Author Archives: Bob Duffy

In-App Purchases for Consumables & Urban Airship Hosted Content, Plus Enhanced HTML5 Support & More

With Spring comes renewed opportunity, and so with AppUp there’s more ways for you to monetize your apps as well as more features and support for HTML5 based apps, and improvements for submission and reporting.  Here’s a high level view of what ha… Continue reading

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

 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… Continue reading

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

 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… Continue reading

The Intel AppUp SDK, now optional for Windows apps

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… Continue reading

Tagged: blog, content, SDK

The Intel AppUp SDK, now optional for Windows apps

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… Continue reading

Tagged: blog, content, SDK

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

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… Continue reading

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

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… Continue reading

The case for comprehensive mobile computing & PC app stores

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… Continue reading

The case for comprehensive mobile computing & PC app stores

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… Continue reading

AppUp Strategy for Tizen, Ultrabooks, & HTML5 explained

The following video is courtesy of NetbookNews’s YouTube Channel Continue reading

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

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… Continue reading

Developing Apps Across the Compute Continuum – Panel discussion from IDF

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… Continue reading

AppUp powered store, pre-installed on ASUS – Video

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 … Continue reading

Tagged: meego, netbook, Store

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

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. … Continue reading

Announcing power management and background app designation for MeeGo apps

 Power Management, MeeGo Tablets, and What to Knowread more Continue reading

Early MeeGo devices supporting a compute continuum

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… Continue reading

MeeGo Application Design Guidelines Now Available

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… Continue reading

Tagged: design, guidelines, meego, UI, UX

Qt Creator Plug-in & Other New Features, But Wait There’s More To Come

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 updat… Continue reading

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

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.read more Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading