Turn-by-turn directions service provider Telenav announced this morning the availability of a new offering called Scout for Apps, which makes it easy for developers of any native mobile or web app to add turn-by-turn spoken word directions in HTML5. The offering is free and...
Android devices are clearly the target of mobile malware with a 400% increase in Android infections in the latter part of 2011. So why is the Android platform so vulnerable?
Few would argue that there is nothing as un-sexy, yet more useful than voicemail. Sure, in this day and age of rampant text messaging and social media, the thought of leaving a voicemail message may seem quaint. But, is there really any more efficient...
Mobile apps that notify you when something or someone of interest is nearby, offline, are seeing a big wave of excitement leading into this weekend's kick-off of the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. Apps like Sonar, EchoEcho and most prominently Highlight.
Why...
Sprint Nextel has launched its Sprint TV App in the iOS app store, enabling millions of iPhone owners to watch free TV on their phones. Powered by MobiTV, the Sprint TV App will be free with Sprint's unlimited data plans. Free channels will include...
Mobile-health smartphone applications will take off in 2012, reaching $1.3 billion, according to a recent survey by market research and consultancy firm Research2guidance. The group estimates the current market size at $718 million.
“We think the m-health market will be mainly driven by private persons...
A new study, released by a bipartisan policy and political network of technology CEOs that promotes the growth of the innovation economy, shows that there are now roughly 466,000 jobs in the "App Economy" in the US, up from zero in 2007.
IBM is opening up beta availability of a new service called  IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices.  Built on the Tivoli Big Fix technology that IBM acquired in the Summer of 2010, the service allows enterprises to manage a wide range of mobile devices brought...
Travel and mobile applications ought to go together like peanut butter and jelly, but the cost of international data consumption generally stands in the way of using your phone to document the places you're going and the fun you're having. Poor connectivity can be...
The holidays are ending, but Austin's Tabbedout hopes the party will go on, and that bars and restaurants around town will let you use your smartphone to pay the bill. Today the company is launching a coupon feature within its free mobile app for...
Walmart has acquired Portland, Ore.-based Small Society, a mobile application development firm that has created apps for the 2008 Obama campaign, Starbucks, Zipcar, Amazon.com, Whole Foods, Live Nation and others. It's one of a number of high-profile recent acquisitions of small startups as Walmart...
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Much of Latin America can now access Apple Inc.’s iTunes Store as the company launched its music store today in Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.
The iTunes Store in Latin...
In a sign that the Web and mobile e-commerce are now meaningfully affecting even the most mundane parts of our lives, Domino's Pizza said Dec. 8 that it received more than 1 million orders placed online in a week for the first time last...
With thousands of applications available across multiple platforms, it’s easy to get lost in the crowd. The Apple App Store alone has over 500,000 applications, with the challenge now for app developers is to get noticed or to get a large number of downloads...
Physicians who need to quickly communicate time-sensitive information about their patients should no longer use text messages, according to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The group issued a "ban" on physicians communicating patient information via SMS, saying that because SMS can...
With Americans spending more time using smartphone apps than browsing the Web, application developers often have their pick of job offers -- especially if they develop for the Android operating system. But while employers are increasingly searching for Android developers, most full-time app developers...
Traffic in app stores could be almost as heavy as foot traffic in retail stores this Friday, as some of the nation's major retailers roll out apps meant to bring in foot traffic and online shoppers. Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), Anthropologie and...
Cisco hopes the answer is yes. Just a few days ahead of its much-anticipated earnings report, Cisco wooed developers Friday at Appcelerate, day three of the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco.
Cisco launched AppHQ a few months ago as a white-label app store...
MyTown2 may be blurring the lines between the real and virtual worlds, but there is nothing virtual about the success of Booyah, the company that created MyTown. The location-based mobile game has been picked up more than a 4.5 million users worldwide in its...
Appcelerator wants to get into the game – its Titanium platform is already used by 1.5 million developers, and now Appcelerator is buying Particle Code in an attempt to make Titanium more robust for gaming apps. Particle Code bills itself as "one code to...
"A small coffee, please." – As the barista uses a tablet to take your order, you check the balance of your bank account and look at the weather forecast on your smartphone. When your coffee arrives, you sit down and scroll through the latest news headlines on your smartphone. Convenient and easy, right?
HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the Web, a core technology of the Internet. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard and as of September 2011, is still under development. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices. You may ask, what the big deal, why should I care in wireless telecoms? The short answer is that HTML5 will be the technology that will create a multibillion dollar value chain disruption for app developers, enterprises, for Apple, for Google and for wireless operators – does that make it interesting enough?
