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It is no surprise to anyone who has covered either the computing or telecommunications markets for any length of time that manufacturers' visions of the future are centered around the ubiquity of the products they create. The 2007 vision of ubiquitous communications among carriers revolved around a kind of flip-phone with a detachable antenna you might wear on your head or in your pocket. When the iPhone happened, it was called "disruption," but really in the sense that a bad dream was disrupted by a better reality.

The 1995 vision of ubiquitous computing from Microsoft revolved around a universal acceptance of the role of packaged software; the word "Internet" was surgically inserted into a later draft of Bill Gates' The Road Ahead. So when you look carefully at concepts of an "Internet of Things" (IoT), if you're a veteran, you might want to focus on what these things are supposed to be. KORE Telematics President and COO Alex Brisbourne (whose business is machine-to-machine communication, or M2M) has done precisely that, and shares his thoughts with us in part 2 of his three-part discussion with ReadWriteWeb.

Renee James, Senior Vice President, <a href=" alt="" />Intel, announces the tablet user experience at Mobile World Congress 2011. She talks about the unique intuitive user experience that tablet PC users will benefit from and points to a growing eco-system of developers, 38,000 and climbing who are already dedicated to developing on the MeeGo platform. "Mobile MeeGo is ready to go," she says and cites 2011 and 2012 as the years in which products are coming to market. She also refers to the vast number of partners that are on board and also committed to MeeGo and how the open source platform is addressing the needs of the market.

Peter Biddle, Intel, explains the recent MWC announcements around MeeGo, pointing to the new MeeGo SDK now available and the specific focus on developing for tablet PCs. He talks about the sales opportunities for developers and refers to 15 store partnerships due to be announced soon. He references the work that has taken place that allows developers to support Air and Flash. He also explains how the AppUp store has gained developer traction and how the Intel AppUp store model is now a firmly established business model that with Intel's wide and strong support is only going to become bigger.

The AppUp developer program launched support for .NET applications by releasing the .NET SDK, along with an IDE Plug-In for Visual Studio 2008. This plug-in reduces development time to integrate the AppUp SDKs and builds the MSI needed to submit your application for distribution and sales via the Intel AppUp Center. The IDE Plug-in supports both the C/C++ and .NET SDK for Microsoft Windows when using Visual Studio 2008.

The AppUp developer program launched support for .NET applications by releasing the .NET SDK, along with an IDE Plug-In for Visual Studio 2008. This plug-in reduces development time to integrate the AppUp SDKs and builds the MSI needed to submit your application for distribution and sales via the Intel® AppUpSM Center. The IDE Plug-in supports both the C/C++ and .NET SDK for Microsoft Windows* when using Visual Studio 2008.

With the .NET SDK and support now available for the Intel AppUp developer program, here's a brief overview of the SDK's technical components, along with five quick steps to add the.NET SDK to Visual Studio 2008.

Bob Duffy takes a look at how two different iPhone developers ported their games to AppUp for netbooks running Windows. Duffy notes that while the two methods are very different, both follow some common practices. One approach was bold, the other very deliberate. Duffy compares the two approaches to the leaderships styles of two famous starship captains: James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard.

The preview of the Melrose Beta SDK from Adobe allows for Adobe AIR apps to be integrated into online stores such as the Intel AppUp center. The Atom Developer Program offers the SDK and accepts AIR apps. Now that AIR applications are supported in AppUp, it's probably a good idea to take inventory of what this means for developers.

The process for creating apps for netbook apps is very similar to creating apps for any other platform. You need to ask yourself who your audience is, how to hold their attention and what devices you are going to support. Dmitry Rizschkov has some advice for developers thinking about these questions.

Intel launched a beta version of its AppUp Center online store last January. Under the beta program, developers have known AppUp(SM) as a single storefront primarily supporting netbook applications developed in C or C++. Unfortunately, this history does not put the overall value of AppUp in proper context.

Here's a look back and forward to help you know what to expect with AppUp.

Day 2 of Intel AppUp Elements 2010 included topics to help developers make money with apps, promote apps to increase success, and understand the continuously evolving apps ecosystem. Attendees also had access to Blackbelt level developers and Adobe AIR developers.

Let's take a closer look.