[caption id="attachment_730" align="alignnone" width="585"] Vodafone India opens its billing and messaging APIs[/caption] Vodafone India has launched the Vodafone Developer Platform that will allow third-party developers to tap its billing and message APIs, amongst other resources. Opening up of the billing API means that developers will be able to offer in-app purchases that can be billed to a Vodafone India customer's monthly bill or account balance for postpaid and prepaid customers respectively. Speaking about the initiative, Vivek Mathur, Chief Operating Officer, Vodafone India said, "With the growth of smartphones and mobile internet, people are increasingly showing more interest in mobile apps and content services. To strengthen the ecosystem for app developers & content service providers and partner with them, we have launched the Vodafone Developer Platform. We expect the developer community…

[caption id="attachment_725" align="alignnone" width="585"] UC Browser 9.5 launched[/caption] UC Web, a popular mobile internet software and services provider, has released its new UC Browser 9.5 for Android OS. The new UC Browser 9.5 claims to deliver the fastest download speed of any mobile browser on the market, and adds support for more number of languages and fonts, along with a Web Application Centre, UC Homescreen Widget, and an Image Viewer feature. The new version supposedly enables the user to download 15 percent faster on 3G and Wi-Fi compared with the previous version of the UC Browser. 2G performance has been also revamped for a smoother browsing experience, according to UC Web. The Web Application Centre built into the UC Browser 9.5 allows users to easily install and run HTML5 and…

[caption id="attachment_715" align="alignnone" width="585"] BlackBerry Enterprise Server support[/caption]   John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry, has confirmed the arrival of BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) support for the Windows Phone platform. The service currently supports on Android, iOS and BlackBerry platforms. No launch date for Windows Phone was provided however. "I could put a sales team on Wall Street. I know how to do this up and down Wall Street ... we will go in and tell them why BES is the best thing for them, and go through the road map, the offerings, and all that good stuff. We're going to protect their investment in iPhone, and Android, and everywhere else, even with Windows Phones...you could be an iPhone customer, and also a BlackBerry customer. You could be an Android customer,…

Several iPhone app developers have teamed up to launch PhotoAppLink, a new open source initiative that aims to simplify photo editing by tying multiple photo-editing apps together. As you know, there are an incredible number of photo editing apps in iTunes today, and often, each especially excels in one particular area. For example, converting photos to black and white, cropping, compositing or writing on top of photos are all features of popular standalone apps. But what about when you want to make multiple edits using multiple apps? That’s a far more complicated process. And it’s the very problem PhotoAppLink aims to solve. Currently, in order to edit your photo in multiple apps, you have to save the edited photo to the camera roll each time as you move in between…