Earlier we heard that the iPad OS 3.2 was made available to developers, but now we’re hearing about the fine print in the licensing agreement of the OS: More

The newest release of the Android Native Development Kit offers developers OpenGL ES 2.0 support. This means that they’ll have an easier time incorporating 3D elements in games and apps for Android 2.0 or higher. [ Android Developers Blog via Engadget ]

Apple’s making life simpler for developers with the iPhone 3.2 Beta 3 SDK which makes it easier to develop universal apps by allowing devs to easily update “existing iPhone projects to include the necessary files to support” iPads. [ Apple ] Updated. Update: Commenter apple1loop and others are reporting that Apple has pulled the SDK from their developer website. No word on why this happened just yet.

Since switching from paid iPhone game apps to a free-to-play model with in-game purchases, iPhone game startup ngmoco has managed to raise $25 million in venture capital funding. That’s enough to buy up another top developer and expand even further. Freeverse, the company bought up by ngmoco, is is behind paid iPhone games such as Skee-Ball, Flick Fishing, Flick Bowling, and Moto Chaser. There’s no word on whether the purchase will lead to a change in the sales model, but it’ll definitely lead to us seeing the familiar ngmoco logo even more. [ Tech Crunch via Business Insider ]

Late last week word hit the Android community that the developer of the Cyanogen Android ROM received a cease-and-desist from everyone’s favorite “do no evil” company, Google. Many reacted negatively to Google asking a developer to not modify what is purported to be an open-source operating system, but the issue was not with the OS; rather it was with the apps that ship on it, things like Google Maps and Gmail — things that are most definitely not open source — which Google does not want distributed on modified flavors of Android. The solution, according to the dev, is to simply remove them from the ROM, but to provide a way for users to install them back on their devices. The dev will be working on an app that will enable users to back up those applications and then, after the ROM has been installed, to restore them like new. It certainly sounds like a tidy way around Google’s restrictions, albeit one that is going to take a considerable amount of time to implement, the net result of which will be exactly like before. That leaves us wondering: was this really worth the bad PR for the Googs

Good times! It looks like Dev Team’s UltraSn0w unlock works with an iPhone 3GS that’s been jailbroken via purplera1n. But be warned: Some users are reporting mixed success. On Friday, George Hotz (aka the guy who unlocked the original iPhone 2G) released his purplera1n iPhone 3GS jailbreak tool. On the Dev Team’s decision to wait until iPhone OS version 3.1 is released, Hotz sniped: “Normally I don’t make tools for the general public, and rather wait for the dev team to do it. But guys, whats up with waiting until 3.1? That isn’t how the game is played