The Android Developer Console has been experiencing numerous issues and outages over the past several days, Google confirms. As of this morning, these problems remain unresolved. Beginning March 31, many Android developers began reporting trouble accessing the Developer Console, Google's backend system that allows for the publication of Android Market...
UPDATED BELOW.In Network World's Security Strategies Alert newsletter, Mohamed Hassan details his discovery of StarLogger keyloggers on several different Samsung laptops. Keyloggers record every keystroke on a computer's keyboard and email them to a recipient. This keylogger was hidden and pre-loaded on the computers he tested, making it a significant...
Today, SublimeVideo, a cloud-based HTML5 video player service, is launching commercially with plans starting at under $10 per month. Developers will also have access to a free, unlimited plan which they can use for testing purposes. The service, developed by Switzerland-based development and design firm Jilion, allows Web publishers to...
Update: Amazon has now launched the service described below, under the name Amazon Cloud Drive.Amazon is preparing a music locker service, a website where you'll be able to listen to music you've uploaded from your local collection (or otherwise proven you've bought) now streaming from any computer with a web...
RIM, maker of BlackBerry smartphones and the forthcoming PlayBook tablet, has today announced a partnership with 7digital, a digital media and music store. The new store will offer over 13 million MP3 tracks from Warner Music Group, Universal, EMI and Sony and it will come pre-installed on the PlayBook as...
At this week's Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, Unity Technologies made its Unity Android software commercially available to developers who want to port their existing iOS titles to the Android platform. According to the company, the process of porting a game from iOS to Android can be as simple as...
Mobile VOIP company Rebtel has released results from its latest study on U.S. immigrant consumer mobile usage and behavior. According to its findings, 13% of those who responded said they currently own a tablet device, representing approximately five million Americans.According to the survey, the iPad remains the tablet of choice...
A new report from mobile analytics firm Flurry takes a look at the demographics of the mobile social gaming audience as compared with traditional console gamers - that is, those who use TV-connected gaming consoles like the Xbox 360, PlayStation and Wii. According to the firm (and other data pulled...
Now that Mobile World Congress has wrapped, a number of digital analytics firms have parsed the data on social networks and blogs to determine which smartphones, tablets, operating systems and brands received the most buzz - and whether that chatter was positive or negative, in some cases.A few general trends...
One year after its formation, the operator-led Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), has launched its commercial service. The group, an allegiance of telecommunications firms and others working together to create a common mobile platform, has a goal to simplify the mobile application process for developers, allowing them to deploy mobile apps across...
Apple announced the availability of its new subscription service in the App Store today. This service extends the billing service made available with the recent launch of News Corp's The Daily.That means that subscriptions purchased from within the App Store utilize the same billing system that's used to buy apps...
In December, BroadVision executives met with colleagues from SoftBank, the massive Japanese telecommunications company. What they came away with was a micro activity stream that does what Salesforce.com Chatter does not do. And that's serve as more of a Twitter-like experience for communicating in and outside the firewall.Moving data transparently...
A report that Android has achieved status as the number one smartphone platform in the world has been called into question. According to analyst firms Gartner and IDC, the numbers reported by competitor Canalys are inaccurate...at least for now. Despite 888.8% growth this year, Android did not displace Symbian in...
In an age where digital advertising is becoming increasingly important, Toronto-based startup StickerYou aims to bridge on- and offline marketing with a new service that lets anyone turn their website into a "sticker selling machine." StickerYou lets you upload your own artwork in order to make custom stickers. You can...
The long-rumored Playstation Phone just made its official debut by way of a high-profile Super Bowl advertisement and updated Facebook page. The phone, known as the Xperia Play, has been expected to appear at next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Now, according to Sony Ericsson's Facebook page, the date...
Yesterday's launch of The Daily, Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only newspaper, marked the introduction of Apple's new subscription model - a way for publishers to offer renewable subscriptions to their app-based content. And while Apple is heralding the move as a way for publishers to get more customers, some are uneasy about...
It's a familiar refrain from the music industry: revenue is down and piracy is to blame. That's the gist of the the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's (IFPI) annual Digial Music Report, which points to a slowdown in the growth of digital music sales. While digital music revenue has...
Think the mobile space is crowded now? Just wait until next month. According to Bloomberg sources, Sony is indeed launching a mobile phone, as previous rumors had indicated. The so-called "Playstation Phone" will be shown at next month's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, alongside a new portable game player,...
In an attempt to combat digital piracy, Sony Music and Universal have announced that they will put digital singles for sale the same day that the music hits the airwaves. According to record label executives, the move is meant to combat what The Guardian calls the "impatient X Factor generation"...
Nokia has announced that its free music streaming service originally titled "Comes with Music" is going to shut down in most markets. The service, which was bundled with select handsets from the mobile phone manufacturer launched in late 2008 with the support of the four major music labels: Universal, EMI,...
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