Palm’s PDK to allow porting of iPhone apps
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week, Palm plans to release its webOS Plug-in Development Kit, a set of tools to help developers create graphics-intensive games.
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Default Folder X upgrade address Snow Leopard issues, more
St. Clair Software has updated Default Folder (http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/index.html), its utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS X, to version 4.3.6. The new version addresses issues with Mac OS 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”), Mac OS 10.4 (“Tiger”), Google Chrome and PhotoMechanic, as well as providing smoother and more consistent operation overall.
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Socially-connected mobile consumers find more interest in games on iPhone than the Android
As Google prepares to win over prospective Android developers at next week’s Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco — the largest event of its kind — the latest data from Mplayit (http://www.mplayit.com) from its cross-platform app store on Facebook shows that games are four times as popular among iPhone users than among the Android user base.
BlackBerry users are twice as likely to be looking for game content than Android users, despite the device’s strong business reputation.
Read MoreCS Odessa ships ConceptDraw MindWave
CS Odessa has released MindWave (http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/mindwave), its mind mapping tool for Google Wave. This is a no-charge add-in to Google Wave that can be used as part of Google Wave to map out a strategy or brainstorm on a critical topic.
The ConceptDraw MindWave for Google Wave tool allows teams to collaborate on a mind map in an interactive flowing manner building a map structure that represents the planned work. The map add-in supports Google Wave playback that allows one to step back through a map.
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North by Northeast: I’m not ready for a cloudy day yet
“North of Northeast” is a column that offers commentaries from a Canadian perspective. Google’s invested millions in it. Apple’s moving steadily towards it and Microsoft’s Office isn’t far behind.
Everywhere you turn, more and more companies are extolling the virtues of “the cloud.” My colleague, Dennis Sellers just wrote an interesting piece where he quotes an unnamed executive as saying “Apple want’s to eliminate the hard drive.”
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