The last stock of HP TouchPads is dwindling, and HP is trying to sell some of it’s final units to developers, it seems. HP is offering developers coupons to buy 32GB TouchPads for $150 each. Presumably the coupons are the company’s way to control how many TouchPads each developer gets, as each coupon can be more »

Nokia is going to push it’s Lumia 710 and 800 Windows Phones hard by giving away a total of 85,000 to developers and bloggers. On the developer side, Nokia will be giving away 25,000 of the new Windows Phones to developers who promise to create apps for the platform. Nokia could put the apps in more »

Amazon has laid out some ground rules on developing apps for the Kindle Fire. Amazon wants to make sure that developers follow strict guidelines so that the first Kindle Fire-optimized apps will work as well as possible. Among the restrictions are Amazon’s requirements that apps do not use Google Mobile Services and a number of additional features the Kindle Fire does not have.

Google now allows Android developers to dictate what type of APK (Android Package) is distributed to device owners. Up until now, every APK was the same no matter what device downloaded it. Tablet owners would get the same APK as smartphone owners, high-end smartphones would get the same APK as low-end smartphones and so on. Now developers can upload multiple APKs for an application. This effectively helps to eliminate fragmentation on some level.

Part of an app’s transition from a smartphone to a tablet involves optimizing it for use on a large screen. Some apps look great on screens that are 3-4 inches, but they may look pixelated and gross when blown up to screens that are 7-10 inches. Every tablet operating system has to deal with this. In Android’s case, Google is working on something that will make apps that aren’t optimized for tablets look better on tablet screens.

We hope you haven’t gotten tired of companies who are trying to capitalize on mobile payments because we expect this topic to remain hot for a while. The latest contender is a company called card.io. Unlike other companies that are looking to take advantage of mobile payments in the retail space, card.io is focused on payments that are made through applications on smartphones.

Even with all the great new features of Windows Phone Mango, Microsoft’s mobile OS still lacks something very important: apps. Previously Microsoft has tried to make it easy for iOS developers to port their apps over to Windows Phone 7, and now its moving on to Android developers.

Lodsys, the company who at one point threatened to sue Apple App Store developers for allegedly infringing on its patents, has turned its attention to the Android developers. Lodsys claims that while companies such as Apple and Google have the right to use its patents for in-app purchases, that same courtesy does not extend to app developers who try to make more money from microtransactions.

With the launch of the TouchPad looming somewhere in the future HP needs to do all it can to get prepared for the launch. It looks like HP is doing just that by sending TouchPads to key developers before the rest of us even have a release date for the WebOS tablet. The information comes more »

When Google I/O tickets went on sale they sold out in a record breaking 59 minutes. Well, needless to say that probably left quite a few wishing more tickets were available. Not to mention, bummed that they were not going to be able to attend. But as it turns out, Google has other plans and more »