There’s only a few days left until our My Concept Rules contest to win funding to help build a cool Windows Azure-based app closes. To inspire you, we’ll point out that Azure-based solutions attract all kinds of people, including legendary rock band KISS.
Windows Azure opens up the potential for a whole new world of application ideas — and if you win our awesome My Concept Rules contest, you’ll get the chance to see your own brilliant app idea turned into reality, with $40,000 in backing to get it off the ground, as well as other cool prizes.
A preview build of Android 3.0 is up, for devs eager to start licking some honeycomb. There’s a list of new offerings, but chief among them are support for larger (tablet friendly!) UI design, and 3D acceleration.
For some toddlers today the venerable “toys of choice” are not dolls or blocks, but iPhones. Experts worry their development is hampered by this “screen time.” I’m inclined to argue every generation has its vices and parents need to parent.
The biggest question surrounding the introduction of Samsung’s own smartphone operating system Bada is also the most obvious: “Why?” And while Samsung have a pretty predictable response to that question, the real potential for the platform is not in smartphones alone – it’s in the potential to interact with other IT devices like televisions. I tried out an early demo of this exact application yesterday at the Bada developer day in Sydney.
