Year: 2010

WebOS interface designer Rich Dellinger has left the company (which has been acquired by HP) to rejoin his former employer: Apple.

Dellinger, who was instrumental in developing Palm’s core Mojo app framework as well as the webOS notification system, has returned to Apple, where he worked from 1999 to 2006. As the senior user interface designer for Apple in 2005-2005, Dellinger:

° Designed applications for Apple software products and was responsible for prototyping interfaces, creating animations, developing visual designs, designing icons, and devising new features for future products.

AdMob — one of the world’s largest mobile advertising networks — has posted a response from AdMob’s founder Omar Hamoui on its blog (blog.admob.com) in response to Apple’s updated Terms of Service for iPhone app developers. The blog post follows:

Apple has announced the Apple Design Awards for 2010, which honor the “best iPhone and iPod apps” (in the past, it honored Mac OS X apps as well). This year’s winners included:

° The Financial Times iPad Edition from “The Financial Times”

° Doodle Jump from Lima Sky;

° Brushes from Steve Sprang:

° TabToolkit from Agile Partners;

° Articles from Sopheistication Software;

° 20 Minute Meals from Zolmo;

° Star Walk for the iPad from Vito Technology;

° Real Racing from Firemint;

° Flight Control HD from Firemint;

° Pinball HD from OOO Gameprom.