Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Real Time Collaboration Brought To You By Mozilla’s TowTruck Project

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

One of the best parts about Google Drive is its real time collaboration. Real time collaboration is only available in Google Drive documents or apps built with the Realtime API though. Now Mozilla is working on bringing that level of collaboration to the entire Web.
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Ready for DevSummit, ArcGIS for Flex 3.2 and What’s new in ArcGIS Online

Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

Esri DevSummit is just around the corner and that means that tons of news and updates will be rolling out of Redlands. This means that its also a great time to poke around the ArcGIS Online resource Center, EDN, and the other community resources from Esri. A number of product updates and announcements have been rolling out from the project managers so I encourage you to spend some time looking around. FYI, those of you not headed to the Springs for DevSummit (no I won’t be there either) you’ll find comfort in knowing that word has it that videos will be released relatively fast from the event so you should have loads of goodies to view next week – be sure to also follow #Devsummit on Twitter!
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Developers Can Now Push Notifications To Users On The Kindle Fire

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

One of the benefits of building apps for Android and iOS is that developers can use push notifications as a way of keeping users engaged. A game can remind players of a special in-game event, or a dining app can remind users that their favorite restaurant is offering discounts. These kind of messages will now be available on Kindle Fire through the Amazon Device Messaging API.
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Developer Console Open To All For Google Play

Wednesday, October 17th, 2012

Google Play is slowly, but surely, growing into a powerhouse distribution platform for Android apps. By that, I mean more and more developers are bringing their previously iOS-exclusive content to the platform. Some of that success can be attributed to Google Play quickly becoming one of the more developer friendly platforms around. The latest release only serves to make Google Play even better.
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New Payments Reporting API Launched By Facebook

Wednesday, August 8th, 2012

Despite how you may feel as a developer towards Facebook, you have to admit they work fast. The company is always putting out new APIs and updates to existing APIs that make the platform a better place to develop on. The newest update should help developers get constant updates on how well their app is doing.
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Mobile 3.0 arrives: How Qualcomm just showed us the future of the cell phone (and why iPhone sucks for this new contextual age)

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

The world just changed yesterday. You probably didn’t notice. But I guarantee strategists at Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google did.

What happened? Qualcomm shipped a new contextual awareness platform for cell phones.
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Five Simple SEO Tips

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

As you go through your work week, and if you’re involved online, you’ve probably received dozens of propositions by SEO (search engine optimization) professionals who guarantee to move you up the search engine rankings if not get you to the top of page 1 on Yahoo.
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Google Collaborates with eNom and Go Daddy to Simplify Domain Verification

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Google has simplified the domain verification process required in Webmaster Tools and Google Apps. The search engine announced that together with eNom and Go Daddy webmasters will have a faster way of verifying their sites in certain Google services. As per the new service offer, customers of Go Daddy and eNom can go through a simple sign-on process and verify their ownership of a domain without much fuss. (more…)

Google Introduces Webmaster Academy

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Google has launched a new educational resource program titled – Webmaster Academy. This program has a set of educational materials to teach beginner webmasters about the workings of Google search and also guide them towards bettering their web sites. (more…)

Post Google Penguin Link Building Tips

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

The World Wide Web is buzzing with ideas and advice to rise back again after being pecked by the Penguin. Webmasters are contemplating on ways to beat the Penguin and we have been discussing for ways of Penguin recovery too. (more…)