Amazon is rumored to be working on its own app store for Android that would compete with Google’s Android Market. Though Amazon has not announced it or made any statements confirming the rumor, SlashGear today got its hands on the store’s terms and conditions for developers, and they seem to sync with the rumors from earlier this week.
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Archive for September, 2010
RIM unveils PlayBook, the long-awaited BlackBerry tablet
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At Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Developer Conference Devcon 2010, CEO Mike Lazardis unveiled the rumored BlackBerry tablet, which is going by the name PlayBook.
PlayBook has a 7-inch screen, 1GHz dual-core Cortex A9 processor, 1GB of RAM, Front (3 MP) and rear (5 MP) cameras, HMTL5 and Flash 10.1 with hardware acceleration, BES and BBM support, e-reader software, 1080p HD video; H.264, MPEG4, WMV with HDMI video output, as well as a totally revamped browser.
Read More...Android Market paid apps coming to more countries
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Android Market, the app store built into most Android-powered mobile devices, is opening up its for-pay section in more countries, mobile analytics startup Distimo said today.
Currently, for pay applications in the Android Market are only available in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, UK, and US. Google recently alerted developers that support for more countries would be rolling out over the next few weeks, and according to Distimo, this has already begun to include Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Singapore and South Africa; doubling the current total.
Read More...Zuckerberg’s new org treats school districts as startups, invests $100M in Newark, NJ
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Mark Zuckerberg, 26 year old Facebook CEO and 35th richest man in the United States today announced his new Startup: Education foundation, which focuses on rebuilding failing education systems one city at a time; treating them as if they were startup companies.
Read More...Bye Bye Blockbuster
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By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
That Blockbuster filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection isn’t surprising. Holding out for so long is the real shocker. I expected today’s filing at the beginning of 2009. This outcome was inevitable and may yet foreshadow future bankruptcy filings from other dinosaurs of the retail analog age, such as Borders Books.
Read More...Facebook Goes Down
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While outages have become an expected part of the Twitter experience, social network Facebook has a pretty good reputation for staying available. Beginning on Wednesday evening, and carrying over into Thursday, the site experienced rare outages that affected not only the main Facebook.com site, but also the elements of Facebook that are shared among other sites, such as the ubiquitous “Like” button.
In addition to API latency issues mentioned on the Facebook Platform site, a statement from Facebook on Thursday said:
Read More...FCC lays new rules for devices working in the ‘white spaces’ between TV stations
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As expected, today’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) meeting introduced new rules about “white space” adoption that allows unlicensed wireless devices to operate in the spectrum between broadcast TV stations.
The legislation to free up these bits of spectrum for unlicensed usage has been in debate for more than three years, and the Second Memorandum Opinion and Order adopted today by the FCC addresses some technical and legal issues in their implementation.
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