Earlier this month, the London based program Apps for Good splashed the pages of The Next Web in our story, Apps for Good turns teens into mobile app developers for a better future. We interviewed the program’s CEO Iris Lapinski, a driven, brilliant entrepreneur who is literally changing the world through CDI Europe‘s open sourced education...
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Wikipedia pushed a new mobile interface live today and though end-users probably won’t be able to tell the difference (except the new Beta label) – it’s the start of something big. The new mobile frontend framework that’s been pushed live, called MobileFrontend, replaces an older less agile front end for the mobile site and...
Google just announced the first integration of Maps into Google Plus. Users of Google Maps can now easily share maps or directions as Google Plus “+snippets.” By clicking “Share…” in the now ubiquitous black Google menu bar, users can now post Google Maps into their Plus-buddies’ streams. Last month, Google rolled out +snippets to...
To celebrate the opening of their new ATT Foundry in Palo Alto, ATT is talking about some of the ambitious projects that they and their partner developers have been cooking up. One of the most interesting so far is ATT Messages, which attempts to make all of your messages, voicemails, and call logs accessible...
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There have been 500,000 downloads of Windows 8 Developer Preview in just under 24 hours, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today at the BUILD developer conference. This is pretty impressive demand for what amounts to an early alpha build of Microsoft’s next OS. Ballmer’s keynote was also punctuated with Ballmer discussing the reaction of...