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http://mobile.siliconindia.com/news/IBS-Group-Member-Launches-New-Mobile-Apps-Development-Kit-for-Aerospace-nid-135929.html A member of IBS Group and a leading global provider of advanced application and product development services, recently introduced a Mobile Applications Development Kit for engineering needs of aerospace and other enterprise, at the Aeromart Toulouse 2012. The new kit adds another dimension to Luxoft’s existing technology solutions portfolio for engineers and includes a Mobile Bill [...]

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=70673 Some of the most common security gaffs nestled inside of those decompiled and inspected Android apps according to Godfrey Nolan, founder of RIIS and author of both Decompiling Java and Decompiling Android? Without using obfuscating tools like HoseDex2Jar, people can easily reverse engineer the code in most Android applications. Sensitive data is being stored unencrypted on devices. Code that [...]

While some see potential in Microsoft’s Surface tablet, most industry watchers appear to have written off the device at this point. Orders were reportedly cut in half following a slow launch, and Microsoft’s debut slate has been hammered time and time again by reviewers and analysts. The latest to pile on is Boston-based brokerage firm Detwiler [...]

As smartphones increasingly store sensitive information, we’ll need better authentication methods to protect that data. Typing a password into your smartphone might be a reasonable way to access the sensitive information it holds, but a startup called EyeVerify thinks it would be easier—and more secure—to just look into the phone’s camera lens and move your [...]

http://readwrite.com/2012/11/28/trickle-down-mobile-economy-is-a-big-holiday-opportunity-for-app-developers As consumer behavior shifts to adapt to the Mobile Revolution, mobile apps are as much part of people’s media consumption as are television, movies, music and video games. Mobile apps are made to encompass all of those media categories and more. “In particular, on Thanksgiving day, usage jumped by about 20% for that Thursday [...]

http://www.wired.com/insights/2012/11/mobility-changes-the-shape-of-app-development/ Dion Picco is Manager, Product Management at Progress Software.  These are his insights on how mobile application development will evolve. Organizations want to modernize their existing applications, resulting in a much more mobile-first approach. This includes moving the back end from on-premise servers to a more cloud-based architecture (whether that’s public, private or hybrid) [...]

“As consumers and enterprises increasingly expect always-on connectivity anywhere they go, operators around the world face unprecedented challenges,” Yankee analyst Declan Lonergan said in a statement. “Not only are they tasked with investing in new infrastructure and rolling out next-generation LTE networks at an ever-faster pace (in a decidedly harsh economic climate), but they must [...]

Link European and Canadian enterprises are allowing BYOD in increasing numbers, with more than over half of the enterprises accepting it. However, it’s only slowly as people still question the security of doing so. This would bring a great influx of employees with their personal mobile computers and other devices in the office, which is [...]

“The U.S. mobile market is a big one, with 321.7 million subscribers as of second quarter of 2012. That’s a 101% mobile penetration, which means the number of lines equals the population. But while the nation is serviced by four major carriers today, T-Mobile thinks the market is not big enough for four big carriers [...]

“The U.S. mobile market is a big one, with 321.7 million subscribers as of second quarter of 2012. That’s a 101% mobile penetration, which means the number of lines equals the population. But while the nation is serviced by four major carriers today, T-Mobile thinks the market is not big enough for four big carriers [...]

DuckDuckGo is a relatively new search engine, and a wannabe competitor against Google. The search engine, which promotes itself as a “fair search” competitor to Google, has been extensively endorsed by sites like The New York Times, PCMag.com, and even on Search Engine Land, as a long-term threat to Google search dominance. It was one [...]

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/mobile-phone/3411136/mobile-app-developers-speak-stick-one-platform/#ixzz2D4S0vjfp Tom Verhoeff, app developer and partner at Holland-based Methylium, which created the Windows 8 app for Booking.com, a popular online hotel reservation site “What I always recommend is to focus on one platform because every platform has its own tricks and quirks. I don’t think it’s a good idea to build an iOS app [...]

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/telecommunications/how-mobile-apps-developers-can-best-target-geolocation Amber Case, CEO and her small team at Geoloqi says that we can provide better time saving function for the user. Most geolocation, (Case insists), is polling-based. Get on a bus, for example, and you need to be constantly aware of the next stop, or else check your phone every few minutes, to make sure [...]

According to Jefferies and Co, Apples revolutionary television may be hitting stores new you sooner than you may think . “The new device — which may or may not be a more advanced version of the company’s Apple TV set-top box rather than an actual television set — will likely combine the innovation and developer [...]

Google updated its developer agreement earlier this week and included a clause that addresses fragmentation. The new paragraph added to the terms and conditions for Google’s Android SDK says, “You agree that you will not take any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android, including but not limited to distributing, participating [...]

Qualcomm hopes to make mobile phones just as adept at pinpointing your location within a building as they are at tracking your presence on city streets. The company announced on Thursday an ambitious plan to extend indoor positioning capabilities to all future handsets and Wi-Fi networks powered by its chips using a combination of GPS, Wi-Fi and [...]

http://mashable.com/2012/11/14/mobile-app-analytics-tips/ Analytics is key to measuring the execution and value of all the hard work you put into the app. There is a variety of platforms and services vying for the privilege of providing you with good app data. So what can you do?  Here are some things to think about: 1. Start Using App [...]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2014082/brightcove-application-craft-aim-at-phonegap-with-cloudbased-development-tools.html “Brightcove’s native plug-in architecture for its App Cloud and Application Craft’s launch of Mobile Build are the latest examples of how cross-platform development tools for mobile apps are becoming increasingly cloud-centric.” Brightcove’s new plug-in architecture does something else… “It allows developers build that particular piece of functionality themselves, and add it to their application,” said [...]

Wi-Fi wireless LANs (WLANs) have been displacing wired Ethernet as a preferred means of client access for years. Two years ago, we asked readers about wireless plans: Our InformationWeek Wireless LAN survey found about 40% of respondents predicting that they would largely replace wired access infrastructure within five years. Fast forward and it’s likely that [...]

Mobile digital X-ray vendors need to step up their connectivity capabilities, concluded a recent report by KLAS. “Mobile Digital X-ray 2012: Moving in the Right Direction,” ranked four vendors on mobility, image quality, wireless connectivity and battery life. Although image quality is good among vendors, the report determined, issues arise with wireless connectivity and transferring [...]

App measurement and ad company Flurry has revealed significant traction for its iOS and Android app advertising and targeting platform, AppSpot. The platform was made publicly available just over three weeks ago and has attracted more than 1,000 app publishers to sign up, according to the company.Flurry described revenue performance of the first 500 applications already live as [...]

http://9to5mac.com/2012/11/09/facebook-product-manager-talks-facebook-for-ios-retooling-the-mobile-development-process/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29 Facebook product manager Michael Sharon shared how it has retooled its development process and integrated features from its standalone app into Facebook for iOS. retooled our development process–from making every product team responsible for their experience across desktop and mobile, to switching to native code and timed release cycles–we’ve been able to make sure the [...]

http://www.sfgate.com/business/prweb/article/Freshdesk-Launches-MobiHelp-the-Free-in-app-Help-4022694.php With Freshdesk’s MobiHelp SDK, app developers can integrate their Freshdesk help desk into their apps with just a single line of code. Developers get to use all the powerful customer support capabilities in Freshdesk to automate workflows, identify critical issue areas and complete the conversation loop with their users.  The Freshdesk MobiHelp SDK is free. [...]

The lobby group for Australian telcos has declared that SMS technology should no longer be considered a safe means of verifying the identity of an individual during a banking transaction. Communications Alliance chief executive John Stanton, representing the interests of mobile providers Telstra, Optus and Vodafone, took the extraordinary step of of declaring the technology [...]

Tech Breakthrough Could Double Mobile Device Battery Life Scientists from US startup Eta Devices claim to have invented a technology that could double the battery life of an average smartphone, without interfering with the batteries themselves. The breakthrough is related to the power amplifiers – chips that control energy distribution in mobile devices. Called ‘asymmetric [...]

Dunkin Donuts develop an advertisement to attract more users of their app. With the words “Pay With Your Smart Phone” more people are inclined to download and use the app. The percentage number of users have been very lucrative for the Dunkin Donuts establishment. Link

“Google is today announcing mobile support for its Google Wallet checkout service, whichexpanded to include micropayments for web content earlier this month. At that time, Google said it would allow online shoppers to purchase premium digital content, ideally priced under $1.00, which also included a 30-minute money-back refund. Today, Google is expanding its service yet again to [...]

Digital metrics firm comScore today released its most recent mobile market share report, detailing trends in the mobile industry for the three month period ending in September. The survey of over 30,000 mobile subscribers in the U.S. revealed that smartphone penetration topped 50 percent for the first time ever in the study’s history, with Android [...]

http://www.formtek.com/blog/?p=3360 PhoneGap uses standard HTML/HTML5, CSS and Javascript.  PhoneGap provides hooks in Javascript that permit access to native device functionality, like geolocation,  the camera, and the accelerometer.  PhoneGap applications basically run on the native browser for the mobile device, but they are packaged and made to appear to the user as native apps. The AgilIQ blog has an interesting [...]

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/11/01/4955572/as-cellular-markets-change-a-trio.html Predictions of the technology landscape can aid developers understand what could be needed in new application designs.  Keeping in pace with disruptive technology can make an application design.  Here are some services to not only help carriers but also developers stay in stride. Mobile Operators Strategies Analysis Service MOSA – The only web-based service [...]

The ongoing debate over how to best get applications onto mobile devices — either through native deployments or writing a mobile Web application — is going to remain a front-burner question for developers to ponder, given the pros and cons of both, developers say. Developers see benefits to both approaches, as well as to hybrid [...]

ItsOn’s technology could allow mobile subscribers to tailor their data plans according to the services they use.  For example, rather than monitoring how many megabytes you’re using watching Netflix, a carrier could offer a flat monthly rate just for video streaming. The same could be done just for e-mail or social networking. With the ItsOn [...]

The last thing people probably consider when buying a new gizmo or gadget is how hard it might be to fix, but according to the teardown team at iFixit, Microsoft’s shiny new Surface tablet is easier to repair than the latest iPad, but it is still difficult to take apart.   The online teardown site [...]

Apple (AAPL) customers are famed for their loyalty, but it looks as though some of them may not be as fanatical as they’ve been in the past. New data from Strategy Analytics shows that 75% of iPhone owners in Western Europe said they would buy an Apple device for their next smartphone, versus 88% who [...]

The stakes are significant for an industry that is still finding its way in the mobile world. Advertisers will spend a relatively small amount of money on ads on phones and tablets this year — $2.6 billion, according to eMarketer, less than 2 percent of the amount they will spend over all. Yet that is [...]

At first glance it seems that this short guide is chock-full of obvious advice e.g. put your address in a prominent place. Duh! But you would be surprised how many small companies forgo a lot of this seemingly obvious advice. Here are the tips-in-brief: -If you depend on local customers for your business, make sure [...]

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/10/25/4366612/samsung-opens-new-opportunities.html Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced the availability of Arndale, a new community development board designed around its Exynos 5 Dual system-on-chip (SoC). The Exynos 5 Dual features the implementation of both the world’s first dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A15 MPCore™ processor and the world’s first quad-core ARM Mali™-T604 GPU based on 32nm High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) process [...]

“Freemium iOS apps eclipsed 50 percent mark in the US about a year ago. But in the last year, the momentum behind freemium apps has only grown stronger, according to new data from app analytics firm App Annie. App Annie Intelligence, which tracks more than 700,000 apps, found that global revenues for freemium apps on iOS have [...]

“Google Maps has officially stepped into what may be its most difficult challenge yet — mapping the alleys, ledges and trails of the world unreachable by Street View’s cars, tricycles and snowmobiles. The effort formally began on foot Monday as Google took three of its Trekker backpacks down into the Grand Canyon for the new [...]

Nokia, once the leading global smartphone manufacturer, has fallen so far behind Samsung and Apple that it no longer registers as a Top 5 vendor, according to market analysts IDC. Nokia has ranked among the Top 5 vendors since IDC first began tracking smartphone shipments in 2004, but the company fell behind Research In Motion, [...]

he Philippine government has launched a mobile phone application which can provide real-time information on rainfall and flooding to the general public. The Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards (NOAH), which aims to provide information about bad weather and thus mitigate disasters such as floods, typhoons and landslides, launched itswebsite in July, and now a free mobile [...]

http://www.mobileeurope.co.uk/news/blog/9506-ericsson-releases-webrtc-enabled-mobile-browser Ericsson has released what it is terming an “experimental” WebRTC-enabled browser on the Apple’s USA App Store and on Google Play. The browser is called Bowser.  The browser “will finally enable web developers to add audio and video functionality to their mobile web applications” the company said. WebRTC is based on work ongoing within the World Wide Web [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — In the crowded mobile payments space, a major player is about to make a long-awaited debut. Isis, a mobile commerce network founded by three of the nation’s biggest wireless carriers – Verizon Wireless (VZ, Fortune 500), AT&T (T,Fortune 500) and T-Mobile — will launch in its first two cities, Austin and Salt Lake City, on Monday, October [...]

Distimo has put out information in their latest report that suggests while English may be the dominant language in the western world, success in the east requires apps to speak the native tongue. There are three countries where English is not king: Japan, China, and South Korea. In these countries, apps that use the native tongue are [...]

According to a study by audience management firm Playnomics, roughly 85 percent of new players in the US never went back to playing their games after the first day. The study also reveals that “almost 95% of all US players acquired the first part of Q3 were inactiv by the end of Q3″. The study [...]

Graphene is a carbon-based material that is stronger than steel and extremely thin. Scientists are still trying to figure out how to economically produce large quantities of graphene. Once it is cheap to produce graphene it can be used to create cell phones almost as thin as paper and yet still very strong. Right now graphene is [...]

“A survey measuring people’s internet use used to be a fairly simple thing. If you dialed up and logged onto CompuServe or AOL, you were “online” until you disconnected. Even in more recent years, you were “online” for as long as you were looking at a web browser or a chat window. But things have [...]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CEQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tlu.ee%2F~kpata%2FharidustehnoloogiaTLU%2Fmobilesharples.pdf&ei=hEV4UMDxKYOC9gTS8oCYBQ&usg=AFQjCNHAQM__v8k24lhoGNDFsoThON3NIg&sig2=m6hkgXr3Kb-ohkT8lf-xHg Disruptive Devices: Mobile Technology for Conversational Learning Mike Sharples- A dilemma at the heart of networked learning is that learners can command an increasingly sophisticated set of communication and computing devices, which they are forbidden to use within formal education because they disrupt lessons and lectures. Meanwhile, schools, colleges and universities are starved of IT resources, and [...]

While much of the focus in the tablet space is on the iPhone, there are a growing number of Android tablets in play, such as the new Nexus 7 tablet. Developers who want to insure they are delivering a strong mobile experience across devices and create optimized apps for Android tablet users are finding meaningful [...]

Mobile operators including those operating from Nigeria are set to lose $54 billion by 2016 in revenues that would normally accrue from short messaging service (SMS) to over the top (OTT) service popularly known as social messaging. Already, all the global operators are set to lose $23 billion in SMS revenue by the end of [...]