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Two major conferences set for May and June including an iPhone track.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced developer event details this week aimed at independent creators of the programs so crucial to the success of both companies. A few noteworthy items in the announcements. Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco will now include a track for iPhone developers. Four days after the release of the beta of its software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone, Apple said this week there has been over 100,000 downloads of the software. WWDC is June 9-13. Conference attendees will likely be exposed to final, or very near-final, features of the finished SDK, which is due out by the end of June. It's clear from the program, that Apple expects interest from developers working on some pretty flashy applications (though not based on the Flash animation format which the iPhone currently doesn't support)! The agenda says attendees will be able to learn from Apple graphics and media engineers about media-rich mobile applications and cutting-edge handheld games for the iPhone. Sessions will include techniques to animate user interfaces, render interactive 2D and 3D graphics in real-time and how to support video download and playback. RELATED ARTICLES Google's Android SDK Comes Alive Google's OpenSocial Gets MySpace Endorsement Apple's iPhone SDK Off to The Races Google Has Goodies For Developers For more stories on this topic: In... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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