Applications

Adobe Systems extended its Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 software solutions to Apple's iPhone and iPad as well as Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and developers can now use the Adobe Flash Builder platform to develop applications. Flash Builder 4.5.1 allows developers to create apps for a variety of popular devices and…

Third party Widgets for Notification Center on their way to iOS 5 via jailbreak and iOS 5 will allow those developers to create widgets for their applications. A whole new Android-inspired pull-down notification system was also introduced alongside many tweaks to the five year old mobile operating system and so is highly likely that we might see…

Microsoft releases Android developer poaching package for Windows Phone 7 and the little fellow helped iPhone devs out a couple of months ago with an API mapping tool to make it easier to translate iPhone APIs to WP7 code. With the next version of Windows Phone Mango, bringing along with it a ton of new APIs, it looks like Microsoft won’t have to…

Pioneer unveils its AppRadio, integrates iOS into your automobile and it features an 800 x 400 6.1-inch multitouch capacitive display, Bluetooth connectivity and it also teams up with your iPhone or iPod touch (running iOS 4.2) via a 30-pin connector and Pioneer's AppRadio app.........

Barnes & Noble announced that a new version of the Nook for Android application was released with support for magazines and newspapers on Android tablets and this update works with 7 inch and larger tablets running Android 2.1 and higher and does not work on Android smartphones. The update also patches up a few bugs for HTC Thunderbolt, adds…

Google gives away 5,000 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets to devs at I/O and it's described as a limited edition, potentially because it looks to be running stock Android without the TouchWiz UI layer on top and will also gives away to the gathered crowd of 5,000 conference attendees.........

Adobe Launches Photoshop Companion Apps for iPad. In April, accompanying the launch of Photoshop Touch SDK, Adobe announced three Photoshop CS5 companion apps for the iPad. Lot of users were impressed with the functionality that could be attained by using a tablet and were left wondering when they could use the apps themselves.

Google reaches 100 millionth Android activation, 400,000 Android devices activated daily and there are now 200,000 Android applications in the Market which have accumulated a total of 4.5 billion installs..........

Google announces Android 3.1, will be coming to all tablet previously running Android 3.0 in a few weeks but the 10-inch Motorola XOOM (3G Verizon Wireless models only) has received the update and the update are a whole host of system performance upgrades and refinement (font changes, placement etc.), but there are also a few new features and…

Research In Motion to kick-off BlackBerry World 2011 has announced two new applications that are coming very soon to the company’s new 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, the first application to arrive will be a dedicated BlackBerry video calling/chatting application and the second application will be a custom Facebook application.Its functionality…