Brandon Watson, a major player in the resurrection of Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, specifically in his work with developers, has taken a job with Amazon. Watson confirmed his departure Friday on Twitter, and ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley tracked down…
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Window Phone developer guru Brandon Watson joins Amazon Kindle team
February 4th, 2012 
Phil Nickinson 
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Tags: amazon, amazon app, Apps, brandon watson, developer, Developers, Kindle, Kindle Fire, microsoft, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7 
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February 4th, 2012 Phil Nickinson Brandon Watson, a major player in the resurrection of Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, specifically in his work with developers, has taken a job with Amazon. Watson confirmed his departure Friday on Twitter, and ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley tracked down…
Posted in News Tags: amazon, amazon app, amazon apps, Apps, brandon watson, developer, Developers, Kindle, Kindle Fire, microsoft, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7 No Comments »[UPDATE: Google responds] Verizon Galaxy Nexus, other CDMA devices, no longer listed with Google developer support
February 3rd, 2012 Kevin Krause UPDATE: The Android Team’s Dan Morrill has posted an explanation for the removal of the Galaxy Nexus and other CDMA devices from the official developer support page. This has nothing to do with Google Wallet (we never thought it did) and everything to do with the way the Android code is compiled for CDMA devices. In [...]
Posted in News Tags: Developers, featured, Handsets, motorola, Motorola Xoom, Samsung, samsung galaxy nexus, samsung nexus s 4g, Sprint, Tablets, Verizon No Comments »MIUI Android ROM is Being Open Sourced
February 3rd, 2012 Quentyn Kennemer MIUI, the stylish ROM which transforms Android into an unrecognizable beast, will be getting open-sourced. That’s right, Chinese company Xiaomi has decided to make the source code for their ROM and applications available to the masses via GitHub, the same git repository that the CyangenMod team uses. They will be open-sourcing individual applications and the [...]
RIM woos Android developers with free PlayBook tablets
February 2nd, 2012 Dan Graziano At last month’s Consumer Electronics Show, Research in Motion previewed the company’s upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 update, which we exclusively reported would land in mid-February. The anticipated update will give PlayBook users the a…
Posted in News Tags: Android, Apps, BlackBerry Playbook, Developers, free, Mobile, playbook, research in motion, RIM No Comments »RIM Offering Free Blackberry Playbook to Android Developers Who Repackage Their Apps for Blackberry
February 2nd, 2012 Quentyn Kennemer RIM’s trying to get things rolling on the apps side of things and are enticing any and all Android developers to repackage their Android applications as Blackberry Apps to be used on the new Blackberry Playbook 2.0 update. The offer? A free Blackberry Playbook. With RIM’s compatibility layer for Android applications developers can have their [...]
AT&T’s Galaxy Note Gets Source Code Released
February 1st, 2012 Quentyn Kennemer The Samsung Galaxy Note for AT&T won’t be here until February 19th (presales begin on the fifth of this month) but its source code is already available for developers to download. This will allow folks to get started on creating ROMs well before its launch but don’t expect to see a lot of that happening [...]
CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0 for the Samsung Epic 4G Available [Video]
January 31st, 2012 Quentyn Kennemer While the original Epic 4G never saw a truly stable release of CyanogenMod 7, the Epic CM team are making a lot of great progress with CyanogenMod 9. The Android 4.0-based ROM brings a stock Android offering for those who’d rather not deal with TouchWiz. An “alpha 0″ build was posted yesterday and it looks [...]
Nexus S 4G Gets Leaked Android 4.0.4 Build
January 31st, 2012 Quentyn Kennemer Those looking for some Ice Cream Sandwich love on their Nexus S 4G should listen up. A new build of Android 4.0 – 4.0.4, to be exact – has leaked online for rooted users. The build for this particular device and release is IMM26. It appears that the build is quite stable but it’s not [...]
Posted in News Tags: Developers, Handsets, Nexus S, nexus s 4g, Rooting, Samsung, Sprint No Comments »Linux and Windows 95/98/XP on the HTC EVO 3D? It’s more likely than you think
January 30th, 2012 Kevin Krause We’ve seen Windows 95 running the on the Motorola Droid, but how about putting the golden child of 90s computing onto something a bit more powerful? Something like the HTC EVO 3D. Thanks to an APK made available by mnomaanw of XDA Forums, we now can. But it doesn’t stop there. Also bootable with minimal hassle [...]
