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Wednesday, 18th May 2011

Notable iOS Developer Suggests API Boycott to Fight Patent Trolls

Mike Lee, a Mac developer and former iOS developer with major contributions to Tap Tap Revenge, Obama '08 and Apple's own retail application, has suggested a radical way to fight back against the patent firms targeting mobile application developers with claims of infringement. It's time for an API boycott, he says. Lee calls the current patent…

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Hack of the Day

More Emulator Fun: GameBoy Color in JavaScript and HTML5

Yesterday we told you about a JavaScript-based x86 emulator. Today we found a JavaScript and HTML5 based GameBoy Color emulator created by Grant Galitz. It can open ROMS from your local computer, or from the Web. You can see it in action here, or download the source from GitHub.

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MacroSolve Joins Lodsys in Suing Mobile App Developers

Fresh on the heels of the still unresolved Lodsys matter, a second patent-holding company is now targeting mobile application developers, claiming infringement on its patent for a system that involves collecting data from questionnaires and sending that data to a central server. The company has sued 10 application development firms so far, but…

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Twitter 300 Million Users?

Twitter's rapid growth shows no signs of slowing. As of today it looks like the messaging service has eclipsed 300 million accounts and is growing at a rate of close to three-quarters of a million accounts daily. TwopCharts has the numbers. As of this writing - 7:05 a.m. PST - there were 300,869, 462 Twitter accounts with the service signing up…

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5 Links to Help iOS Developers Understand the Lodsys Patent Mess

Patent-holding company Lodsys has been going after small-time iOS developers, sending them "notice" letters which claim the developers are infringing on one of Lodsys' patents for in-app purchasing technology. Lodsys is demanding that developers license the patent from them for 0.575% of the U.S. revenue generated using in-app purchases. Although…

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