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Apple’s agreement with iPhone developers contains several “troubling” clauses that paint the company as a “jealous and arbitrary feudal lord,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said yesterday. The nonprofit digital rights advocacy group on Tuesday published a January 2010 version of the iPhone Developer License Agreement obtained from NASA through a Freedom of Information Act request

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EFF dubs Apple a ‘jealous feudal lord’ over iPhone dev contract

Developers of the Google-backed Android mobile application platform have released revision 3 of Android NDK (Native Development Kit), which complements Android SDK by enabling developers to build performance-critical portions of an application in native code. Release of NDK r3 was noted in a posting on the Android Developer Blog on Monday.

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Android native development kit updated

Chip giant Intel, a major backer of the movement to provide mobile WiMax wireless broadband to Internet users around the world, expects the next major release of the technology to be deployed starting in 2012, an executive said Tuesday. “Standards work will be completed by the end of this year,” said Rama Shukla, a vice president and director of the WiMax program office at Intel, during a news conference in Taipei.

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Intel sees 2012 deployment for mobile WiMax Release 2

Hard as it may be to believe, the original iPhone shipped two and a half years ago with just 16 applications, all of them designed by Apple. Today, that number has increased by a factor of thousands, a fact that Apple hasn’t been the least bit shy about using to its advantage

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iPad developers struggle with hands-off approach

With all the attention focused on Apple suing HTC in the last few days, you might have forgotten that Apple has been embroiled in another legal dispute, instituted by rival mobile phone maker Nokia .

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U.S. judge suspends Apple-Nokia case

Skype and Nokia have released a new Skype client for the Symbian mobile OS.

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Nokia smartphones get Skype client

Cisco Systems will soon release a VPN client for smartphones and PCs aimed at enterprise administrators who want to provide secure access to their networks and ward off malicious software .

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Cisco VPN client secures PCs, smartphones

Intel is using cash incentives to lure mobile software developers to its AppUp Center application store, hoping to spur the development of new applications for netbooks with Atom microprocessors inside.

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Intel dangles cash to lure developers to its app store

Skype’s VoIP apps for the Windows Mobile operating system, Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Phones, are no longer available for download, the company announced, claiming the apps didn’t offer a good enough experience.

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Skype pulls Windows Mobile VoIP apps