Apple iPhone Finally Coming to T-Mobile

T-Mobile is finally picking up the iPhone. Carrier competing on low-price plans. Smartphone phone sales correlate with mobile app development industry growth.

Facebook Topping On Ice Cream Sandwich

Yesterday Facebook announced a family of Android-based smartphone apps which is to be called Facebook Home. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced “We’re going to talk about how you can transform your Android phone into a great social phone” Facebook Home will be available on April 12 on certain phones which run the Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean versions of the Android […]

SFO Serves Cease-And-Desist Ride Sharing Companies

InstantCab, a San Francisco iPhone app development firm which uses cab drivers and vetted individuals to provide taxi services announced that it had received a partial cease-and-desist letter from SFO. It also appears that other new transportation startups have also received the same notice last month. It was reported that SideCar confirmed that it received a cease-and-desist letter in […]

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 […]

Its Official – Phablets Are Lame

  The mobile app analytics company Flurry, released an article breaking down the state of the mobile app development market. According to the report, mid-sized smartphones like the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy are dominating the developer market while Phablet devices are lagging far behind. Phablets are mobile devices that are smaller than a tablet and […]