Who Decides Which Emojis You Get on Your Smartphone?
The Unicode Consortium does a lot of good for the world. It’s thanks to the efforts of this mostly volunteer organization that smartphone users can type in Chinese and rest assured that it’ll be readable on any other device. For speakers of obscure languages like Fulani, the consortium’s work literally pulls a whole culture across […]
Microsoft’s Wearable Device Band Gets Feature Upgrades
Microsoft’s compelling wearable smart device, Band, recently got an upgrade with new features that make the device more comparable with the basic functionality of more well-known smartwatch devices like the Apple Watch. The biggest change has been the addition of music control and activity reminders, positioning the wearable as a worthwhile consideration for Bluetooth app […]
Microsoft Re-Enters Smartwatch App Market with Band
Microsoft unveiled an update to the Microsoft Band this week, including some new features that make it an intriguing alternative to the more expensive Apple Watch. The device is surprisingly feature-heavy at the $249 price point, giving smartwatch developers at the New York launch event plenty to talk about. Microsoft arguably “almost” created the smartwatch […]
Apple iPad and iPhone Are Bankrupting Finland
With his country currently experiencing some economic turbulence, Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb said that Apple was partially to blame for Finland’s problems. In an interview with CNBC, Stubb said that several traditionally strong Finnish industries were in decline, and pointed to Apple as a major reason why. Finland was once one of the world’s […]
Demand for Smartphones and Mobile Data Set to Explode by 2019
According to a recent report released by Ericsson ConsumerLab, demand for smartphones and mobile data is poised for extremely rapid growth in the next few years. Conceptually speaking, this is no surprise to industry insiders, but even so, the actual projects have raised a lot of eyebrows. Handset sales are expected to increase by 300 […]
Apple Still Leading The App Charge
As an iPhone app developer in Los Angeles we were interested to see the report released today showing Apple’s App Store and Goole Play continuing to set the pace for the overall sales performance while BlackBerry and Microsoft’s Windows Phone remain distant challengers. App sales climbed by 11% in Q1 2013 worldwide with combined downloads from the stores totally more than $13.4 […]
IOS Still More Popular With Business Users Than Android
According to a report by Citrix the IOS platform continues to be the preferred mobile platform in the business world. Studying business customers who uses it’s cloud-based management software Citrix found that iOS was No. 1 with 58 percent adoption in the 2012 fourth quarter. Android took second place with a 35% share followed by […]
Microsoft Lures Mac Developers With Quickstart Kit
As mobile app developers we become aware this morning that Microsoft is tempting Mac developers to start working on Windows with it’s Windows QuickStart Kit which includes a copy of Windows 8 Pro and Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac on a USB storage device. Microsoft’s group program manager for Internet Explorer Sandeep Singhal, states in today’s announcement “the most common way you […]
Android up 13%, iOS down 7%, BlackBerry down 81%, Windows Phone up 52%
The mobile OS market share figures are in for Kantar Worldpanel’s last quarter, and the numbers are very interesting indeed. Kantar Worldpanel is the largest consumer research mobile phone panel in the world which conducts more than 240,000 interviews per year in the U.S to assertion what people are using. The real shocks are not the Android and iOS numbers which […]