apps - News, Features, and Slideshows

News

• RTA launches iPhone app for learner drivers

  Learner drivers in New South Wales can now study for their L-plate theory test via an app developed for the iPhone – all while travelling on public transport.

• Operator mobile app push sets timeline

  The first applications based on the work done by the Wholesale Applications Community will arrive in February next year, but meanwhile developers can get to work in September, the organization said Wednesday.

• Citrix launches iPad apps

  We didn't have to wait long. Citrix has released two apps for the iPad: Citrix Receiver and GoToMeeting.

• Amazon takes wraps off Kindle app for iPad

  Amazon introduced its e-book shop and reader app for the iPad Monday, entering the battle for e-books dominance against Apple's own iBooks store and Barnes & Noble's e-reader iPad app.

• Apple developers, IT departments frustrated with iPad

  Killer iPad apps won't be available at launch because Apple didn't release iPads to most major developers ahead of time so that they could test their apps on the new device.
  

• iPad a “great platform”: Google partner

  One of Australia’s larger Google Apps partners, Devnet, has weighed in on the iPad debate, lauding the latest gadget from Google’s arch-rival, Apple.

• Google talks up App My State

  Google has thrown its weight behind the Victorian Government’s App My State competition announcement earlier this week.

• Victorian Government puts up $100k prize for software developers

  The Victorian government has put up $100,000 in prize money to encourage software developers to create applications which improve the daily lives of inhabitants of the state.

• New iPad means iPhone developers need to think differently

  Software developers already building applications for Apple's wildly popular iPhone are gearing up for the new Apple tablet device announced today, anticipating new opportunities for their software as well as tweaks they will have to make to their code.

• RIM extends BlackBerry app development to Web developers

  Research In Motion (RIM) will preview on Tuesday  technologies enabling application builders to use Web development skills to build programs for the company's BlackBerry smartphone.

• SAP, Salesforce.com make apps with Google Wave

  Google's Wave communication and collaboration platform is getting early interest from enterprise application vendors like Salesforce.com and SAP.

• Unofficial Spotify Android app pulled

  Droidify - an unofficial Spotify app that allowed owners of mobile phones running Google Android to access the online streaming site - is thought to have been pulled from the Android app store.

• Palm Pre apps toolkit fixed for Windows, Macs

  Palm has released an updated version of its webOS Mojo software developer kit, a set of frameworks and APIs for building native applications for the Palm Pre smartphone.

• Android aims for the stars with Google Sky Map

  As analysts go gaga over Android this week, Google is unveiling a high-tech "mobile planetarium" that could catapult the system into a whole new world. Google Sky Map was officially introduced Tuesday, just one day after researchers suggested Android was well on its way to becoming a "top-tier player" within the smartphone market.

• Google Adds Apps Link to BlackBerry

  Looking to increase corporate use of its hosted Google Apps offerings, Google Inc. last week unveiled a tool that's designed to make it easier for users of BlackBerry mobile devices to use its Gmail, Contacts and Calendar software.