Developers, techies, Apple worshipers worldwide, and all the iPhone app designers/developers/lovers here at PointAbout have next Monday June 6th circled on our calendars. It marks the beginning of the 2011 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), an annual conference put on by Apple that often sees the announcement of major product initiatives. This year’s event sold out in less than 24 hours, compared to eight days last year. In 2010, the iPhone 4 was unveiled at WWDC…. Read more »

As we mentioned on the blog earlier this week, PointAbout’s Nate Weisz and Doug Peterson each had the opportunity to present at the MoDevDC MeetUp at TeqCorner last week. Nate walked the crowd through an iPhone and iPad app PointAbout’s team worked with a major airline services company to create and debuted in Copenhagen earlier this month at the Passenger Terminal Expo. The app provides users with an airline-agnostic travel tool, complete with digital boarding… Read more »

Pete Erickson hosted a MoDevDC MeetUp last Wednesday at TeqCorner in McLean, VA, where he kicked things off with a solid hour-long chat with Tom Love. Love and Brad Cox co-created the Objective-C programming language in the early 1980s at Stepstone and the rest, as they say, is history. The discussion covers Objective-C’s roots in Smalltalk, how Stepstone ended up licensing Objective-C to Apple, and why it’s such a shame for Love that the original… Read more »

Apple’s Mac App Store is set to open on January 6th, meaning there’ll soon be yet another platform for native apps beyond the iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Blackberries and RIM’s forthcoming Playbook, Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft’s upcoming line of slates, and whatever else may be coming down the pipeline from Intel, Nokia, and HP. Dan Frommer at the San Francisco Chronicle got his hands on a grainy screenshot of what’s alleged to… Read more »