BlackBerry Messenger (or BBM), a marquee messaging app for the BlackBerry OS is coming to Apple’s iOS soon.
See the full story: BlackBerry: We submitted BBM for iOS two weeks ago | Smartphones – CNET Reviews.
This is great news for those organizations who have a bring your own device policy. It will open up opportunities for this type of policy in more restrictive enterprises or enterprises exclusively using BB Enterprise Servers.
“The open, collaborative workflow we have created for software development is so appealing that it’s gaining traction for non-software projects that require significant collaboration,” says GitHub cofounder and CEO Tom Preston-Werner.
With 3.4 million users, the five-year-old site is a runaway hit in the hacker community, the go-to place for coders to show off pet projects and crowdsource any improvements. But the company has grander ambitions: It wants to change the way people work. It’s starting with software developers for sure, but maybe one day anyone who edits text in one form or another — lawyers, writers, and civil servants — will do it the GitHub way.
See the full story: From Collaborative Coding to Wedding Invitations: GitHub Is Going Mainstream | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com.
A young man pours his heart and soul into an add-on for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that adds dozens of hours of new gameplay, quests, and more — for free.
via 19-year-old creates incredible Skyrim expansion | Crave – CNET.
Amazing creativity. An example of what can be produced through access to open data, in this case the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim SDK (software development kit or creation kit). The 19 year old creator of the Falskaar add-on, Alexander J. Velicky, is hoping to get a job with Bethesda Game Studios.
Related: The Elder Scrolls Online
You may also like:
infophile 