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Ever wish you could easily implement mobile payments? This excerpt from Matthew A. Russell's PayPal APIs: Up and Running introduces Mobile Express Checkout as an easy way to handle mobile transact...
Below, "Art of SEO" co-author Eric Enge (@stonetemple) offers practical advice for managing search engine optimization (SEO) in the age of mobile devices and social media.
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Some of the tenets and techinques used in software engineering can as well be applied to app development. The following excerpt from the recent publication App Inventor will offer some insight.
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<p>Phone <em>and</em> credit card may soon become phone <em>or</em> credit card thanks to near field communication (NFC). And that's just the beginning — NFC could ...
This excerpt from the O'Reilly publication Developing Android Applications with Flex 4.5 will walk you through building your first AIR on Android application using Adobe Flash Builder 4.5. If you ...
A virtual private network (VPN) is a kind of virtual tunnel that lets authorized people into the network, while blocking everyone else. This excerpt from the O'Reilly publication Motorola Xoom: Th...
The documentation you receive with new hardware and software often leave something to be desired. Sometimes it helps to have another resource. The following O'Reilly publication Motorola Xoom: The...
jQuery Mobile is a touch-optimized web framework for creating apps that look and behave consistently across many devices. The following excerpt from jQuery Mobile explains the page navigation options,...
The future belongs to mobile web apps that function on a broad range of smartphones and tablets. The excerpt below from jQuery Mobile helps you get started with jQuery Mobile, the touch-optimized web ...
The excerpt below from Learning Android offers a look at working with threads in Android. A thread is a sequence of instructions executed in order. Although each CPU can process only one instruction a...