Real-time location sharing service Glympse has announced a software development kit for developers, enabling them to integrate Glympse location technology and mapping into other products and applications.

The last few months have seen Glympse used by companies including BMW and MINI, Ford, Garmin and Mercedes-Benz.

Earlier this year RIM introduced a touchscreen smartphone called the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha. It ran a modified version of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS and was designed to help developers test their BlackBerry 10 apps before the platform is launched officially in January 2013.

RIM has now added a second developer device; the BlackBerry Dev Alpha C.

International telecoms provider Telenor has become the first network partner to join the BlueVia API platform.

BlueVia, created by Telefónica in 2010, helps developers create apps and web services that take advantage of Telefonica’s network APIs. It’ll now make Telenor APIs available on BlueVia as well, giving developers the ability to reach over 450 million customers.