I caught a tweet today from @young_adam tipping me off to a blog post from the RIM development team. It seems the Native Development Kit for the PlayBook is now being brought into a closed beta, and developers are being asked to apply to become a part of it. The applications are processed on a [...]

Well, not exactly. But close enough. According to Mplayit, a Facebook-based Application Aggregator for smartphones, only 17% of Android applications used are games. Compare this to 63% for iPhone users and 33% of Blackberry users, and the figures are quite surprising. Isn’t Android supposed to be built around openness and touch functionality? The iPhone has [...]