day. Obviously, those types of returns had other chomping at the bit to [...]
Read MorePayPal Courting Developers
It started last Tuesday when Markus forwarded an email he received from PayPal. The subject line sent me into a nice long peal of laughter. “Developers: Get Rich or Die Trying”, it read. As funny as PayPal using a 50 Cent reference was, what PayPal is offering is very intriguing. According to the email, the [...]
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