Zynga was already the leading Facebook platform developer when it launched Farmville in June 2009.
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.
Our developer platform has already enabled hundreds of thousands of businesses to build higher-quality and more social products.
It also announced it would open its Mobile Developer Platform to third-party applications, mirroring an earlier announcement from Google.
It is the first developer platform to support apps that bring the connected TV experience to all "four screens" (smartphone, tablet, PC and SmartTV).
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion announced today that it is in the process of acquiring Ubitexx, a smartphone security and platform management software developer.
But Flickr, he told the brass, had tens of thousands of users working as editors free of charge, and a developer platform for outsiders to write special add-ons for Flickr.
MySpace plans to follow suit Feb. 5, with the launch of the MySpace Developer Platform, which will allow outside developers to create applications that hook into the MySpace social network.
The Zii EGG is a developer platform, after all, but Creative says the platform is "market-ready" for picking up by OEMs for production -- hopefully they aren't far removed from shoehorning a 3G chipset in there somewhere as well.
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"It needs to be an entire platform, not just a developer kit with an SDK, " he says.
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Continuuity is a cloud platform with a suite of developer tools that the company says enable any developer with standard skills to become a Big Data Application (BDA) developer.
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There had been thousands of handheld apps for Palm and Windows Mobile platforms before, but it took Apple and its structured iOS platform to turn mobile app developer into a calling that one could not only be proud of but get rich from.
Social gaming company Zynga has been moving to bolster itself as a gaming platform, not just a game developer.
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Though the growth of HTML5 has hit a few speed bumps, a healthy 63% of developers are interested in developing for the mobile web, according to a Q4 2012 survey of developer preferences by mobile platform Appcelerator.
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These actions support our strategy to transition from being a first-party web game developer to a multi-platform game network.
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With Ouya, any developer can build on the platform, she says.
"With the new Asha platform, developers will be incentivized to deliver those quality apps, previously found only on high-end smartphones, thanks to unprecedented volumes and reach opportunities through one distribution channel and a single platform, " said Nokia head of developer experiences Marco Argenti in a statement.
Research in Motion may have had a five-year head start on Apple, but they failed to build out a developer community and made the BlackBerry platform too complex for third-party developers.
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By persuading and assisting additional journalism schools to share their adapted curricula in OER format on the Platform, we provide the professor, curricula developer, or quality assurance assessor looking to develop their own curricula with an unparalleled opportunity to easily and intuitively select and compare curricula from near-by or international institutions, in their own language.
UNESCO: Launch of the UNESCO Open Educational Resources Platform
"As an industry leader in mobile gaming, Unity Technologies is constantly looking to improve the quality and robustness of its multi-platform engine and development tools for Unity's developer community, " said David Helgason, CEO of Unity Technologies.
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This extends Azure even further, after a solid year of enhancements to the PaaS platform which included more Linux support and expanded open source developer toolkits.
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The Developer Network was originally established as an online platform to help software programmers around the world reach out and get support when they ran into difficult programming challenges.
Out of the last 65 apps sold through the platform, he estimates that 40 included arrangements for the original developer to commit consulting time.
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It can also be used by a developer who is using the full Pentaho Business Analytics platform to build a formal data warehouse.
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"With the new Asha platform, developers will be incentivized to deliver those quality apps, previously found only on high-end smartphones, thanks to unprecedented volumes, and reach opportunities through one distribution channel and a single platform, " Marco Argenti, Nokia's head of developer experiences, said in a prepared statement.
After all, what better place than Apple's own developer conference would there be to announce a new mobile device platform, hm?
Today, at its second annual developer conference, PayPal announced the release of Mobile Express Checkout, a platform that will allow customers to pay for retail products in stores using only their mobile phones.
The developer's previous title, Halo, helped drive sales for the rival Xbox platform.
Industry-leading developers will have the ability to easily integrate new and existing game titles with the Caliber Advantage's proprietary SDK. In addition, iFrogz will hold a developer's conference this spring, featuring tutorials and workshops for the Caliber Advantage platform.
ENGADGET: iFrogz's Caliber Advantage iPhone 5 gaming case hands-on
He has spent the past month racing to finish an application for Google's Android Developer Challenge--a contest to build cool programs that will run on the nascent mobile platform.
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