White House Announces National Day Of Civic Hacking
The gift of coding is often not confined to those who have top grades or the ones coming out of Ivy League institutions. This has been manifest in the fact that we have often seen excellent software solutions from people belonging to humble origins. Evidently, to tap into this potential, White House has now announced the National Day of Civic Hacking.
Facial Recognition Software Claims To Detect Age And Gender From Photo
If you don’t know your birth year or can’t remember what your age is, then you are supposed to be worried. Isn’t it? But don’t worry, when face.com’s facial recognition software is with you. Face.com has invented a software that can recognize you with a photo of your face and can tell your age and gender. It means, you don’t have to undress a baby to know whether it is a boy or girl. Just take a picture of the baby, use the face.com’s facial recognition software and know the age and gender of the baby. That’s pretty cool.
NIKE Reveals FuelBand At SXSW Hackathon
Nike+ had just revealed their latest product name FualBands. This FualBands measures your everyday activity and turens it into NikeFuel. It also tracks each steps and calories burned. If that dosesn’t impress you, it’s also a great watch. It works with a devoted iOS app to measure a wearer’s daily activity levels such as time, calories burned, steps taken etc.
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Nike+ FuelBand: Track Your Everyday Activity App For iOS [Free]
Nike+ FuelBand app helps you to track everyday activity and turens it into NikeFuel. Even it also tracks each steps and calories burned. With the app you can compete with yourself, or share results with your friends to compare, compete and celebrate. Nike+ FuelBand is developed by Nike, Inc. This app is now free for all and you can download this app from iTunes under the Health & Fitness category.
Nvidia And Microsoft Churn Out Tegra 3 Test Machines For Windows 8 Developers
While at one side, Windows 8 is gradually gaining traction, at the other, Microsoft is also working rapidly on it’s plans to have support for ARM-based systems in this new OS. Nvidia and Microsoft are actively collaborating to distribute systems running Tegra 3 chips to Windows 8 developers. These PCs are being distributed to software developers and also to device manufacturers.
Facebook Javascript API Experienced Trouble Earlier, But Started Working Again
Facebook Javascript API is the backend system that allows developer applications as well as Facebook’s own apps to exchange data on the site. Just recently as reported by TechCrunch, it faced trouble that caused all the Likes, Comments and Apps to have been removed for a little while.
Good News For Developers, Windows 8 Store Will Be Allowed Open Source Apps
Recently, Microsoft decided to empower open source movement by allowing apps released under an Open Source Initiative license to be distributed through its Windows 8 Store. In addition, the Open Source Initiative license is more powerful than Microsoft Standard Application License Terms, especially when it comes to restrictions on sharing applications.
Facebook And eBay Announced E-commerce Partnership
Facebook is the world’s largest social networking site. eBay is now making a relationship with Facebook to create new social shopping experiences for Facebook users. They Announced this new partnership for making it the world’s largest Internet marketplace. eBay is integrating Facebook’s new Open Graph 2.0 functionality into its global commerce systems.
Developers Now Can Submit iOS 5 Apps
Apple announced that iOS 5 would be released to the public on October 12th, they have seeded the final Golden Master copy to developers and are now asking developers to submit iOS 5 applications for inclusion in the App Store. Apple has already been quietly approving many iOS 5 applications and this gives developers a chance to test against the final shipping version of iOS 5…………….
Download iOS 5 Golden Master (Dev Only)
Apple has just released the iOS 5 Golden Master (GM) which is likely to be identical to the final version, released to all users on October 12 with iCloud and the release candidate SDK is now available for download by paid devs at the iOS developer site. Now that the Gold Master has dropped, non-developers can look forward to the full version which will arrive on October 12, which will be free and the gold master remains under the terms of Apple’s NDA except for items announced by Apple at their event and on their website…………….
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Download iWork For iOS Beta 4 [Dev Only]
Apple has released a fourth beta build of iWork for iOS to developers, which comes a little more than a day after iTunes 10.5 beta 9 was issued and the beta build of iWork for iOS is available now through the Apple Developer Center……………
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Download Mac OS X 10.7.2 Build 11C71 [Dev Only]
Apple has begun pushing out OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C71) to developers, including the update fixing to Find My Mac related to using a firmware password and improvements to Lion Recovery, which can download only by Apple developers from the Apple’s dev center. The new build includes iCloud Beta functionality and there are no known issues with this build………….
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 Build 11C57 Now Available For Developers
Apple supplied developers with yet another beta build of Mac OS X 10.7.2 as it moves closer to releasing the update for Lion with support for iCloud integration and the latest build is dubbed 11C57 and it is about a 740MB download in its delta form. Apple also began transitioning user accounts from MobileMe to iCloud this past weekend and the 790MB Combo Update comes less than a week after the previous Seed, 11C55. The update isn’t available via the iCloud Dev Center yet and Apple have also requested developers to concentrate their focus on areas such as MobileMe, Safari, Mail, iCal and Address Book………………
Google+ Gets An API
Google+ developer advocate Chris Chabot announced that the first Google+ APIs are now available to the public and the complicated matter of circles and their varied level of permissions is an issue to be tackled at a later date. Developers need to register their apps before they can hook up with Google+ and start making calls to public feeds. There are a few different use cases where this could be employed and Google’s left it up to you guys to make it happen and this the only API available for the time being, but Google has mentioned they will be bringing many more Google+ APIs in the near future…………….
AT&T Foundry Innovation Center Is Opened
AT&T set up shop in Silicon Valley on Wednesday with its Foundry Development Center in Palo Alto, a facility where software and hardware developers can get help bringing their inventions to the real world, the site is AT&T’s third Foundry Innovation Center, following ones opened earlier this year in Plano, Texas, and in Israel. The AT&T Foundry centers represent an $80 million investment from AT&T and it is part of the company’s innovation strategy, which will see the 135-year-old communications giant work with third party developers, venture capitalists and technology solution providers…………….
