Korean prosecutors investigating Google's use of Street View technology in the country believe they have identified the developer behind what it believes is a privacy-infringing feature, serving a notice and...

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At its recent BUILD event, Microsoft promised to quickly deliver a community test preview (CTP) build of its forthcoming ‘Roslyn' compiler as a service (CaaS) product. Today it made good...

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Mobile social gaming network OpenFeint has just appointed Sarah Thomson, a former Glu Mobile and IUGO executive, as its Director of Developer Relations. Thomson is a heavy hitter in the mobile gaming world. As such, OpenFeint hopes to utilize her insight and deep connections to continue building its relationships with both traditional and free-to-play developers. More after the jump.

Read More: OpenFeint Hires Former Glu Executive, Sarah Thomson, as Director of Developer Relations

You may recall that two months ago, we found and leaked Facebook's iPad app. What was especially awesome is that the entire app was buried the code for Facebook's iPhone app, you just had to do a few tricks to enable it. Once Facebook realized what we found, they took moves to try and shut it down. But it was too late. The app was out there, and looked pretty close to complete. In fact, it turns out it was complete at that point.

On his personal blog today, developer Jeff Verkoeyen reveals that [...]

Read More: Facebook’s iPad App Has Been Done Since May, But They Won’t Release It, So The Developer ...

Facebook has just started sending out invitations to f8, its semi-regular developer conference during which it typically rolls out its most important features.

This year's event will take place on September 22 in San Francisco and will take place at the San Francisco Design Center. The event's official page is right here.

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If you've ever roved around Facebook's developer forums, you may have noticed that — aside from being loaded with complaints and bug reports — they're pretty basic. There's nothing wrong with them per se, but they feel like a pretty generic forum install, and not a hub for developers on one of the web's most popular web platforms.

Today, Facebook is announcing how it's going to fix the situation: it's abandoning its old forums, which it says are "showing their age", and launching a custom site [...]

Read More: Facebook Turns To Stack Overflow To Power Developer Forums

I just discovered an app for Facebook that is, well, a "Better Facebook". It is simple to use and gives you a better interface to use Facebook and to view other types of content (Twitter and Tumblr posts, for instance).  Read more about it below.

Read More: Developer Creates “Better Facebook” App, But Says No To Internet Explorer

I took a look a the Where To? iPhone app (currently on sale for 99 cents – it is normally $2.99) and its 99 cent Augmented Reality add-on last week.Where To? for iPhone Can Help You Find & Share Places to Go. Optional AR View Adds to Discovery Fun"Where To?"‘s developer revealed his sales figures this week and the sales story is quite interesting. Where To? – Three exciting yearsFuturetap bought the app from taptaptap (best known for Camera+) in December 2008. The lifetime sales [...]

Read More: “Where To?” for iPhone Developer Reveals Sales Figures, Profits & Marketing Strategy

The challenge for mobile application developers is being able to make their apps available for a multitude of platforms, each of which have different development environments that require writing separate applications. A small developer may have to choose to only write their app for only one platform because that is all they can afford to support, or at the very least pick one first and then develop for other platforms later. PhoneGap is a HTML5 app platform that allows developers to write apps [...]

Read More: Developer Tool Provides Easy Cross Platform Development