I'm thousands of feet in the air, speeding across the United States, flying from Portland, Oregon to Austin, Texas. When I land, I'm going to send a picture of myself to my nieces back home - but it won't just be a picture of one of their favorite uncles in...
This is a quick Tip aimed at developers by the Nokia Nordic Blog: If you would like to ensure our Nokia N9 users will have a perfect user experience when browsing your web pages, please have a look at the simple instructions below for how to make sure...
What is required to take your family on a cross-country move these days? With four kids, four adults and three vehicles, it isn't easy. You might need almost a full-time IT department to keep everything running, or at least a full-time mediator to broker who is going to get which...
Mobile advertising is exploding. The opportunities for developers and publishers to make money through mobile advertising has grown exponentially in the last couple of years. There are a lot of options to market and monetize apps, but when it comes to advertising, there is still just one company that dominates...
"We want to give users the native experience, as they migrate from their Macs to their PCs to their iPhones and iPads and Android devices. Our application within those devices should behave as they would expect an app to behave for those devices." This from Karen White, the CEO of...
Of people who own smartphones in the United States, 55% use the device for some kind of location-specific task, according to a study published today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. In total, 23% of all American adults use location services on their phones or via social media...
Qt App Developmentfor Symbian & MeeGoAndreas JaklSenior Technical ConsultantNokia Developer 1 © 2011 Nokia Qt App Development v. 3.4.1 August 24, 2011 Andreas Jakl From Your Idea to the Store Distribute: Nokia Store ... and get famous and rich! Design, develop & test Choose development technology Qt, Web, Java,...
Rumor surfaced last week that Samsung, the largest manufacturer of Android devices, may be looking into buying webOS from Hewlett-Packard after the computer company announced it would no longer manufacturer mobile devices. Samsung CEO Choi Gee Sung told reporters that Samsung would "never" buy webOS. This week, new rumors suggest...
Static sites have better performance than dynamic sites, but you lose a lot of features by giving up a content management system (CMS), right? Maybe not, if you have a framework like Octopress.Last week I looked at static sites and cloud services, but even Todd Hoff's excellent coverage put me...
These days, the tablet computer seems to be central to much of Amazon's product strategy. The company is working on a substantial redesign of its website, which aims to simplify the browsing experience for users on iPads and other tablets. The new design cleans up the site's UI significantly, hiding...
It is reported by the website DigiTimes that Intel plans to temporarily discontinue development of the MeeGo OS due to a lack of enthusiasm for the platform from handset & tablet PC vendors, focusing instead on hardware products with its handset platforms to be paired with either Android or...
The Future of the Internet, Flickr's new Geofences and Google AppEngine developers are up in arms in this week's ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web - Internet TV, Internet of Things...
It's been a crazy conference week with VMworld and Dreamforce '11 going on at the same time. News from those shows have been all over ReadWriteWeb's channels this week, like the VMware vFabric Data Director announcement, and CloudStack going 100% open source.We also looked at storing Salesforce data locally, and...
More people are turning to the Internet to watch television shows rather than tuning into the original broadcast, according to a study conducted by Ericsson ConsumerLab. Forty-four percent of respondents said they stream TV shows online more than once per week. While this is by no means a new development,...
His brainchild is SproutCore, a JavaScript library whose goal is to accelerate HTML5 apps on multiple platforms, including tablets, so their execution speed approaches that of native apps. Charles Jolley began work on SproutCore at Apple, and was a key architect for Apple's vision of HTML5: a standards-driven effort that...
Intel is reportedly stepping away from its investment into mobile operating system MeeGo. According to DigiTimes, Intel may be discontinuing development of MeeGo due to lack of interest from original equipment manufacturers and vendors. Has another mobile OS been buried in a shallow grave?MeeGo was initially a joint project between...
Oliver introduces RC Flyers Toolkit Box: The Maemo version is available as well as a Harmattan build. Currently I forgot to make the Harmattan version as mobile friendly as the Maemo one so this will be fixed in the final version. Note: I have no device to test out...
Adding HTTP authentication support to your Qt application This article shows how to add HTTP authentication support in Qt application. In today's mobile world, many of the mobile apps are heavy users of web services. Often you will create your web backed using a web framework, for example Pyramid or Django which will enable...
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has put out a call for comment to the platform's developers. In a note posted on Twitter's developer site he says; "I'd like to ask for your candid feedback. We want to know what additional materials you need from us to help you build products, boost...
Building an Android version of its popular, filter-based photo sharing app is a "a major priority" for the team at Instagram, CEO Kevin Systrom told the Guardian recently. Indeed, this is one of the most frequently demanded features for the app, which notoriously only works on iOS. It may be...
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