July 03 - 02:05pm EDT   Trichotomy Media is complaining that its Naughty Loaded Dice iPhone app has, possibly, been quietly rejected by Apple. The app has yet to receive an approval or a rejection after a month, and should therefore still be sitting in Apple's queue. The company notes that although the app does focus on bedroom activity, it still stays clear of any profanity or explicit images. [full story]

July 01 - 04:30pm EDT   LightWork Design has announced the latest version of its 3D rendering engine, LightWorks 8.1. The code is designed for developers of 3D graphics software, and allows them to create a wide range of rendering functions and simulated effects such as radiosity and ambient occlusion. Version 8.1 focuses on real-time rendering, and includes improvements to EPix output such as anti-aliasing. When using programmable shading, real-time rendering has been given support for soft shadows and shadow catching. [full story]

June 30 - 11:10pm EDT   Right on the heels of the iPhone 3.0 firmware update, Apple has released a beta version of the iPhone SDK 3.1 to developers. Although the SDK is still in the testing phase, Apple included approximately 15 new OpenGL tools for 3D modeling and graphics, according to MobileCrunch. VideoEditorController and Video Picker APIs could allow third-party apps to bring up the video editing interface. [full story]

June 30 - 08:50pm EDT   Apple has reversed its rejection of Metaversal Studios' "Hot Dog Down a Hallway" app for the iPhone, while rejecting egrev.lab's "15 with Soviet Leaders" puzzle game. An update to Hot Dog Down a Hallway was recently rejected by Apple for "explicit content," despite the approval of earlier versions that were even given an age rating of nine and up on the App Store. [full story]

June 28 - 06:55pm EDT   Site9 has announced a beta version of its Native iPhone Prototype viewer, enabling developers to interact with their apps for testing. The viewer negates the traditional flash viewers, instead utilizing HTML code. The web-based app provides a container to hold an application's wireframes during app construction. The container is then uploaded to the Protoshare server and accessible using Safari on the iPhone, making the prototype application function like a regular app. [full story]

June 26 - 07:15pm EDT   Apple on Friday confirmed it has removed Hottest Girls from the App Store due to images of topless women. Developer Allen Leung initially claimed to have 'sold out' of the app and removed the title on his own will due to server usage, but the inaccurate explanation was later removed from the site. [full story]

June 25 - 04:40pm EDT   Eclipse has announced Galileo, an annual release of open-source applications. The apps are submitted by the Eclipse community, and in 2009 represent 380 committers from 44 different organizations. The collection consists of 33 projects, including Mac Cocoa support, domain-specific language modeling, and updates to Equinox. [full story]

June 23 - 07:20pm EDT   Portland Group has released v9.0 of its PGI line of parallelization compilers and development tools. The update is the first release to include support for the PGI Accelerator programming model on x64-based Linux systems utilizing NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPUs. The PGI Accelerator Fortran and C compilers are designed to automatically analyze a program's structure and data as well as to split portions of the application between a multi-core x64 CPU and a GPU. The portions split between each device are controlled by a user's preferences. The PGI Accelerator additionally defines and generates maps of loops, enabling parallel cores to be used simultaneously, with support for ... [full story]

June 15 - 05:45pm EDT   iPhone game developer ngmoco has appointed former SEGA president and COO Simon Jeffery to serve as the chief publishing officer of the Plus+ Publishing group. The gaming industry veteran also brings experience from LucasArts, Virgin Interactive and Electronic Arts. At SEGA, Jeffery helped the company shift from a hardware manufacturer to a software developer. [full story]

June 12 - 05:00pm EDT   360Works has released ScriptMaster 3, an update to its FileMaker plug-in that handles file manipulation, web services and shell scripting. The latest version contains a redesigned user interface, and new modules such as Crop Image, QuickTime frame capture and URLDecode. New functions let users retrieve size information, create a ZIP archive or run syntax checks on XML tests. [full story]