Showing posts with label applications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label applications. Show all posts

Monday, March 14, 2011

Google Sites and Google Apps Scripts Integrates, Now Allows Building Custom Applications

Google Sites makes it easy for organizations to create and manage their intranets or external web pages. By making content management available to non-technical users, information is managed by more people making it more relevant and up to date.

Google Sites and Google Apps Scripts Integrates, Now Allows Building Custom Applications


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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Microsoft Opens Kinect To Developers, Get Ready For Cool PC Applications (MSFT)

steve ballmer kinect

Microsoft is officially bringing the Kinect motion-controlled sensor to the PC. The move could help make consumers excited about Windows again.

It's a smart move -- Kinect is the most innovative consumer product Microsoft has created in eons, and hackers were already creating weird and wonderful PC applications that could use it. Instead of fighting them, Microsoft is enabling them.

This spring, the company will release a software development kit (SDK) for hobbyists and non-commercial PC apps to use Kinect. Later, Microsoft will allow commercial developers to create apps for it as well, but it's still working out the details.

The move could rekindle consumer interest in Windows, which is feeling sales pressure from tablet computers running non-Microsoft operating systems like Apple's iPad and Google's Android. While Kinect is a decent little business for Microsoft -- it probably booked more than $1 billion in sales during the holidays -- Windows is still the company's biggest and most profitable product by far, earning about $13 billion on about $19 billion in revenue over the last year.

Now, don't miss: The Story Behind Kinect, Microsoft's Newest Billion-Dollar Business.

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Microsoft Opens Kinect To Developers, Get Ready For Cool PC Applications (MSFT)


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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Is There Gold in Writing Applications for Mobile Devices?

For a few - a few - it's been a path to nearly instant wealth. But for most writing applications for mobile devices has been a break-even proposition at best. And while Loic Le Meur - the founder and CEO of Seesmic, maker of one of the most popular Twitter and Facebook applications - is bullish on the future, he says today's numbers are really quite sobering. The odds against making a reasonable income from a mobile application, let alone striking it rich, are nearly impossible to overcome. Consider:

50 percent of paid apps receive fewer than 1,000 downloads.

  • The average app makes about $2,500, but really only about $500 when the most successful apps are removed from the average.

  • Free apps, those supported by ad revenue, require 50,000 active users (not just downloads) to pay for one full time developer.

  • The problem may not be the app itself, but marketing - or lack of it. Without a marketing budget it remains hidden among the more than 30,000 others in the app store. The skills to develop an app are far different from those needed to sell it.

    --Dino Londis


    Is There Gold in Writing Applications for Mobile Devices?


    Backlink: http://career-resources.dice.com/articles/content/entry/is_there_gold_in_writing

    Monday, December 13, 2010

    Comment on Transfer Applications from iPhone to iTunes by ed

    I love the mac, but apple can kiss my ass when it comes to the iphone. What could be performed with just a few clicks with my previous 'crappy' phones now requires trawling through the net for answers.i.e. how to stick in your own ringtones for one. Now this appstore nonsense. Sync problems, etc, etc. Granted that one can do more with the iphone than previous phones, but advance shouldn't be making what used to be easy, difficult. Steve jobs should get his capitalist head out of his ass and do some thinking.

    Comment on Transfer Applications from iPhone to iTunes by ed


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    Saturday, November 13, 2010

    Webcast: BinaryDads Talk About Building Applications for Windows Phone 7

    In the videolearn how, Jeff and Vineet got up to speed on Windows Phone 7 development and to also learn the meaning behind the mysterious binary message on their t-shirts.

    Sunday, November 7, 2010

    TechNet Wiki: Exposing BizTalk Applications on the Cloud using AppFabric Connect for Services

    With the advent of the cloud and enterprises building cloud-based apps, enterprises will still want to use their existing on-premise apps. Thus, one of the key requirements in building hybrid cloud-based apps across on-premise and on-cloud environments is the ability to use pre-existing on-premise apps.