INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Developers, during the past two years, have leveraged the iPhone OS to create more than 100,000 applications, from games to healthcare to social networking and beyond. Devices like the iPhone, iPod touch and the new iPad are giving techies – as well as consumers – opportunities to discover a new world of innovative, everyday technological marvels.
“The iPad and iPhone are clearly among the most engaging and potentially lucrative devices for application developers today”
On April 24-25, Pearson will host the second Voices That Matter: iPhone Developers Conference, at Seattle’s Bell Harbor Int’l Conference Center. Leading industry authors and experts will join developers to share their knowledge, and participate in discussions, how-to sessions, and networking opportunities around the topic of application development. The new iPad will be an integral part of conference activities.
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“The iPad and iPhone are clearly among the most
engaging and potentially lucrative devices for application developers
today,” said Barbara Gavin, conference manager for Pearson Education.
“The Voices That Matter Conference delivers incredible speakers in the
perfect environment for an unbiased and effective learning experience.”
About Pearson
The global leader in educational and
professional publishing, Pearson is home to such respected brands as
Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice
Hall Professional, Que, and Sams Publishing, which have as their online
publishing arm, InformIT (www.informit.com)
-The Trusted Technology Learning Source. In addition, Berkeley-based
Peachpit (www.peachpit.com),
the publishing partner for Adobe Press, Apple Certified, and others,
publishes best-selling books for creative design professionals. Pearson
is also co-founder, with O'Reilly Media Inc., of Safari Books Online (http://safari.informit.com),
the premier on-demand technology content library providing thousands of
expert reference materials through a single point of contact, including
expert technology, creative and design, industry and management
resources in video, audio and written formats. Pearson Education is part
of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. Pearson's other
primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin
Group.
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