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Qt Creator Plug-in & Other New Features, But Wait There's More To Come
By Bob Duffy (Intel)Posted June 10th 20112
We have some cool new stuff to tell you about but I want to preface that by saying, stay tuned in the next few weeks and months as there's more coming. So watch our blogs and forums, as this update is a snapshot it in time and there are more updates in the coming weeks. This week of June 5 2011, ...
Application Signing to be introduced to the Intel AppUp developer program starting July 18th
By Bob Duffy (Intel)Posted June 3rd 20112
Application signing (also called code signing) is a widely discussed topic in the mobile industry. As you probably know, it is a process where developers acquire third party certificates to indicate authenticity and integrity of their software. From an end user perspective, this assures users that ...
Chris Skaggs & Dmitry Rizshkov Awarded Black Belt Status for Intel AppUp Developer Program
By Bob Duffy (Intel)Posted June 3rd 20114
It is with joy that I announce 2 newest members of our program to achieve Black Belt status; Chris Skaggs, CCO/CTO of Soma Games and Dmitry Rizshkov, Principle of Intelloware.  Both Chris and Dmitry have impressed us at Intel.  Both demand a high standard of themselves and Intel. They both are ...
A Growing Garden - Retrospective of MeeGo Conference San Francisco 2011
By Bob Duffy (Intel)Posted May 30th 20112
Photo courtesy of Thomas Perl via Flickr.comI put off writing this post as I wanted to be sure I have absorbed the conference well enough before I posted. For a quick summery we saw some innovative progress with MeeGo and realized there is an unstoppable force with the MeeGo community.  However ...
The magic of the AGK cross platform game kit
By Bob Duffy (Intel)Posted May 17th 20110
Multiple platforms are an opportunity for developers to get their applications out to many users and many devices.  But on the flip side there is a challenge for developers.  How to you port your code to all these different platforms, form factors and app stores.  Smartphones were supposed to ...
New AppUp MSI packager plus more in new program releases
By Bob Duffy (Intel)Posted May 9th 20111
We've recently released some new bits and pieces for the program to make building apps for AppUp even easier. Also some continual improvement with support for evolving technologies. Here's are things to note from the recent release. Enjoy NEW - MSI Packaging Feature for Visual Studio Plug-in ...
TweetCap - MeeGo Flavors Delight
By Bob Duffy (Intel)Posted May 2nd 20110
  During IDF a lot of buzz was created about a 3rd party MeeGo tablet user experience running on an Oaktrail prototype tablet.  I saw many tweets that week about a new MeeGo UI. As noted by Nicole Scott in a ...
Age of Entrepreneurial Engineers - APPNATION 2011 panel with Peter Biddle
By Bob Duffy (Intel)Posted April 28th 20115
At AppNation, Peter hosted a panel discussion of a new age of companies, driving a new model in the app economy.  The following are my notes on the panel discussion.Peter and panel take the stage.  The group is described as a motley crew.Session Leader: Peter Biddle, GM, AppUp, IntelAndrej ...
Intel MeeGo 1.2 Tablet UX now open sourced. This and more now on MeeGo.com
By Bob Duffy (Intel)Posted April 4th 20111
Mid February of this year, Intel released the MeeGo 1.2 Tablet UX pre-alpha to our developer community.  And now a month later we are happy to announce that this release has been fully open sourced, where it is supported and available under the open source MeeGo project at MeeGo.com. At the time ...
New InApplication Upgrade Service - Upsell, Resell & Cross Sell Within Your Apps
By Bob Duffy (Intel)Posted March 29th 20113
In January we announced a new ad services from mOcean Mobile, allowing you to monetize apps by adding an advertising service to your apps.  However the ad service allows you to promote products ...

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