Appcelerator — a platform for developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies — has announced updated findings of its Mobile Developer Survey taken of application developers about their plans to build applications for various mobile and tablet platforms. And they find it’s a tight race between Apple and Google.
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Another day, another lawsuit. A company called Microunity (http://www.microunity.com) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in a Texas court against Apple, Google, HTC, Samsung — and well, all the main players in the mobile space.
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R.J. Pittman, a prominent product manager at Google, has left the company to join Apple, reports “TechCrunch” (http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/14/google-product-manager-rj-pittman-defects-to-apple/).
At Google, he has served as director of product management for Google Labs and Google Search. It’s not clear what he’ll be doing at Apple.
Read MoreEternal Storms (http://www.eternalstorms.at) has updated their flickr client, flickery, for Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) to version 1.8. The upgrade adds Google Maps to the search functionality to bring more powerful searches to flickery users.
Read MoreOn this week’s “Tech Night Owl,”Gene Steinberg, the Owl himself, and guests look banishing Google from your Mac, the 2010 Macworld Expo and more.
Author and commentator Kirk McElhearn tells you why he’s working hard to banish Google from his Macs, as he regards the service as potentially harmful to your privacy. That very subject is also covered from a somewhat different point of view by Adam Engst, of “TidBITS” and Take Control Books. Engst also discusses the surprising success of Macworld Expo 2010, which was held without Apple’s participation.
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