Tag: DEVELOPERS

Apple turned a lot of heads this morning when it unexpectedly opened the App Store to apps created with third-party development programs -- including, apparently, those using Adobe Flash. In a news release posted on its site, Apple declared that it would be "relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code." The ...

Yesterday, a harmless teenager from the U.K. suddenly found himself under a flood of Twitter attacks -- all because of an app called 'Twifficiency.' "Twifficiency calculates your Twitter efficiency based upon your Twitter activity," the service's site explains. "This includes how many people you follow, how many people follow you, how often you tweet and how many tweets you read." As with any ...

Take it from Twitter: "Length doesn't matter." It may not be a universal maxim, but when it comes to the size of a link referenced within a tweet, at least, Twitter apparently doesn't believe that its 140-character limit poses much of a barrier. With that in mind, then, the company has begun rolling out its own URL-shortening service in the hopes of enhancing both user experience and safety. ...

Last month, Twitter launched its BlackBerry app. Then, it bought Tweetie. Now, in a move that's guaranteed to stir up more conversation among third-party app developers, Twitter has expanded its mobile kingdom to the Android platform thanks to a brand new app. As Twitter explains on its blog, the new app allows Android users to easily access their timelines via a special homescreen widget, and ...

After debuting last month at SXSW, Twitter's @anywhere micro-blogging service has now gone live, thus allowing all Web publishers to integrate the platform directly into third party sites. As Mashable reports, @anywhere will also feature embedded login/signup boxes, follow buttons and tweet boxes -- all in the hopes of engaging users outside the borders of Twitter's actual site. As Twitter says ...

We've been promised this before, and we're not really sure that the rumors are any more reliable this time around, but here goes: Sources are telling Business Week that Apple plans to open up the iPhone to third-party applications. Currently, running third-party apps on the iPhone is a complex and dangerous operation that can render your iPhone completely useless. The sources presented few ...