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Adobe on Thursday said it would resurrect a tool that lets developers port Flash applications to the iPhone after Apple did an about-face earlier in the day. The move came just hours after Apple reversed an April decision that blocked programmers from using popular tools and technologies to build software for the iPhone, iPad, and [...]

Google’s AdMob business could not deliver advertising through iAd if Apple began enforcing a policy that restricts the involvement of companies that have their own mobile operating systems, said Omar Hamoui, vice president of mobile ads at Google. Apple’s policy does not allow the collection of advertising analytics by companies whose primary business is not [...]

AdMob may not be locked out of iPhone applications just yet. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that application developers using AdMob as their in-app advertising provider are having their applications approved by Apple without incident, despite Apple’s decision to change the terms of the iPhone developer agreement in a way that appeared to ban [...]

Updated 11:21 a.m. PDT with additional information. After reviewing Apple’s changes to its iPhone developer agreement, Google’s AdMob reached the same conclusion that many others did: it could be screwed. Apple this week changed the terms of the developer agreement that governs iPhone applications to prohibit developers from using advertising in their applications that shares [...]

An Android engineering team member earlier this week lashed out at critics who spread fears of fragmentation in the Android mobile phone market In a blog post, Dan Morrill, a member of the engineering team for the Google-led Android project, also detailed efforts to ensure compatibility on the Android software platform, which was unveiled in November [...]

Vendors shipped a record 54.5 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, 39 percent more than the 39.2 million shipped in the same quarter in 2008, IDC reported today. Four of the top five smartphone vendors bested their own shipment records for a single quarter, IDC said. Apple boosted its place in the smartphone pack as [...]