Apps

SCANBUY LAUNCHES MEXICO OFFICE AS MOBILE BARCODES GAIN TRACTION AROUND THE WORLD Millions of Users Already Have Application on Telcel Camera Phones New York, NY and Mexico City, MEXICO – …

Intel believes it knows what developers are –and are not – looking for in mobile platforms and plans to use the knowledge to win them over as part of its long term MeeGo strategy.

AUSTIN, Texas – American Bank of Texas in Marble Falls and Waggoner National Bank located in Vernon have launched First Data Corp.’s Mobile Manager mBanking for use on mobile devices …

Telefonica | February 10, 2011 | Press Release Telefonica announced today that it has launched a developer community, BlueVia, which will operate across Telefonica’s global footprint. BlueVia will build upon the …

While the Internet is rife with rumor surrounding what embattled Nokia Corp. plans to do next, cross platform app store GetJar has thrown its hat in the ring with the opinion Nokia should go Android and not Windows Phone 7.

The app store battle that used to rage between Apple Inc. and Google Inc. appears to have finally cooled down, with both parties seemingly happy that they have a huge enough catalogue of apps to satisfy even the most voracious smart phone user. However, some of the app distribution platforms on other systems leave a lot to be desired.

Google Inc. today went live with the page for their annual developer conference, I/O. Aside from being a very nice HTML5 page featuring animated bouncy balls (also check out the draggable logos and buttons – seriously, this is a cool site!), the site also opens up registration for those wishing to attend.

Google is “not happy” with current app sales in the Android marketplace according to Android platform manager Eric Chu speaking at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco yesterday.

PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into LG Android phones shipping in …

Ingrid Lunden| MocoNews | Dec 20, 2010 9:41 AM ET —Telefonica/BlueVia: The Spain-based operator Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), which has extensive operations throughout Europe as O2 and Latin America, is launching a new …

December 6, 2010 | AppTech Corp Press Release On December 1, 2010 AppTech Corp (Stock Symbol: APCX, www.AppTechGlobal.com) entered into a marketing agreement to develop a “Members Only” website and Smartphoneapp …

The GSMA has announced that Google will be exhibiting at Mobile World Congress for the first time

In a Q&A session with Research in Motion’s director of consumer alliances Alex McCallum, RCR finds out why it’s really Blackberry that makes mobile music tick. Or should we say Tick Tock?

et out of jail free? There’s an app for that – or at least, an Australian man has discovered there’s a way to prove his innocence from rape allegations by retrieving deleted text messages on his iPhone proving his liaisons with his accuser were consensual.

Americans are even less tolerant of travel agent trouble when it comes via mobile according to a new survey.
Travel research firm PhoCusWright polled 792 Americans traveling for pleasure rather than business over the past year and found many of them rather unforgiving of any mobile mishaps.

The economy may be tanking, but app developers aren’t suffering much, with a new report today claiming a whopping 25 billion mobile applications will have been downloaded by 2015, a figure that has skyrocketed from a paltry 2.6 billion applications downloaded in 2009.

Ovi store developers are certainly a surly bunch, with more than half of them unhappy with the way the Finnish phonemaker runs its app shop.

With all the apps and functions today’s phones can perform, we often tend to forget that their main purpose and basic function is to make actual phone calls.

You know what I’d actually pay to see on the Android app store? An app that combines a USB Host type setup, with Flickr capabilities, but as a single downloadable app. Any of you aspiring Android developers out there reading this, can have this idea free

Nokia is doing a bit of early morning house cleaning, it seems, closing down its Ovi store for an indeterminable period of time.

Originally built for the Symbian platform, EyeSight’s product portfolio – which includes a dozen or so games and applications relying on optical recognition via the phone’s camera – will now also be coming to Android.