Card.io is offering a software developers kit in a beta program and is already working with MogoTix which sells tickets to events.
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In May, Microsoft released Kineck for Windows 1.5 with an SDK (Software Developers Kit) to facilitate the creation of PC-centric apps for the motion sensor.
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But although it has developed very elaborate tools for iOS app creation with its Software Developers Kit (SDK), its own software has never been a front runner in content creation for the web.
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According to the Google Geo Developers Blog, Google is also rolling out a Software Developers Kit (SDK) for iOS maps that will allow developers to link directly to full Google maps functionality within their apps and also to use a simplified URL scheme to link to specific map locations.
The GM SDK (software developers' kit) also offers a new flexible application framework that will allow drivers to add apps and features to their vehicles after purchase.
It also said it would show a new software kit that developers can use to make programs to distribute through the company's App Store.
It has also created a software kit so other developers can release alternative exercise-driven games.
Qualcomm recently unveiled a platform and software development kit that allows developers to build new applications that bring online and offline worlds together.
The telco plans to issue a software development kit (SDK) for developers later this year.
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Sprint plans to offer a special software development kit (SDK) so developers can optimize apps for simultasking.
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With new releases of Flash Platform tools including an AIR 2.5 software development kit (SDK), developers can build mobile and multiscreen applications for smartphones and tablets, while maximizing design and development productivity.
The last element that will help Apple hit its 2008 sales target of 10 million iPhones is slated to be unveiled Thursday: a software kit that will help third-party developers construct applications for the device.
Sheridan Jones, the director of business-strategy in Microsoft's Kinect for Windows division, said the company has had more than a half-million downloads of a software-development kit that it made available to developers about a year ago.
In addition, the MOGA Software Development Kit (SDK) provides mobile game developers greater precision, robust control and enhanced display abilities while enabling fast, efficient development of rich new game titles and MOGA enhancement of existing titles.
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Apple's engineers were scrambling to revise the phone's software, and the company delayed by a week a software development kit that would open up the iPhone to outside developers.
To enable this kind of development process, Smart TV Alliance will make the first version of its software development kit (SDK) available on its website which developers can download at no cost and use to develop their applications.
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The bulk of the keynote address was taken up by developers showing off applications they'd built for the iPhone using a software developer kit Apple introduced in March.
Peter-Frans Pauwels, TomTom's co-founder and CTO, demonstrated TomTom's navigation software in combination with a specially designed car kit on the iPhone- during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 8th, 2009.
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Macworld may be over, but for a group of developers the most important Apple news has yet to be unveiled: the much-anticipated iPhone software development kit (SDK).
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