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Bob Duffy (Intel)

Intel Atom Developer Community Manager & Social Media Strategist. My first PC was a Commodore Vic20. With the upgrade pack I was writing 8K programs stored on a cassette tape drive. I did a lot of fun graphic applications writing code that drew cubes and animated them on the screen. I started my professional career in marketing & graphic design, then made the transition to IT work in the late 90's. After 2 brief years as a VP bigshot for two dot coms, I started my own company in 2001 doing web applications and design. (lots of Photoshop, & ColdFusion, and Sculpt4D work). I eventually landed at Intel in Corporate Marketing managing intel.com's social media strategy. I am now happy to be back on the software side of things supporting AppUp and the Atom Developer Program Outside of work, if I'm not online, gaming, or watching LOST reruns on my DVR I probably have a sketch pad in my hand and am doodling a cartoon.

Intel at CES 2012 – the skinny, with a little fat

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on January 13, 2012 at 1:28 pm
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 OK, I have to say it, I’m way impressed with some of what I’m seeing and some of what I’m hearing at CES regarding Intel technologies.  It’s a lot for me to take in but I’ll do my best to give you guys a highlight of Intel at CES 2...

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The Intel AppUp SDK, now optional for Windows apps

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on January 2, 2012 at 1:32 pm
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I'm excited to announce that the Intel AppUp(SM) developer program has officially relaxed our requirement of integrating our SDK for Windows apps submitting to AppUp. While this SDK requirement had been optional for MeeGo apps, we had until now require...

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New Consumer ID & In-App Unlock Purchase APIs for AppUp developers

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on December 15, 2011 at 12:52 pm
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The holiday season is always full of cheer and giving, and in that spirit the Intel AppUpSM developer program has a few presents under the tree for our developers.  The following items have officially launched to enhance and aid app developme...

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Show 11 - AppUp show at Sprint conference part 2

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on December 1, 2011 at 5:00 pm
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The case for comprehensive mobile computing & PC app stores

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on November 3, 2011 at 10:37 am
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After my first day here at the Sprint Open Solutions Developer Conference in Santa Clara, and 5 hours of booth duty behind me(whew), I'm getting a strong feeling that the idea of a PC app store is becoming more intuitive with increasing ethusiasm for t...

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AppUp Strategy for Tizen, Ultrabooks, & HTML5 explained

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on October 2, 2011 at 4:19 pm
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The following video is courtesy of NetbookNews's YouTube Channel

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AppUp Strategy for Tizen, Ultrabooks, & HTML5 explained

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on October 2, 2011 at 4:19 pm
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The following video is courtesy of NetbookNews's YouTube Channel

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AppUp Strategy for Tizen, Ultrabooks, & HTML5 explained

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on October 2, 2011 at 4:19 pm
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New Tizen™ platform from Linux Foundation & LiMo with support from Intel AppUp

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 27, 2011 at 8:38 pm
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We are excited about the Linux Foundation & LiMo announcement of the Tizen™ platform, and the role AppUp will be playing. Tizen combines the best of LiMo & MeeGo to create an open source cross device platform with support from Intel AppUp de...

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New Tizen™ platform from Linux Foundation & LiMo with support from Intel AppUp

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 27, 2011 at 8:38 pm
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We are excited about the Linux Foundation & LiMo announcement of the Tizen™ platform, and the role AppUp will be playing. Tizen combines the best of LiMo & MeeGo to create an open source cross device platform with support from Intel AppUp de...

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New Tizen™ platform from Linux Foundation & LiMo with support from Intel AppUp

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 27, 2011 at 8:38 pm
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We are excited about the Linux Foundation & LiMo announcement of the Tizen™ platform, and the role AppUp will be playing. Tizen combines the best of LiMo & MeeGo to create an open source cross device platform with support from Intel AppUp de...

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New Tizen™ platform from Linux Foundation & LiMo with support from Intel AppUp

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 27, 2011 at 8:38 pm
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We are excited about the Linux Foundation & LiMo announcement of the Tizen™ platform, and the role AppUp will be playing. Tizen combines the best of LiMo & MeeGo to create an open source cross device platform with support from Intel AppUp de...

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New Tizen™ platform from Linux Foundation & LiMo with support from Intel AppUp

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 27, 2011 at 8:38 pm
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We are excited about the Linux Foundation & LiMo announcement of the Tizen™ platform, and the role AppUp will be playing. Tizen combines the best of LiMo & MeeGo to create an open source cross device platform with support from Intel AppUp de...

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Developing Apps Across the Compute Continuum - Panel discussion from IDF

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 23, 2011 at 1:27 pm
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At IDF we were fortunate to pull together our Black Belts for a discussion on how to best approach building apps across the compute continuum. I moderated the discussion with Andreas Breitschopp, Suresh Kumar, Lee Bamber, Rick Vanner and Chris Skaggs...

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An App Developer View of IDF2011

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 16, 2011 at 9:42 am
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This year at IDF I set out to look at the show as an application developer; to see if there is something to glean from the news, announcements and technologies that will have meaning or impact to an app developers.  However, note, IDF is not a app...

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HTML5! HUH! What is it good FOR! Absolutely...

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 6, 2011 at 9:26 am
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Depending on your point of view that ends with either "nothing" or "everything" and there seems not to be much in between with regard to opinions on HTML5.  The camps seem to be forming.  While some believe HTML5 is the coming of the source...

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AppUp Encapsulator broadens services with Javascipt API for local storage and full screen apps

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 1, 2011 at 11:39 am
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The Intel AppUp Encapsulator service has been a pretty cool thing for the Intel AppUpSM developer program.  For those unfamiliar with it, it take HTML files and packages them with our SDK.  This auto integrates our digital rights management s...

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Welcome Adobe InMarket AIR developers to the AppUp developer program

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on August 31, 2011 at 10:00 pm
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While AIR* development is not new to the Intel AppUpSM developer program, we are welcoming AIR developers who were part of the Adobe* InMarket* service which recently shutdown. As part of that shutdown our team has been working with Adobe to transfer a...

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AppUp powered store, pre-installed on ASUS - Video

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on August 23, 2011 at 11:11 am
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The Intel AppUpSM developer program slogan is, "multiple devices, multiple OS', multiple app stores; one program". Along those lines we've been working to get AppUp as a framework for retailers, service providers and device manufacturers. Currently ...

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AppUp powered store, pre-installed on ASUS - Video

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on August 23, 2011 at 11:11 am
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The Intel AppUpSM developer program slogan is, "multiple devices, multiple OS', multiple app stores; one program". Along those lines we've been working to get AppUp as a framework for retailers, service providers and device manufacturers. Currently ...

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July Update - Power Management, Code Signing, & Tablet Best Practices

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on July 18, 2011 at 7:25 am
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With July comes summer weather, bbq's, fireworks and block parties.  For the AppUp developer program we have our own brand of fireworks and summer fun via new program requirements and guideline to aid developers in delivering great apps to AppUp. ...

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July Update - Power Management, Code Signing, & Tablet Best Practices

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on July 18, 2011 at 7:25 am
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With July comes summer weather, bbq's, fireworks and block parties.  For the AppUp developer program we have our own brand of fireworks and summer fun via new program requirements and guideline to aid developers in delivering great apps to AppUp. ...

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Announcing power management and background app designation for MeeGo apps

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on July 18, 2011 at 7:13 am
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Early MeeGo devices supporting a compute continuum

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on July 1, 2011 at 1:45 pm
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For roughly 9 months now the Intel AppUpSM developer program has been discussing this notion of a compute continuum, that looks at a broad set of devices from phones, tablets, PC, TVs, etc that are now computing devices. I think we first saw this at...

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MeeGo Application Design Guidelines Now Available

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 22, 2011 at 8:09 am
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The topic of good app design is fast becoming an interest of mobile developers.  For even the most experienced developers UX and UI design are mysterious waters.  However, there is a bit more science to this than one might thi...

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Application Signing to be introduced to the Intel AppUp developer program starting July 18th

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 3, 2011 at 2:39 pm
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Application 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...

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Application Signing to be introduced to the Intel AppUp developer program starting July 18th

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 3, 2011 at 2:39 pm
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Application 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...

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Application Signing to be introduced to the Intel AppUp developer program starting July 18th

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 3, 2011 at 2:39 pm
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Application 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...

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Application Signing to be introduced to the Intel AppUp developer program starting July 18th

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 3, 2011 at 2:39 pm
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Application 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...

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Chris Skaggs & Dmitry Rizshkov Awarded Black Belt Status for Intel AppUp Developer Program

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 3, 2011 at 2:36 pm
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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 ...

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A Growing Garden - Retrospective of MeeGo Conference San Francisco 2011

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on May 30, 2011 at 9:30 pm
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I 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.  How...

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The magic of the AGK cross platform game kit

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on May 17, 2011 at 12:53 pm
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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 fa...

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New AppUp MSI packager plus more in new program releases

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on May 9, 2011 at 11:39 am
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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. Enjoyread more

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TweetCap - MeeGo Flavors Delight

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on May 2, 2011 at 6:19 pm
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  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 post about this UI, she noted it ...

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Age of Entrepreneurial Engineers - AppNation panel with Peter Biddle

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on April 28, 2011 at 12:51 pm
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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.read...

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Intel MeeGo 1.2 Tablet UX now open sourced. This and more now on MeeGo.com

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on April 4, 2011 at 10:17 am
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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 o...

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New InApplication Upgrade Service - Upsell, Resell & Cross Sell Within Your Apps

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on March 29, 2011 at 6:38 pm
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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 & services outside of AppUp.read more

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New Flat Fee Component Forum

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on March 29, 2011 at 6:17 pm
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We've launched a new way for developers and others in the AppUp ecosystem to market tools, services and components to AppUp developers with a new forum called the Flat Fee Component, Tools & App Services Forum.   Think of this like a Cra...

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TweetCap - Linpus MeeGo Touch, Glow on WeTab, Concept Tablet UI Brought to Life

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on March 21, 2011 at 12:37 pm
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Tweet TweetCap is a look back at recent tweets and links shared by us or our friends in the community. Todays tweetcap look at some cool stuff happening with MeeGo including the Linpus Lite Touch E...

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Join AppUp team for breakfast Texas style at SXSW

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on March 7, 2011 at 5:33 pm
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The Intel AppUp developer program is hosting a breakfast event during SXSW for app developers on Saturday March 12th at 9am at Blue Ribbon Barbeque. read more

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Twitter, Meetups, & App Labs build community

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on March 4, 2011 at 5:15 pm
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AppUp Round-Up: Pinball HD

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on March 1, 2011 at 10:18 am
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Pinball HD is a recent addition to the Intel AppUp Center. Pinball HD comes to us as a very popular iOS game, and has been in the top 5 downloaded apps for the iPhone & iPad since it launched. And like Angry Birds it makes it debut on the PC fro...

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AppUp developer meetup @ GDC

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on February 25, 2011 at 12:35 pm
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Rhonda & I will be hosting a meetup at GDC at the Bin 55 lounge in the Marriott Marquis.  We'd like any developers who will be attending GDC to come by and meet us and other AppUp developers.  Drop us a note if you're attending.  Thi...

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AppUp Round Up - Alchemy & Comics Win $60K Top Prizes

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on February 23, 2011 at 4:45 pm
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The top prices for our Developer Challenge has concluded and last week at Mobile World Congress we announced the overall winners, with Alchemy Classic winning the AppUp Peoples Choice Award and Comics Creator Winning most innovative application.  ...

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Soft Talk Mobile Interviews Bob Duffy on MeeGo announcements and the developer community

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on February 23, 2011 at 2:57 pm
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Soft Talk Mobile interviews me while in the MeeGo pavillion at Mobile World Congress. We discuss our announcements that week, such as: the new AppUp SDK Suite for MeeGo, which includes a MeeGo SDK and AppUp SDK, the opening of MeeGo apps submission for...

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App Lab Learning - Have Faith in The Community

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on February 17, 2011 at 1:52 am
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Well, somedays you forget everything you've learned, you somehow go against your core instincts, and you are taught a lesson that humbles you.  Such was the case on Wednesday during our series of Application Labs at Mobile World Congress.  Co...

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Per Demand a 3rd MeeGo Application Lab added for MWC

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on February 14, 2011 at 9:59 pm
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Note this event is closed, we have exceeded capacity for the location.  Go to our events page to look for more application labs in your geography.  We will have many global events with many more in EU this year. Our originally planned 2 Intel...

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MeeGo Remote Desktop to Windows PC

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on February 14, 2011 at 10:14 am
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Pinch Multitouch Gesture working MeeGo 1.2 Tablet User Experience

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on February 14, 2011 at 10:04 am
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Hands on with MeeGo Tablet 1.2 UX pre-alpha on ExoPC

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on February 13, 2011 at 9:19 pm
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Intel AppUp developer program at Mobile World Congress

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on February 13, 2011 at 9:18 pm
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I'm drafting this post days before the big event happens in Barcelona and lots of indusrty buzz about the event itself and what folks should expect to see this year in mobile computing. This is my first trip to Barcelona and MWC and there a lot I hope...

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Location Awareness demo in Qt Creator using QML

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on February 4, 2011 at 6:11 pm
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This video from MeeGo Developer YouTube Channel, does a good job showing you how to simply add location awareness to an application using MeeGo's location API to gather location coordinates from a device's sensors. This demo shows simple C++ and ...

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Dawning of Smart Peripherals?

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on January 27, 2011 at 10:38 am
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Tweet As a follow up to my post that questions if we are seeing the "Death of the Mouse?" I'd like to consider the other side of that question and examine the dawning of smart peripherals.  In f...

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Winning MeeGo Content

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on January 23, 2011 at 10:23 pm
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First Advertising Component Launches for AppUp

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on January 18, 2011 at 8:40 am
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Advertising is an undoubtedly a growing element of the app store model and ecosystem. Personally, it seems I'm getting more quality free apps these days because of in-app advertising services that allow developers to make their money from advertising,...

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Death Of The Mouse?

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on January 10, 2011 at 7:16 pm
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At CES something caught me, I found it very difficult to find a computer mouse. Not that I wanted one, but as I went from booth to booth, demo to demo, the mouse was like an unwanted dinner guest, nobody told it to come. Game controllers, remote con...

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Show The Bird At CES

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on January 6, 2011 at 7:39 am
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CONTEST EXTENDED - Tweet photos by Friday January 14th We're here at CES and we have a one of kind super awesome never before seen Angry Birds / AppUp shirts. We want to be sure we are giving these away to Angry Bird fans. So we want to see your sp...

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CES Marks First Year for AppUp

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on January 5, 2011 at 5:20 pm
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Lots of cool things are emerging here at CES this year, and as usually it's a geek fest a cool new consumer electronics, gadgets and innovative technology & hardware. Being here at the 2011 CES, I can't help but be reminded that last year we la...

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Angry Birds Lands on AppUp

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on January 4, 2011 at 12:10 pm
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Tweet One of the coolest parts of my job is when I'm asked to review a fun new app in AppUp. And so is the case today. For the last 30 minutes I've been having fun with an exclusive version of An...

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MeeGo Contest Finalists Get Ready to Submit 19 Articles on MeeGo Development

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on December 17, 2010 at 4:50 pm
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Tweet Congratulations to all our finalists for our MeeGo article contest, and thank you for doing a great job on these abstracts. Each finalist has won an SSD drive and is now in the running a $2...

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AppUp Gift for Java Developers & Other Holiday Goodies.

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on December 15, 2010 at 8:40 pm
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Tweet Good tidings with this quarter's update for the AppUp developer program as this time around it appears we are all on the good list with a bevy of new features, and improvements for AppUp develo...

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Reflections from Dublin - MeeGo Conference 2010

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on November 19, 2010 at 11:34 am
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Tweet I'm writing this post in the Dublin airport reflecting back on the last few days here at the MeeGo conference. For me this was a learning experience. Being the Community Manager to the AppUp de...

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12 Best Retro Style Games for the Netbook on AppUp, Plus 10 Classics

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on November 8, 2010 at 5:04 pm
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Back in the 80's, after school and a hour before work I would hit the arcades. There’s something about vector graphics, the sounds of beeps, explosions, 8 bit sound tracks and smacking arcade buttons for 45 minutes straight that is a fond memory for me. The good news for us retro arcade game fans is there are a lot of new games that are loosely based on the classics. And what’s also cool is most of these are either designed for, or play well on a netbook.

It also seems AppUp has become a hot spot for retro style games, so I could not resist providing my list of my 12 favorite retro style games available on Intel’s AppUp Center store. Many of these can be owned for the price a few hours at the arcade. And if you want to play the classics, I also list a few of my classic arcade favorites available in the store. Download the AppUp Center client to get access to these cool games

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How I Set Up My Netbook to Dual Boot Win 7 & MeeGo

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on November 2, 2010 at 8:47 am
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My Step By Step Process To A Dual Boot Netbook I'm not super awesome when it comes to mucking around with a BIOS or setting up a dev build. But since I know MeeGo is new, and many of you will be doing this, and like me probably have not set up a dual...

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My First QML App

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on October 29, 2010 at 5:12 pm
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How I created a javascript game in QML with Qt Creator

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If you heard much of the news from Computex or IDF this year you know that MeeGo is the new kid on the block with a lot of expectation on what kinds of devices we will see running MeeGo as well as how Intel will support MeeGo with AppUp. What I can tell you is we will have a MeeGo focus on this site and will be delivering content to help you get up to speed with MeeGo and how to develop all sorts of cool application for the MeeGo OS.

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From AdobeMAX

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on October 26, 2010 at 4:08 pm
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Lots of cool stuff to see here at AdobeMAX. The first day was focused on how you get apps to work across multiple screens and devices. We saw some amazing tools and techniques from Adobe to intelligently adjust templates and apps to use the same c...

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Overview of Qt Development Framework

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on October 24, 2010 at 4:17 pm
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If you want to get started developing MeeGo applications your best bet is probably to get up to speed with Qt. To get the full scoop and resources on Qt visit Nokia's Qt site and participate in the QT community.

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AppUp Round-Up: Make Me Smart Apps

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on October 20, 2010 at 1:01 pm
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Recently we just closed an AppUp Developer Challenge for an app category called "Make Me Smarter". I've tested a lot of apps in many categories for AppUp, but what struck me & others judging this round is how good most of the apps are in this category. Because there were so many quality apps I felt compelled to publish this round-up a few apps stand out apps in this contest.

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New AppUp Support for .NET

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on October 17, 2010 at 6:25 pm
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New AppUp SDK for .NET and IDE Plug-in for Visual Studio

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The AppUp developer program has just launched support for .NET applications through the release of a new SDK to the AppUp developer program site. The new SDK can be downloaded at http://appdeveloper.intel.com/sdk. Along with the .NET SDK, Intel has also released the much anticipated AppUp IDE Plug-In for Visual Studio 2008. This plug-in reduces the time and effort to integrate the AppUp SDKs and build the MSI needed to submit your application to the store. The IDE Plug-in support both the C/C++ and .NET SDK for Windows when using Visual Studio 2008.

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Elemental Slice and the Atomic Continuum

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on October 6, 2010 at 1:29 pm
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One guys view of Intel's AppUp Elements conference

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So disclaimer first. This is a small view of the Elements conference. The majority of the conference was happening while I was in a session, listening or speaking with developers. However between breaks, at the party I had a chance to talk to dozens of attendees and I heard a lot of the same thing. Enough that I think to figure my slice was representative.

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Dmitry's AppUp developer program desktop dashboard app

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on October 4, 2010 at 8:01 am
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Intel AppUp Elements 2010 - Ryan Green, Code Monkeys

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on October 1, 2010 at 8:41 am
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Ryan discusses AIR development benefits with AppUp

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Ryan discusses the advantage of Adobe AIR allowing you to take Flash based content and bring it to desktop, explaining with AppUp, Adobe developers can now participate in the app ecosystem.

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Intel AppUp Elements 2010 - Jesse Mecham and Taylor Brown, YouNeedABudget.com

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 30, 2010 at 4:36 pm
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Russ Beutler Interviews Jesse Mecham & Taylor Brown About Their YouNeedABudget App

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Jesse & Taylor explain YNAB (You Need A Budget) as a simple solution and methodology to stop living paycheck to paycheck. YNAB is an Adobe AIR application available for $60 via the AppUp Center at http://appupcom. Russ asks the YNAB team about success stories and surveys that have shown debt paid off in a relatively short amount of time. Jesse explains that much of this is achievable by being more aware, careful and purposeful.

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Intel AppUp Elements 2010 - John Martin from Reallusion

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 29, 2010 at 3:12 pm
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John Martin discusses Reallusions experience with AppUp and Elements. Tweet Reallusion provides artistic software allowing artists and developers to create animations on the fly. John sees Elemen...

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Intel AppUp Elements 2010 - Noaman Kazi, Hungama Digital Entertainment

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 29, 2010 at 12:56 pm
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Uday Mysore talks with Noaman Kazi about AppUp and Elements Tweet Noaman expresses his thoughts on how Intel helped get his apps in the store and validated for AppUp. and with Hungama as a leading ...

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Chris Skaggs of Soma Game Interviewed Live at IDF 2010 from AppUp Zone

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 24, 2010 at 4:25 pm
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Bob & Chris discuss Soma Games & Code Monkey's involvement with AppUp Tweet Chris Skaggs joins Intel Community Manager Bob Duffy, during IDF for a live discussion on AppUp. This video runs a...

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The Game Creators Live Interview at IDF 2010

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 24, 2010 at 12:31 pm
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Rick, Lee, & Bob steal 15 minutes of live air time to discuss AppUp development Tweet Lee Bamber and Rick Vanner join Intel Community Manager Bob Duffy, during IDF for a live discussion on AppU...

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AppUp Elements Fireside Chat - Candid Q&A with Intel Management

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 23, 2010 at 11:00 pm
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The Game Creators show off FREE method for creating AppUp MSI

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 21, 2010 at 3:50 pm
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Tweet Video: Lee Bamber of The Game Creators shows how to create a silent installer, for an app to be submitted to AppUp, using free tools available from the Internet. read more

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AppUp Round-Up: Hot Apps from IDF

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 20, 2010 at 5:14 pm
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Tweet At the IDF showcase we demonstrated a number of apps that show off the value and use case of a netbook device. Here are 9 apps across 3 categories. read more

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AppUp(SM) developer program out of beta and other IDF goodies

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 14, 2010 at 9:51 am
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What a year. One year ago at IDF we announced AppUp and we kicked off the Atom Developer program, then in January we launched the AppUp Center Beta client. Today with the developer program a year old and the store more than 8 months going we are annou...

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AppUp Round Up - Mezzmo

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 11, 2010 at 2:41 pm
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Tweet Mezzmo is a multi media app available on the Intel AppUpsm Center and is one of the multi media apps we will be featuring at IDF. Not many folks get how cool Mezzmo is. I hope after thi...

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Buckle Up for AppUp at IDF and Elements Next Week

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on September 9, 2010 at 2:08 pm
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Tweet "Wow", is what I have to say. I know loads of folks over here at Intel, busily working away for what is about to happen next week. It's a bit crazy behind the scenes. So buckle up people it's A...

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Why AppUp? - A Quick Review of the AppUp Model

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on August 23, 2010 at 9:58 am
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Tweet Intel launched a beta version of its AppUp Center online store in January of 2010. Under the beta program developers have known AppUp as a single store front primarily supporting netbook applic...

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Get Your Invite to Intel AppUp Elements 2010

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on August 17, 2010 at 5:10 pm
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Because it's the party to be at! Opportunity Knocks Register by September 1st to get your registration fee waived ($795 value)! Following immediately after IDF is the conference that goes deep, wide, serious and crazy about mobile app development...

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Candid Letter To Intel, Asks Us to Wake-Up about AppUp

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on August 17, 2010 at 2:50 pm
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Chris Skaggs of Soma Games, and an active member of the Atom Developer Program posted an interesting blog this week on the Soma Games site titled: An Open Letter to Intel on The AppUp Center. For full disclosure Chris also works for Code Monkeys, who Intel has contracted with for providing software development services to port apps to AppUp. To say his letter is candid is a bit of an understatement, and Chris admits his reservation about writing the post by saying:

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Get Your non C/C++ apps in AppUp with Free Component

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on August 15, 2010 at 4:59 pm
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Free AppAble Component from BaKno Games for Limited Time There are many value propositions for the Atom Developer Program. On is a more open and broadening means to develop apps to monetize and distribute thru AppUp. The other is that our community...

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The Game Creators Launch Best Netbook Game Contest

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on August 10, 2010 at 7:48 am
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For $5K and bragging rights Apparently killing zombies & shooting aliens on a netbook could be better. So The Game Creators and Intel have teamed up for a competition to create the best netbook game using tools and software available from The Game Cr...

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How to Be More App Than Application: Tips for AppUp Development

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on July 29, 2010 at 2:08 pm
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I have about 70 applications on my netbook AppUp client and these apps run the spectrum. As I use these apps I'm often struck when one stands out as being a good app experience. I believe that experience is also what I tend to see in mobile apps for i...

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AppUp Round-Up: Goals

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on July 28, 2010 at 7:11 am
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Goals Scores as Best Game for Atom Developer Challenge I wish I was better at sports video games. I can do platformers, puzzle games and racers like nobody's business, but get me on Madden or FIFA and it's about 5 seconds to epic fail. I'm just not ...

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A Look at Adobe AIR Apps

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on July 21, 2010 at 3:31 pm
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In my post Adobe AIR for AppUp – What Developers Need To Know I called out four key features of AIR Cross-Platform  Out of Browser app On & Offline Data queries Rich Multi-Media As a follow up I'm examining these ...

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AIR for AppUp - What a developer needs to know

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on July 21, 2010 at 2:56 pm
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Today Adobe & Intel release a new SDK which is the preview of the Melrose Beta SDK from Adobe that allows for Adobe AIR apps to be integrated into online stores such as the Intel AppUp Center. The Atom Develper Program will offer the SDK starting tod...

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AppUp Round-Up: WizardBrush

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on July 9, 2010 at 2:31 pm
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In Search of a "Grown Up" Netbook App We have a couple of posts on this site looking at My Little Artist, which is a great netbook app for helping young artists show their stuff. Netbooks are a natural choice for kids, but for many of us netbook enthu...

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Getting a Rev App into the AppUp Store

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 30, 2010 at 3:46 pm
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The following post was authored by AppUp developer and Atom Developer Program community member Andres Martinez for RunRev newsletter and has been republished here with his permission. The post describes his wrapper product intelAble for deploying...

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MeeGo for Handsets Arrives - Supports Aava Atom Moorestown

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 30, 2010 at 11:57 am
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Congrats to the MeeGo team in launching the Meego handset user experience project. The blog post by Valhalla on MeeGo.com announces the delivery of the handset baseline source code for the development community explaining that this code drop "is ...

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Pre-Alpha MeeGo Atom Tablet Including AppUp Store

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 23, 2010 at 12:50 pm
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MeeGo is starting to shape ups as you can see in this recent video of the pre-alpha version from the MeeGo demo team. MeeGo 1.0 was recently released last month and that version was the netbook version of MeeGo available to OEMs to download and devel...

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Two AppUp Developers Rise Up As First Black Belts for Intel Atom Developer Program

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 21, 2010 at 10:39 am
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DOO! Doo Doo DOO! "Risin' up, back on the street , Did my time, took my chances ..." Ok I'll let that little diddy synch in. Keep it humming in your head, because its the right mood for this post We have some champions to recognize and we need to go...

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Recap of Intel's First Atom Developer Application Lab for AppUp

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 12, 2010 at 11:10 am
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On May 26th 2010, Intel held its first application lab for the Intel Atom Developer Program, where we worked directly with developers to get their apps into the Intel AppUp Center app store for netbooks. During the event we covered an overview of the program and opportunity for netbook app development, development opportunities for building Adobe AIR applications for netbooks, application submission & validation process, and a review of the SDK for Windows & Moblin. The event also provided a lab for developers to get hands on with the Atom Developer Program site, developer dashboard, and process for submitting apps to the store.


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Country Connect Solves Puzzle As Winning Educational Netbook App

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 9, 2010 at 4:25 pm
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Developer, Jordan Magnuson has cracked the "AppUp" code! He's the latest Atom Developer Program member to win $10,000 for his app "Country Connect". Jordan won the best "Education & Reference application" category of Intel's Atom Developer Challe...

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Intel Atom Developer Windows Beta 3 SDK brings Enhancements & Component Integration

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 8, 2010 at 11:33 am
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The Atom Developer Program has just released Beta 3 of its Windows SDK. With this new release there are a number of enhancements to assist application development, as well as opening a new marketplace opportunity for component sales & integration f...

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Chatter & Buzz Abound at Computex for Intel AppUp, Atom & MeeGo

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 4, 2010 at 10:42 am
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My Twitter is a twitter with all the Computex buzz regarding MeeGo, AppUp, cool new netbook and Atom technology, and amazing tablet demos showcasing the MeeGo open source operating system. In case you missed it, here's a summary of some of the cool th...

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Hands On with MeeGo Atom Powered Tablet at Computex 2010

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on June 1, 2010 at 9:12 am
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Engadget provides an excellent hands on view of this reference MeeGo Tablet running the Intel Moorestown Atom processor. Read the full post here. We saw a lot of new technology demoed at Intel's Computex keynote this afternoon, but the most impressi...

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DJView Reader A Winning Utility App for AppUp

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on May 21, 2010 at 4:50 pm
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DJView Reader from AppUp developer Mahmoud Galal is the most recent Intel Atom Developer Challenge Winner for the Best Utilities & Securities Application category and like the previous winner ""My Little Artist" it demonstrates value for Netbook users....

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Why Developers Should Care About The New Atom Z6XX Processor (Moorestown)

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on May 7, 2010 at 9:31 am
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This week Intel announced its next generation Atom processor the Atom Z6XX. This new processor is targeted at handheld, tablets and slates. Which if you happen to come across sites like like Gizmodo, Pocketlink, or Engadget you might have figured out there's just a tad of coverage on this computing segment.

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Your Inner Artist Shines with AppUp's Netbook App "My Little Artist"

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on April 30, 2010 at 9:15 am
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The latest Atom Developer Challenge winner is "My Little Artist" from Dmitry Ryzhkov. It won the "Home & Lifestyle" application category. "My Little Artist is a free drawing program for kids. It combines an easy-to-use interface (optimized for netbooks) and amazing drawing tools to help a child to be creative. I had the pleasure to play around with the application and I have some thoughts to why it won this category.

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A Tale of Two Ports: A Picard vs Kirk review of mobile app porting techniques

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on April 27, 2010 at 11:14 am
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I had the pleasure this last month collaborating with two accomplished developers on their methods for porting iPhone games to AppUp for netbooks running Windows. I was very impressed by the creativity, ingenuity of these ports while at the same time it appears they follow some common practices to ensure quality a experience on a netbook. While very different these porting methods are both viable and I believe represent the most likely scenarios for porting a mobile app to AppUp.

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Here Come The Tablets: New Tech Wave or Wave of Desire?

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on April 13, 2010 at 9:44 am
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The first wave hit the shore with Apple's iPad and it so far it looks to be a pretty cool ride. We can also see a swell out there in the distance. We know its coming, a wave of tablet devices from nearly every PC and mobile device manufacturer. From Dell, to Nokia, from Asus to HP, and some new breeds like OpenPeak and WePad there's a lot coming our way.

The question remains, is this a new device segment that people want or need or is it manufactured desire.

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Mobile Dev Opens Up: Intel Launches Moblin AppUp Client & EU support

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on March 25, 2010 at 11:50 am
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In January we launched the AppUp Center Beta and a lot of developers were thinking..."what about Linux?" We've been getting those questions for some time & I totally get the interest especially for developers. The waiting is over because today we've announced the Moblin v2.1 client for AppUp. Here's my thinking on what this means for developers.

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Sixense Motion Controller at Intel Lounge GDC 2010

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on March 13, 2010 at 9:11 am
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One of the cooler demos was by Sixense at the Intel lounge, located at the North Hall of GDC. Here's a quick video showing off the motion controllers and a brief explanation of the unique magnetic field being used in to track the position of the controllers wirelessly in 3 dimensional space. The panaromic screens [...]

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Ticker Tape Threading Demo at GDC 2010 Intel Booth

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on March 12, 2010 at 3:50 pm
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I stopped by the Ticker Tape demo at Intel GDC booth and shot this quick video. This demos shows the power and advantage of threading games and because its running on the new Core i7-980x (Gulftown) we can see the demo scale from 1 to 12 threads. The message here; threading your games allows you [...]

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First Impressions of Intel Booth at GDC 2010

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on March 11, 2010 at 2:53 pm
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This is my first GDC and I have to say I'm pretty much blown away at the activity. The Intel booth has a lot going. There are about 21 demos including StarCraft II, Napoleon, Star Trek online, Cakewalk and most are showcasing how they've optimized performance and graphics for Intel architecture. Here is a quick [...]

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Say the password to get on the beta list for StarCraft II

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 4:44 pm
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To be part of the beta group for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty™ all you need to do is know the secret password. During the next few days of GDC Intel will be passing along secret passwords in Twitter. If you find these daily passwords and can tell the StarCraft Demo team at the GDC [...]

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TGC Opens Door for All to Create & Sell Games via AppUp

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on March 2, 2010 at 3:44 pm
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The Game Creators are great group that for many years have done an amazing job fostering an ecosystem of game developers and hobbyist to create amazing games without having to be a skilled developer. And now they've taken to help their community to distribute and sell their games via Intel's AppUp Center.

On their own TGC's DarkBASIC Professional & First Person Shooter Creator are really amazing applications that enable coding neophytes and BASIC programing fans to build beautiful and sophisticated games. If there is any doubt on the ability to create cool games with this software check out these sample games from their community of users.

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Win GDC Prizes via Social Apps: Intel Visual Adrenaline Fan Challenge

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on February 17, 2010 at 1:54 pm
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Are you going to GDC 2010? Do you have a cool smartphone, like iPhone, Android Nexus, or BlackBerry with access to Twitter, Facebook or Foursquare? If so, put that puppy to work work at GDC to play the Visual Adrenaline Fan Challenge to win some cool prizes. All it takes is stopping by any of [...]

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Is Time Travel Possible With The Right SDK?

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on February 5, 2010 at 2:28 pm
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You might recall the 80's film series Back to The Future, where Marty McFly uses a time machine to to go back and forward in time. That machine was driven by a fictional piece of technology called the Flux Capacitor, which made it possible for Marty to set a time in the past or future [...]

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Back to BASIC Game Development via DarkBASIC

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on February 1, 2010 at 1:46 pm
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So I’m checking out the AppUp Center for new games and I come across DarkBASIC from The Game Creators. I look at the description and realize this is not a game, it’s a game development language, leveraging DirectX via the BASIC programming language for simple game development.


For $9.99 I’m thinking, OK I’ll try this, I’m sure I can expense it right, and how fun to flashback to college days of BASIC programming, i.e:

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8 Reasons NOT to Submit an App to Intel’s AppUp Center

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on January 25, 2010 at 4:26 am
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Since the announcement of the AppUp center last week at CES, I realized something. Perhaps, between the Ninja Warrior marathon on G4TV and limited breaks between Avatar screenings, some folks may have not gotten the message about the AppUp Center and the opportunity it provides gaming developers. It also dawned on me there are good reasons game developers may WAIT to submit an app for online distribution, that Paul certainly over-looked in his CES keynote address.

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You gotta check out this Atom N450, D410, & D510 video

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on January 5, 2010 at 7:14 pm
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If you're wondering about the next generation Atom processors, and what kinds of devices will be available to develop games & media applications, then this video is a great introduction by Cindy Ng, from the Intel Netbook Marketing Team, on the N450, D410, & D510 chips. The N450 is a mobile chip, with the D410 [...]

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Why Develop Games For Atom?

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on November 17, 2009 at 11:48 am
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So you've heard of the Intel® Atom™ Developer Program. As a game developer you may be wondering, "What’s the opportunity?” or “Why bother developing for Atom, won’t many of the same casual games created for a PC work fine on a Netbook?” To get answers I think you have to think outside “typical” PC gaming [...]

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Casual Gamers Want "Relax" Mode

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (120 posts) on November 12, 2009 at 10:00 am
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As the Atom processor makes its way into Netbooks, MIDs and handhelds next year, casual gaming is an opportunity for many software developers to explore developing new games on Intel Architecture. We should see games designed specifically for the hardware such as smaller screen sizes on Netbooks. However I think we may also see games [...]

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