Today at its I/O event, Google announced three new APIs as part of its set of developer tools for mobile development. Combined, the will help applications track user location without heavy battery use, help track users using a number of virtual fences, and track user physical activity with new accelerometer tools. Fused Location Provider rewrites…
Amazon Web Services has announced the creation of a new certification program for its cloud computing endeavor. The company is rolling out several exams throughout 2013 for IT professionals. Amazon has set up a training site to prepare customers. It will provide an approved AWS Certified logo for use on business cards and résumés once an…
On Wednesday, Facebook updated its API that allows developers to incorporate comment replies into tools and apps which it claims will make it easier to “monitor and respond to comment replies.” Facebook unveiled the new threaded comments last week and is now allowing more services to take advantage of it. At that time, only those…
Airbnb just announced that it has open sourced Chronos, the company’s replacement for the standard time-based Cron schedule that is probably familiar to everybody who has ever used a Unix-based system. Chromos runs on top of Apache’s Mesos cluster manager and allows developers to execute shell scripts at set intervals and, unlike Cron, you can also…
Netflix just used the quiet Friday afternoon to announce that it is effectively ending its public developer program. Netflix will stop issuing API keys immediately and will not accept new API affiliates. The company will no longer offer a test environment for developer and its developer portal is already set to be read-only.
Google really wants developers to use the new Google+ application sign-ins it announced last week. As Google+ developer relations lead Vic Fryzel just announced, the interest in the new feature was “significant.” Because of this, the team decided to host a series of in-depth bootcamps in cities around the world. The new sign-in mechanism offers developers…
Apple has released Safari 5.2 Update 3 to developers for testing purposes. This follows the release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3 and Xcode 4.4 build 45155i earlier today. We’ve been informed that this build includes a couple of new features for developers including scalable vector graphics filters and a redesigned web…
Developers are the lifeblood of Twitter’s growth, as the apps that use data found on the microblogging site have helped propel its growth. There are a lot of moving parts though to deal with when it comes to Twitter’s API, so the team keeps in constant contact with the community. The team announced some changes…
File sharing giant Dropbox has warned that users who try to scam its partnership with HTC for 23GB of free mobile storage will be detected and have their accounts closed. Earlier this year, HTC announced a deal which will see Dropbox provide cloud storage for its upcoming Sense 4.0 devices. However, thanks to creative users,…
I’m here in Mexico City representing The Next Web at an event called Apptualizate, where I’ll be speaking about Internet culture and entrepreneurship tomorrow. I’ve never been to Mexico City, but from what I’m hearing there is quite a tech scene developing around here lately. The focus of the tech scene seems to be around…
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