Mobile App Marketplace Seeing Explosive Growth
Growth Forecasts for Global Mobile App Marketplace The mobile apps business worldwide is a success story that grwoing faster than a brush fire. According to Gartner Research, app developers earned an impressive $26 billion in 2013. Revenues were spurred by paid download sales and in-app purchases. 102 billion apps were downloads in 2013 compared to […]
iPhone and Android Devices Becoming Real-life Remote Controls
The continued development of cloud computing has laid the groundwork for a near-future reality in which a single device — your smartphone — will begin to act like a kind of remote control device for your whole life. Because smartphones and tablet computers now rely on “the cloud” to boost their data processing potential, a […]
This Week in Mobile – Headline from Across the Tech World
Samsung Loses Patent Judgement in their Own Backyard Apple and Samsung are duking it out in courtrooms across the globe. In the latest battle in the mobile patent wars, Samsung was dealt a hefty blow in their own backyard. What makes this particular case unique was that it played out Samsung’s home country of South […]
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 […]
New iPhone Models Expected to be Launched at Apple’s Special Event
The past year has been tough on Apple’s bottom line and public prestige. Since Steve Jobs’ death the company’s stock price has slumped dramatically, losing $280 billion in value. Fierce competitors like Samsung continue to out-innovate the tech titan and gobble up market share. Apple has lost their competitive advantage in several key categories. Android’s […]
Amazon Launches Developer Friendly SNS Push Messaging Service
Push messaging is a must have for any app that depends upon user engagement for their success. Unfortunately, from a technical standpoint push messaging systems are a pain for mobile developers to integrate, maintain and update. Deploying a cross-platform push messaging solution is an issue that has remained a complex and time-consuming for the Android […]
Apple Dominance Slipping as Competitors Out-Innovate
Apple Inc. can’t seem to catch a break these days as the tech giant’s market share gets eroded a bit more every day. Could Apple be following the same downward trajectory as deposed heavyweights like Microsoft and Blackberry? A study released by research firm Strategy Analytics said, “Global smartphone shipments grew 47 percent to hit […]
Android Fragmentation Only Getting Worse
In our brave new mobile centric world, one year equals an entire life-cycle of technological innovation. Google knows this fact all too well, yet the search giant hasn’t figured out how to solve the mounting fragmentation problems for their Android mobile operating system. A full 2 years after launching Android version 2.3, more than […]
Google Maps App for iOS and Android Get Monster Upgrade
Google is proving once again why they are arguably the most innovative company on the planet. With the recent release of Google Maps 2.0 for iOS and Android, users can now leverage a slew of new valuable features. App users can now view live traffic conditions on the road and get alerts about traffic accidents. […]
Developers Pumping Out Google Glass Apps
A slew of new Google Glass apps are being developed by talented dev teams worldwide as a mobile developers continue to eagerly jump into the Google Glass arena. Dev teams are excitedly pushing forward with the platform even though the current market is only comprised of a only 8,000 lucky developers to win access to […]