Edward Kim writes an interested (albeit unverifiable) post about how much money he made from app sales. Read it here: “My last Android app sales figures, and why its still great to start a mobile app business. – Edward Kim.”
Touchscreens have been with us for decades—and they’ve been the mobile input method of choice for many of us for about 5 years. In fact, many junior designers and developers—or at least those who were late to the mobile party—have never owned a mobile phone for which buttons were the primary input method. But there [...]
An FTC study has examined both the privacy policies and actual practices within each of the 400 apps -Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market- that were selected for review, finding that only 16 percent provided a privacy policy to parents before downloading and 20 percent after downloading. The disclosures provided were often full information that would [...]
As a result of losing the direct viewing of Instagram photos Twitter went swiftly ahead in releasing a photo filtering service. The service will be very familiar to Instagram users who will still be able to share their filtered photos but they will appear as a simple link rather than a rich media preview of [...]
Adverts on smartphones and other roaming devices could become obsolete under plans by Adblock. On the 27th November 2012] Eyeo – developer of AdBlock Plus – will launch a version of its popular program for Android phones in a move that is likely to cause headaches for the mobile advertising industry. Some 50 million people have already [...]
Kickfolio is a neat little start-up backed company that is really making a push to be relevant. Kickfolio offers, “a way for developers to upload builds of their mobile applications to its platform, allowing others to then interact with the apps on the web, as opposed to having to download a test build locally to their mobile [...]
Cardign is an app that essentially puts a name to a face. The app uses the facial recognition as a sort of QR code to pull up information. If you want to connect via social media and you are at a conference all you have to do in snap a picture of their face. After [...]
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 [...]
The new Premium Suite upgrade from Samsung has added some new features to Galaxy S3. Samsung launched a video today showing just some of the features coming to its flagship handset. The upgrade, which was previously announced for the Galaxy Note 10.1, adds a new featured called Page Buddy that predicts what the users want to do based on [...]
“Samsung is gearing up to produce plastic flexible displays for mobile devices, the Wall Street Journal reported. The screens are lightweight, nearly unbreakable, and could result in flexible devices down the road.” via Technology News: Emerging Tech: Samsung Channels Gumby With Unbreakable, Bendy Phone Screen.
Marketing companies have been focusing on the number of cores a smartphone has as a major selling point in recent years. The obsession with mobile processors has been a boon to the chip makers, giving added visibility to companies such as Qualcomm and Nvidia. Recently however, the chip industry has gotten to the point where [...]
” Samsung announced on its Samsung Tomorrow blog that the Galaxy S III will be getting a special “Premium Suite” upgrade that will add Galaxy Note II features such as Multi Window, Page Buddy and Contextual Awareness and more. With Multi Window, users can open two app windows at once, Page Buddy will add smart [...]
“Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced today that the four largest wireless carriers in the U.S. have agreed to fast track a service that will let people text the emergency 911 line. AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and T-Mobile have all signed on and major deployments are planned to roll out in 2013 and the [...]
“Today’s word that T-Mobile plans to sell Apple products in 2013 certainly sounds like great news to the iPhone and TMO faithful. The question remains, however, if the carrier can deal with the increased load Apple’s uber-phone will put on its network. ” [source]
Mike Krieger wants companies to think about whether they’re getting the design right or if they have the right design. He fleshes his theory out by providing eight basic principles that will help build products that users really want: understanding, observing, synthesizing, ideating, prototyping, and iterating. Read more here.
“Canada’s wireless industry is vowing to combat mobile device theft following months of pressure from the federal telecom regulator, police and politicians. The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, an industry group representing carriers, announced a plan on Thursday to make it more difficult for criminals to reactivate stolen devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers. At [...]
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 [...]
If you want to get an inexpensive smartphone from T-Mobile, you’d better do it fast. FierceWireless reports that T-Mobile will formally kill off its smartphone subsidies in 2013 and will replace them with a new system where customers “pay an upfront fee for their devices and then pay the balance of the device in affordable monthly installments T-Mobile smartphone subsidies end [...]
Link New smartphone regulations in China have caused concern among technology companies. The regulations, filed by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to a WTO database of technical barriers to trade. China’s WTO trade barrier notification listed safety, rather than national security, as the chief reason for the regulations. China has long made use [...]
New startup called AddAppt has introduced their app for the Apple AppStore. The application allows the user to sync their contacts information between users mobile, desktop, and iCloud address books. Some of the functionality on synching contacts already exists but the new startup claims to have found the right solution for the problem. The app [...]
Mobile devices are a key player in the growth of Social Media with consumers, in fact it allowed for 63 percent of the year-over-year growth in users accessing social media through mobile apps and mobile websites. Forty-six percent of social media users say they use their smartphone to access social media, and 16 percent say they use [...]
Cyber Monday was a big success with shoppers taking in 8.5 million page views per minute and online sales that jumped 30.3% over 2011. Mobile access to deals presented some issues, including app performance issues within retail stores. There were also some worthy attempts at reaching mobile users, like Macy’s apps offering “unpublished” deals to shoppers who are [...]
T mobile recently invested four billion dollars in a bid to upgrade its network to 4G LTE technology. This has led analysts to believe that the wireless carrier may finally be offering the iPhone 5 to its customers. Since it was initially announced that the iPhone would not be coming to T Mobile, they have [...]
A number of tech companies including Samsung, LG, and Nokia are working on designing flexible handsets. These ‘bendy’ phones will use flexible OLED technology, and will allow phones to have a degree of durability never before seen. Users will be able to fold, roll, or even wear their phones. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20526577
Basis has finally started shipping their health tracking wrist watch on Thursday. The watch/health tracker hopes to, “to capitalize on the desire by offering a gadget and Web interface designed to make it easier and more interesting to do the work necessary to achieve a healthier lifestyle.” Although the watch is currently sold out on [...]
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) [...]
“Mozilla has taken its first step into the VC world, investing in Everything.me to support the startup’s efforts in creating HTML5 mobile app technology. Everything.me, formerly DoAT, provides technology that enables smartphones to quickly and easily match a user’s needs with the most relevant HTML5 content. The Israel-based company plans to use the funding to [...]
We’ve been hearing the claim that “there are more mobile phones in the world than there are toothbrushes” for a while now. It’s important for marketers to think about what that actually means for them. According to a recent Pew Internet report, 46% of American adults own a smartphone. We’re deep in a world of mobile [...]
“Video-sharing service Vimeo has launched a new iPhone application that has been built from the ground up. The company’s redesigned application, which hit the Apple App Store today, allows users to both create and share videos all from within the app. In addition, users will now find easier access to their video queue and simpler [...]
BOSTON, Nov. 30, 2012 – /PRNewswire/ – Fiksu, Inc. (www.fiksu.com), developer of the award-winning Fiksu for Mobile Apps Marketing Platform that combines advanced media optimization technology with the world’s largest app media inventory, today reported that app downloads dramatically increased by 33 percent in October following the new iPhone 5′s Sept. 21 arrival. In tandem, the cost to acquire a [...]
Now language translation apps for smartphones can do much, much more than that old plastic device with the rubbery buttons and one-line display. Many of them let you speak or type a question in English and have that instantly translated into a foreign tongue, which the app can speak out loud or display on the [...]
Smartphones makes the user’s life more convenient in many ways and much of it is because of all the information the phone stores about the user. Advertisers and business are already offering many services that allow the user to check-in to places or offer them location-based deals but there is expectations that this type of advertising will [...]
DataWind will be releasing the Akash2 soon, designed for those who desire a tablet but do not have the money. At its cheap price of 40 dollars, offering multitudes of features such as 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of flash memory, and USB hub. The tablet was not designed to be an Ipad killer as stated by [...]
Link Today, Dell announced support for several new platforms that makes PocketCloud Explore even more flexible and compelling than before. Every single Dell Inspiron and Dell XPS sold after November 15th has already started shipping with the PocketCloud Companion PC client preinstalled. Even better, you’ll be able to connect to those computers (or any PC [...]
By the end of this year, the mobile app industry will have generated more than $30 billion in revenue since four years ago, according to a report on mobile markets by ABI Research, a tech analysis firm. The report takes into account money made from app purchases, in-app purchases (such as upgrades inside video game apps), [...]
At the Terrey Hills school, students can choose their own devices, unlike most public schools where students are given a laptop. Mr Harris said the Bring Your Own Device model meant students took more responsibility for their own equipment. The school used the Federal Government’s Digital Education Revolution funding to upgrade its wireless network instead [...]
Today’s news of Black Friday madness is making the “holiday” even more unappealing to the average shopper. From long lines to outright violence shoppers are looking to the Internet for comparable deals and an overall better (and safer) shopping experience. This New York Times story discusses how retailers are using mobile applications, like interactive store [...]
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 [...]
Apple has had more than a few items on its agenda of late – releasing the iPhone 5, iPad 4, iPad mini, paying billions in dividends to shareholders, etc. Apple’s been so busy that only last week did the Cupertino, California-based tech giant finally get around to trademarking “iPad mini.” According to Patently Apple, only [...]
Have you ever been at a store and pulled out your smartphones to check out reviews before you purchase an item? Apparently this is just scratching the surface of what mobile enabled shopping is headed towards. This article and infographic give us a sneak peak into the role that mobile will play in the new [...]
Nexus is releasing 3 new devices, all in time for the holidays. The most interesting aspect to note is that they all offer the same features as difference sizes. Nexus calls their devices small, medium and large which begs the question, ‘are there varying markets for different sized mobile devices?” It seems like many mobile [...]
“Samsung is currently putting the final touches on flexible displays made of plastic rather than glass, The Wall Street Journal is reporting today, citing an unidentified source with knowledge of the company’s plans. Once Samsung’s development phase is complete, the company plans to start mass producing the displays for release in the first half of [...]
Adobe Systems Inc. has added new tools to insert advertisements into online video content. The new tools are part of Project Primetime, Adobe’s service for distributing video on computers, smartphones and other Internet-connected devices. A new ad-insertion tool called MediaWeaver “mirrors broadcast TV” in the way it inserts ads into programming, Adobe said Thursday. For [...]
Today, Wall Street Journal reported that Google were putting their final touches on its new “Google Maps” app. With that being said, the app should be released into app stores soon. Considering the app has more features than the one created by Apple, Google will have to keep their fingers crossed and hope Apple accepts [...]
DiSH Network recently acquired from the FCC permission to use a part of the wireless spectrum typically reserved for cell phone carriers. Now reports are indicating that Google will partner with DiSH Network to eventually launch their own wireless carrier. Google is launching its Glass headgear next year, and could benefit greatly from having control [...]
Voyager Mobile has introduced its new international communications technology at the MVNOs Industry Summit USA 2012 in Dallas, Texas. Project Global Voyager is Voyager Mobile’s exclusive, patent-pending global wireless technology that promotes cell phone usage across the world – without any roaming charges, period. “It’s technology that promotes collaboration between companies, vendors, employees, and customers [...]
Samsung recently started mass production of a 64GB eMMC solution for mobile devices, and now they’re going one step forward by announcing the next-generation 64GB flash storage that uses 10nm-class process technology. According to the Korean company, this new 64GB NAND (64GB eMMC Pro Class 2000) is 30% faster than the previous generation, while achieving [...]