Apple today sent out an email encouraging Mac developers to sign up for the company’s Developer ID program so that their apps can be properly signed ahead of the launch of OS X Mountain Lion later this year. Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper feature gives users the ability to set limits on app installation, with the new [...]

Amazon is now letting developers charge higher prices for in-app purchases thanks to new parental controls it just strengthened. The company sent out an e-mail to developers today that said: “With our parental controls functionality now updated, in-app items over $ 20 may now be submitted via the developer portal.” Developers depend on these pricier [...]

Developers are at odds over Adobe’s plan to charge a 9 percent revenue share for higher-end Flash games that make more than $ 50,000 in revenues. So today, Adobe announced a new set of features for developers who create very graphics-heavy games with the launch of Flash Player 11.2. It also unveiled a partnership with Unity Technologies, the [...]

Edmodo, an online social learning and communications network for teachers and students in K-12 schools, is opening up its API to third–party web developers to enable the creation of educational applications built on top of the platform. Edmodo, which just raised $ 15 million from Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital, is a free service that [...]

Walking around CES this week it’s easy to see the future: just look at the components being sold in the nether regions of the show. These include specific things – Bluetooth powered electrical cords, for example – and “pieces” like smaller motherboards, cases, and materials. When planning a launch line-up, major manufacturers peruse catalogs of [...]