In September, the company hired a new Vice President of Developer Relations, Alec Saunders.
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But as part of its internal shakeup, RIM has drastically revamped its developer relations program.
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Besides Heins, presenters include Alec Saunders, vice president of developer relations, and Martyn Mallick, vice president of global alliances.
Google hired Gundotra in June, a prize poach of a man who'd spent 15 years running both developer relations and Microsoft's Internet computing strategy.
Attendees also speak highly of the technologists, such as Vice President of Developer Relations Alec Saunders, that RIM has brought in as it replaces its core technology.
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Alex Saunders, VP of Developer Relations, spoke about the amazing global developer support with 15, 000 apps being submitted in one weekend and another 19, 000 in the following week.
"We are very excited to offer so much new content for PSP this year, particularly in this bite-sized form, " said Zeno Colaco, Vice President, Publisher and Developer Relations, SCEE.
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Hewlett Packard is reeling from the loss of a couple of the key developer relations people it picked up with the acquisition of Palm, but will soon be back with more.
Google's Cloud Platform Developer Relations team is spearheading a project called the Data Sensing Lab, which utilizes a network of Arduino sensors to collect ambient data and translate it into easily understood visualizations.
Google hired Gundotra in June, a prize poach of a man who'd spent 15 years running both developer relations and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s Internet computing strategy.
"It was the first phone with a really good mobile Web browser, and we saw five times the average usage of things like Google Maps and YouTube" compared with online habits, says Vic Gundotra, Google's head of mobile developer relations.
Other departures from HP in recent months include former webOS guru Sam Greenblatt, security sales leader Alan Kessler, Autonomy founder and CEO Mike Lynch (whose company was acquired by HP and whose accounting practices are currently under a legal microscope), and developer relations specialist Richard Kerris.
The idea, says Buell Duncan III , IBM's general manager for ISV and developer relations, is to create a network of companies large and small, which are conversant in both nonproprietary, or open, computing standards, like the Linux operating system or the Java programming language, and IBM's suite of hardware, middleware and services.
Shepherd and Luckyanova have hired support, marketing, and public relations help, but for the game design itself they simply hired several friends from the independent developer community to work part time on the art and programming.
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