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Fast Company Is Hiring A Sr. Front-End Developer

We are looking for a Senior Front-end Developer to join the Fast Company design team.READ»

POINT ABOUT   |  Comment

Major Brands Look to Point About, Zumobi, NellyMoser to Create Apps

A new class of developers ushers major brands into an app-centric world.READ»

Inflatable Buildings That Could Earn $10 Million a Year

Using clever, super-green construction methods, Woods Bagot proposes a building system that would make use of the stalled sites littering New York.READ»

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Meet T.J. Pluhacek, the Youngest iPad App Developer

The 16-year-old developer from Oregon has already landed his first iPad-specific program in the App Store--NoteLook. This is not a game.READ»

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Salesforce.com to Become Platform Juggernaut, Says CEO

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, talks about Salesforce's latest moves to build into the new Internet platform with a partnership with Google that'll be announced on Monday. He talks some smack about existing enterprise vendors ...READ»

The iPad-Adobe Flash Argument Concluded, Completely

Apple's iPhone, MacBook trackpads, and Magic Mouse all are jammed with multitouch goodness, as will the iPad be. What the iPad won't have is Flash. Because multitouch and Flash aren't compatible. The debate is closed. Listen very ...READ»

APP STORE   |  Comment

Apple Reforms App Approval as Facebook Developer Vows "Never Again"

Just a day after being publicly excoriated by an influential developer, Apple has introduced new tweaks to its App Store approval process to make it more friendly to submissions. Joe Hewitt, developer of Facebook for iPhone and an ...READ»

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Blackberry and Palm Apps Getting Better, but Not Fast Enough

Even as Apple celebrates the release of its 100,000th app--and that cash machine it calls the app store--Palm and RIM are running fast to catch up, and woo developers to their platforms. Earlier this week, Palm introduced a Web-based ...READ»

PALM   |  Comment

Palm Hopes Building Apps on the Web Will Draw Developers

Palm desperately needs better apps. And it's hoping its new Web-based development environment will lure more creative code monkeys, according to PCWorld. But is the environment really the problem? Or is Palm offering too little too ...READ»

PALM   |  Comment

Is Palm Driving Developers Underground?

An angry rant by a prominent developer describes Palm's app store as developer hell: fees, paperwork, and a PayPal account are required. But as counter-rants have pointed out, Palm is letting unofficial app stores thrive. Is Palm ...READ»

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Evernote: Your Other Brain, for Windows

Evernote is a remember-everything notebook app beloved by obsessive developers, project managers, and generally forgetful creatives everywhere. This week the company launched a revamped Windows version, which will bring it up to speed ...READ»

TWITTER   |  Comment

Think You're Pissed at Facebook and Twitter?

This morning you logged on to Facebook and Twitter, only to find you had no way of announcing to the world that you were starting a new diet. Or eating Raisin Bran. Or hungover. So you stormed away from your computer, irate: how could ...READ»

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How Fast Can We Make the Web?

That's the question being asked by Google's new coding site for developers, code.google.com/speed. The search giant, famous for its spartan, utilitarian Web interfaces and monster server farms, believes that making pages on the Web ...READ»

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Google I/O: The Next Android OS--Google Donut, Looks Tasty

Today marks the end of Google's I/O developer conference. Just days shy of Apple's own WWDC, which kicks off next week, Google took the opportunity to tell us two things: Android 2 is going to be killer, and Google will pay you ...READ»