With the announcement of the new BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook, Research In Motion has extended the free PlayBook offer for developers. Developers now looking to get in on the offer have up until March 15th, 2011 to get apps in, reviewed and accepted into BlackBerry App World for launch of the PlayBook. Pretty awesome if Adobe development wasn't your thing, you can now leverage the WebWorks SDK to your advantage.
Source: Blackberry DevBlog
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