September 10th, 2010
Yesterday, seemingly out of the blue, Apple issued a statement saying it will ease up restrictions for development tools used to create iOS party apps. Now, Adobe has reacted with a statement of its own, calling Apple’s decision “great news for developers”.
Go here for a detailed explanation of what Apple’s… read more
September 10th, 2010
After a summer of searching, Finland-based Nokia has chosen a new CEO: Stephen Elop, the president of Microsoft’s Business division.
Earlier this year, reports surfaced that Nokia was unhappy with the leadership of CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, especially in the realm of smartphones. The mobile giant has lost considerable ground over… read more
September 9th, 2010
jQuery is the premier library for coding JavaScript page effects. Most popular content management packages run jQuery for both admin and frontend design effects. As a web developer jQuery can be a fun library to spend some time learning and offers tremendous design potential.
It seems there are so many references… read more
September 9th, 2010
The New York Times is developing a personalized, social news service, News.me.
The venerable newspaper is partnering with pseudo-incubator Betaworks to bring the product to market. The site is currently nothing more than an inscrutable honeycomb logo, but Betaworks CEO John Borthwick told the newspaper that News.me has already been in… read more
September 9th, 2010
Five months after declaring that iOS apps developed with a cross-compiler would not be accepted into the App Store, Apple has eased up on its policies and reversed course.
Beyond just being less stringent about what sorts of tools can be used to build apps, Apple has also published an App… read more
September 9th, 2010
Bill Zielke is senior director of Merchant Services at PayPal, which recently announced the initial rollout of Mobile Express Checkout. Bill is responsible for the development and marketing of product strategies related to PayPal, and for counseling merchants with product recommendations.
Remember when people debated whether e-commerce was for real? When… read more
September 9th, 2010
Acquiring new customers is a painstaking & costly exercise. You’ll have to run from one end to another marketing or pitching your product to customers. Often times it takes an umpteen number of meetings before you can sign the customer. All the previous calls & meetings with lost opportunities are… read more
September 9th, 2010
Some of the most innovative brands have already begun to experiment with lesser known social platforms that cater to targeted audiences and test the waters of new advertising models. Many of these campaigns are pure trial-and-error efforts, and there certainly aren’t any one-size-fits-all solutions out there.
At the Social Marketers Summit… read more
September 9th, 2010
This post is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark as a new part of the Spark of Genius series that focuses on a new and innovative startup each day. Every Thursday, the program focuses on startups within the BizSpark program and what they’re doing to grow.
A startup can’t hope for… read more
September 9th, 2010
Apple has issued a statement that will be like music to the ears of iOS application developers.
The company has published the App Store Review Guidelines, which should help developers understand why their app has been rejected. In the past, Apple has often been overly strict and seemingly unfair with its… read more
September 9th, 2010
At the end of last year, we published a comprehensive list of web design and development conferences that might be of interest to Smashing Magazine’s diverse readership. Many readers commented and added links to other conferences and events that weren’t listed, some of which were added to the post. Using… read more
September 9th, 2010
Kevin Bachus, best known as one of the co-creators of Microsoft’s Xbox, has joined Bebo as its new Chief Product Officer. The move comes just three months after AOL sold Bebo to Criterion Capital Partners at a fraction of its original value.
Bachus has a long history in the entertainment… read more
