Just found an excellent video that gives good insight into the gaming startup world, but more importantly the power of Facebook to drive new business for these gaming startups. Check out the video if you have 11:03 minutes. Key nugget comes at 1:04.

Ever wonder what your text sounds like? Now you can listen with the new Text to Speech transcription feature for the Speech API.

HTML5 is positioned to be the #3 development platform in 2013, just behind iOS and Android.

We recently updated all of our Speech to Text contexts to also support the recognition of speech at a limited distance.

Are you passionate about doing good for society and helping others with your technical skills? This week, the AT&T Developer Program, AT&T Sustainability and Environmental Defense Fund are issuing a challenge to developers participating in TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 to build an open sourced app that helps drive water efficiency for buildings.

With In App Messaging from Mobile Number, application developers have the ability to expand the use of their services and keep customers engaged longer.

Can't wait another minute longer to find out what was built in NYC last weekend?

Do you have an awesome app idea that you are interested in developing? How well can you pitch your idea? Have you tried pitching the idea to friends? Try using our idea template to hone down your idea and maybe even use the template to play a pitch game with your friends!

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AT&T Hackathon - Getting Started Template.pdf ‏27 KB

Whether the BlackBerry team intended it or not, they actually created a better, cheaper way for developers to get started and make some decent revenue.

Dust off your ARO skills and win an HTC OneX+!  We’ve created a sample app that needs some sprucing up and challenge you to use ARO to figure out what kind of optimization mess it’s in.

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SpringCleanTrace.zip ‏775 KB

terms_and_conditions_AROspring cleaning challenge_20130418.pdf ‏125 KB

AT&T Mobile App Hackathon was in San Francisco this last weekend with @autismspeaks  for a very productive autism focused hackathon.

We’re thrilled to introduce two new features for the AT&T adapters for IBM Worklight – Advertising API and Text to Speech as part of the AT&T Speech API. 

We’re pleased to announce the new AT&T Advertising API.

Some of our Speech API experts will be taking over the AT&T Developer Program Twitter feed on Wednesday, April 17 at 11:00AM PST, for a live Q&A.

NFC is a technology that is supported by a large ecosystem. The key players consist of