Email-based FaceTime support surfaces in iOS 4.1 beta 3
Posted on 07. Aug, 2010 by IBM.
Fool us once, shame on us. Fool us twice? Fuhgetaboutit. Apple has a thing for introducing new iPods each fall, and given that the existing touch is being given away gratis with a new student computer (not to mention how long in the tooth it is), we’r…
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iOS 4.1 beta 3 breaks loose (update: Game Center killed on iPhone 3G and second gen iPod touches)
Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by IBM.
Member of the illustrious iPhone Developer Program? Well, aren’t you special? So special, in fact, that you’re once again being granted access to a highly-coveted iOS build that the unwashed commoners can’t get: yet another beta of iOS 4.1. This time …
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New Facebook Beta for webOS (v1.2.30) adds landscape viewing, inline comments
Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
A few iterations beyond the last time we checked in, the Palm webOS Facebook app is now up to beta version 1.2.30. New features this time around include landscape viewing, improved photo tagging, and the ability to clear all notifications by selecting…
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Swiftkey beta brings new keyboard, world class predictive text to Android
Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
The software and language engineers at Swiftkey have been toiling on this app for the past two years, and at long last, it’s being made available for precisely nothing to anxious Android users. Hot on the heels of Swype’s own beta, the Swiftkey beta i…
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Apple’s MobileMe iDisk App updated for iPad, redesigned Calendar goes beta
Posted on 07. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
Too lazy to cancel your $99 MobileMe automatic subscription renewal and make the jump to one of the many free alternatives? Don’t worry, your lethargy has paid off this morning as Apple introduces its new MobileMe iDisk 1.2 app and a beta version of i…
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Microsoft Tag comes out of beta, promises free colorful codes for all
Posted on 28. May, 2010 by IBM.
It was about a year and a half ago that Microsoft decided it could do QR codes better, that any universal coding system needed a dash of color, and launched Tag. Now, the roughly one billion Tags that users have printed have been made a little less illegitimate, with Microsoft bringing the service out of beta and taking the opportunity to toot Tag’s trumpet a bit. The codes have appeared in 20 million magazines so far and have recently been deployed to create a sort of tour for geeks in Amsterdam (no word on whether our own international man of mystery is featured). Meanwhile America’s cultural hub, the Mall of America, has been similarly bestickered to “enhance customer engagement,” but based on our previous experiences at that bastion of commercialism we’re thinking scooters and foot massages might have been more effective.
Microsoft Tag comes out of beta, promises free colorful codes for all originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 13:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Wikitude Drive AR nav app beta announced, available in Android Market (video)
Posted on 20. May, 2010 by IBM.
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Wikitude Drive AR nav app beta announced, available in Android Market (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 17:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPhone OS 4 beta 4 drops in
Posted on 18. May, 2010 by IBM.
If you like living on the brutal, life-altering bleeding edge the same way we do, odds are you’ve got iPhone OS 4 beta 3 installed on that 3GS of yours — assuming you have an iPhone 3GS, naturally. That also means that you’ll likely be interested to hear that beta 4 is now out and ready for you to download, install, and not brick your phone if everything goes according to plan, just as long as you’ve got access to an Apple iPhone Developer Program account. Go forth, intrepid readers — and do report back on your exploits, won’t you?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
iPhone OS 4 beta 4 drops in originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 20:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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SlingPlayer Mobile for Android goes to private beta?
Posted on 06. May, 2010 by IBM.
Android’s quickly becoming the elephant in the room for Sling Media, so we’re delighted to hear today that the promised Android client of SlingPlayer Mobile is apparently entering a private beta period as we speak — according to a tipster over at Phandroid, anyhow. It seems that some members that signed up to Sling’s beta program have been contacted recently with a link to the download and a request that they not discuss the app or the beta program (so much for that), so if everything goes really, really well, we might see a release before too long. The thought of this thing running on the EVO 4G just blows minds, doesn’t it?
SlingPlayer Mobile for Android goes to private beta? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 May 2010 13:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPhone OS 4 beta 3 brings iPod widgets to the dock
Posted on 04. May, 2010 by IBM.
Apple may have pulled iPhone OS 4 beta 3 soon after it went live, but we’re living recklessly — and hey, is that a set of iPod controls and a screen orientation lock hiding out in the app switcher? The control is accessed by swiping to the far left, and it all does pretty much what you’d expect. That’s good news, since we were missing the old pop-up iPod controls pretty badly. We’re hunting around for more new stuff, we’ll let you know if we find anything.
iPhone OS 4 beta 3 brings iPod widgets to the dock originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 May 2010 18:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 is ready for your scrutiny (update: it’s back!)
Posted on 04. May, 2010 by IBM.
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_OS_4_0_beta_3_is_ready_for_your_scrutiny’; The last time Apple dropped a release of iPhone OS 4.0, it left more than a few downloaders in crumpled heaps on the floor, sobbing quietly to themselves as they tried desperately to come to terms with the fact that their beloved iPhones were far less usable than they had been just a few minutes prior. Well, we don’t know yet if beta 3 is any better, but it’s here — and if you’re a member of Apple’s iPhone dev program, it’s ready for you to install. So yeah — take care, good luck, godspeed, be prepared for the worst, and hope for the best. Let us know how it goes in comments, yeah?
Update: And… it’s been pulled. Good thing we just restored our phone. We’ll let you know if and when it comes back.
Update 2: Turns out you can still access the firmware with a little creative URL hackery — but you’ve still got to be an iPhone dev program member, naturally. Thanks, Brian!
Update 3: Reports are coming in that it’s back and available without any trickery!
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 is ready for your scrutiny (update: it’s back!) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 May 2010 14:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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webOS update coming soon, PDK apps likely to land
Posted on 02. May, 2010 by IBM.
Well, what have we here? A friendly tipster, who just so happens to be a registered Palm developer, has sent us the latest informational email from the recently-swallowed outfit, and while the tone here may be gentle, the implications are certainly serious. According to the memo, a new webOS update is “coming soon,” and developers are being alerted that they’ll need to be prepared to test their apps when it hits. Sometime early this month, devs will receive a specific launch date for the SDK release candidate, and while we’re told that the “scope of the changes in this [forthcoming] update is limited,” it’ll be particularly important for coders to “test PDK apps against this release candidate.” Seems like that promise of seeing PDK apps hitting the Catalog by mid-year is on track, acquisition be darned.
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webOS update coming soon, PDK apps likely to land originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 May 2010 00:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Symbian^3 web app development tools come out of beta, aim for standardized simplicity
Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by IBM.
Has the Nokia N8 made a Symbian^3 believer out of you? If so, you’ll be glad to know the beta tag has been peeled off the web application development tools for the platform, which — according to Executive Director Lee Williams — provide “an ideal entry point” for coders of all skill levels. This is because the primary languages spoken are HTML, CSS and JavaScript, familiar to almost anyone who’s tried to create for the web, and with just a little extra JavaScript exercise, you’re promised access to the phone’s contacts, camera, accelerometer, and location. It sounds all kinds of refreshing, but the usefulness of this tool set and the entire environment will be determined by what people produce with it — and to that end we’ve provided you with a link to the downloads page (Windows, Mac and Linux users are all being served) where you can get your Symbian dev career started in earnest.
Symbian^3 web app development tools come out of beta, aim for standardized simplicity originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Firefox 1.1 beta for Maemo goes live
Posted on 29. Apr, 2010 by IBM.
The N900 already features one of the best pocket browsing experiences we’ve ever seen, but it looks to be getting a whole lot better today with the beta release of Firefox 1.1. Major new features include portrait browsing (awesome), form auto-complete, a context menu, volume key zoom, and — this is pretty neat — the capability to save pages straight to PDF, so it seems like the kind of thing you’ll definitely want to download, even if it’s not quite solid enough to earn gold build status. Oh, and if you don’t have an N810 or N900 handy and you’re amped to play around, you can download the little guy for Windows, Mac OS, or Linux, too.
Firefox 1.1 beta for Maemo goes live originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPhone OS 4 jailbreak released to developers, not you
Posted on 16. Apr, 2010 by IBM.
Be clear on this: if you’re not a jailbreak app developer then the redsn0w 0.9.5 beta release is not for you. The iPhone OS 4 jailbreak previously hinted at is for real and it’s for devs only so that they can prep their wares for the summer update. Don’t worry, it doesn’t reveal anything new to Apple and no, it won’t work on the iPad — it’s Mac OSX only, iPhone 3G only, and iPhone 4.0 beta 1 only for now. But hey, it’s early days, at least you know it’s out there and that people smarter than you are tending to things.
iPhone OS 4 jailbreak released to developers, not you originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Rhapsody now available to all comers on Android
Posted on 06. Apr, 2010 by IBM.
Following a limited beta, Rhapsody is using the occasion of its newfound independence from RealNetworks to launch the public version of its Android-based client. Technically, this is still a beta that we’re dealing with here, so the big difference is that anyone that wants to download and use it is more than welcome to — it’s not the on-the-downlow affair we were dealing with before. Folks new to the all-you-can-eat subscription service are welcome to check out a trial for 7 days, after which point you’ll be paying the same $10 a month for access from one device or $15 for access from up to three that everyone else pays — arguably not bad for a 9 million song library, assuming you’ve got a taste for anything other than live Fugazi bootlegs.
Rhapsody now available to all comers on Android originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Firefox for Mobile (Fennec) escapes in a rough Android port
Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by IBM.
It’s slow, jerky, and may not even work on your Android device after installing the 41MB package. But it’s FireFox for Mobile (aka, Fennec) on Android, brother, and isn’t that worth the hassle? Based on our experience with it on the N900, the only gold platform at the moment, it most definitely is. MartinSchirr of Android Forums is credited with the port and it’s your best option until the cats at Mozilla issues a formal Android release (currently in Pre-Alpha) later this year as expected. Check the video after the break if you want to experience it right now, mess free.
[Thanks, Will]
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Firefox for Mobile (Fennec) escapes in a rough Android port originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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