Microsoft banks on India's developer ecosystem to drive Windows Phone
ZDNet
Summary: Redmond has been focusing its efforts and offering incentives to encourage app development on its mobile OS, which was launched in India several months after the global launch. By Abhishek Baxi | September 7, 2012 -- 09:31 GMT (02:31 PDT). NEW ...
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New Motorola phones first to get Chrome for Android browser
PC Advisor
According to Web analytics company Net Applications, Chrome for Android accounted for just 0.5% of all mobile browsers that went online in August. Apple's Safari 5.1, with a 48.3% share, is the world's most-used mobile browser in Net Applications ...
See all stories on this topic »Sell my phone: Mobile gaming has gone from 'nowhere to everywhere'
Mazuma Mobile
Mobile phone gaming is now a significant part of the games industry, but it is "hard to tell where it's heading," according to video games expert and author, Tristan Donovan. Angry Birds reached one billion downloads in ... Many of the games found on ...
See all stories on this topic »PayPal expands mobile payments app to Microsoft's Windows Phone
Fiercemobilecontent
PayPal is rolling out a mobile payments application optimized for Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone operating system. The app joins PayPal's existing mobile services for Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS and Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android.
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Mobile phone technology to tackle environmental threats
Phys.Org
It is a very vigorous invasive plant, capable of choking water bodies and exacerbating flood risk. Image by Dave Kilbey. A mobile phone app developed at the University of Bristol has been rolled out nationally to help tackle a growing threat to the ...
See all stories on this topic »Minneapolis app developer Mobile On bought by Redmond, Wash., company
Pioneer Press
Mobile On primarily focused on developing mobile apps for Twin Cities businesses, and Nayamode, which has a strong background in the Microsoft Windows platform, bought it because of its expertise in developing apps for the Apple iOS and Google ...
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MagicJack CEO Sees 2013 Profit Rising on Apps: Israel Overnight
Bloomberg
MagicJack VocalTec Ltd. (CALL), the Israeli company whose founders invented the technology used for making phone calls over the Internet, is forecasting higher profits for 2013 as customers use its new mobile phone applications. “Our apps have been ...
See all stories on this topic »PayPal (for iPhone)
PC Magazine
Most mobile payment apps log out the user after a few minutes. That's how Google Wallet (for select Android phones only) works, for example. After a specified period of time, you have to re-enter your PIN no matter what. In PayPal for iPhone, though ...
See all stories on this topic »Does SEO for mobile sites differ from desktop sites?
Retail Week
Justin Blackhurst, managing director at search engine optimisation company SEONext, says: “We're not just talking about how your website looks on a mobile screen, but also how navigable and user-friendly it is. “It needs to load quickly, be touch ...
See all stories on this topic »Samsung challenge: Sold the phone, how to keep the customer
VC Circle
Samsung Electronics has built global leadership in mobile phones, but in a fickle industry looks more vulnerable than its nemesis Apple Inc without an 'ecosystem' – software, services, content and customer support – to keep its users loyal. “They need ...
See all stories on this topic »The ultimate Android tethering guide
PC World India
This means that Verizon's Android users on usage-based plans can avoid the $20 tethering fee by using a third-party app instead of their phone's built-in tethering option (called Mobile Broadband Connect). This doesn't mean ... Unlike Verizon, AT&T ...
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Competent iphone programmers for your business mobile applications
Melodika.net (press release)
The market for mobile applications has increased by manifold. There is tremendous scope formobile developers. With the introduction of smart phones the definition of mobile phones has altered. Nowadays mobile phone is just not a device for some basic ...
See all stories on this topic »Google Aurora Attackers Still On Loose, Symantec Says
InformationWeek
Mobile employees' data and apps need protecting. Here are 10 ways to get the job done. Also in the new, all-digital 10 Steps To E-Commerce Security special issue of Dark Reading: Mobile technology is forcing businesses to rethink the fundamentals of ...
See all stories on this topic »The never-ending stream of application updates
PhoneDog (blog)
Unlike my BlackBerry days, I now rely on a fairly significant number of applications to get by withmobile devices. I currently have 151 total applications (counting pre-installed) in my iPad, ... If I switch phones for a day or two, app updates will ...
See all stories on this topic »Hands-on with the Kobo Arc (Video)
MobileSyrup.com
By Ian Hardy on September 6, 2012 at 7:01pm in Mobile News. When Kobo first launched their ...The Vox wasn't certified by Google and therefore couldn't carry apps like Gmail, and didn't obtain access to Google Play until recently. Kobo has returned to ...
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Safaricom to launch its own Apps Store
The Star
The apps-store, which is a virtual supermarket for mobile solutions accessible by all Safaricom users, will give local developers the much needed market and revenue streams. This will compete with other apps stores like Nokia's Ovi Store, Samsung Apps ...
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How to sync and edit plain text files from anywhere, mobile or web
ITworld.com
You can usually preview them in the web version of Dropbox or Google Drive, but to actually edit them, you'll need to download them, edit them in a preferred app, then sync them back. If you're ...Unless, that is, you know about these perfect text ...
See all stories on this topic »Flashing the EAGLESBLOOD JELLYBEAN 4.1.1 ROM for the Galaxy Nexus I9250
Android Authority
Confirm the action on the next screen to flash the ROM to your mobile phone. In the same manner as in step 6, flash the EaglesBlood Android 4.1 Jelly Bean GApps (Google Apps) package to yourmobile phone. Perform a full wipe by doing the following: ...
See all stories on this topic »Amazon Challenges Apple With Updated Line of Kindles
Bloomberg
New Kindles On the Way, Is an Amazon Phone Next? Amazon.com Inc. ... The Seattle-based Web retailer introduced devices yesterday ranging in price from a $69 ad-supported ebook to the $599 top- of-the-line Kindle Fire HD, backed by 22 million movies ...
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Developing Minds Want to Know: Q&A with Al Connelly of Bill James Baseball IQ
Appolicious
I probably have 100 apps on my phone and it's one of the three to four that I use daily. Plus I dig the irony that the mobile device is killing the print industry, but this app puts your content back into a visual format that resembles a magazine or ...
See all stories on this topic »Amazon joins gadget makers jockeying for edge
The Associated Press
Investors were disappointed, and Nokia's stock fell 16 percent on Wednesday. Samsung, which surpassed Nokia as the world's largest maker of mobile phones in 2011 and overtook Apple in smartphones this year, showed off a Windows 8 phone last week.
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ZDNet
Summary: Redmond has been focusing its efforts and offering incentives to encourage app development on its mobile OS, which was launched in India several months after the global launch. By Abhishek Baxi | September 7, 2012 -- 09:31 GMT (02:31 PDT). NEW ...
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| Android gaining ground on paid apps Mobile Entertainment Meanwhile, the number of those with no premium apps at all is now more balanced: six per cent of iPhone users (an increase of three per cent) and seven per cent of Android users (a drop of five per cent) don't have any paid-for apps on their phones ... See all stories on this topic » |  Mobile Entertainment |
| Verizon to Preload Amazon Apps on Android Smartphones, Hints at Google ... Gotta Be Mobile This may suggest or imply that Verizon intends on selling the WiFi Nexus 7 in its stores, or that it is working with Google and Asus to launch a Nexus 7 with embedded 3G or 4G wireless mobile broadband connectivity. Recently, there's been rumors that... See all stories on this topic » |  Gotta Be Mobile |
PC Advisor
According to Web analytics company Net Applications, Chrome for Android accounted for just 0.5% of all mobile browsers that went online in August. Apple's Safari 5.1, with a 48.3% share, is the world's most-used mobile browser in Net Applications ...
See all stories on this topic »Sell my phone: Mobile gaming has gone from 'nowhere to everywhere'
Mazuma Mobile
Mobile phone gaming is now a significant part of the games industry, but it is "hard to tell where it's heading," according to video games expert and author, Tristan Donovan. Angry Birds reached one billion downloads in ... Many of the games found on ...
See all stories on this topic »PayPal expands mobile payments app to Microsoft's Windows Phone
Fiercemobilecontent
PayPal is rolling out a mobile payments application optimized for Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone operating system. The app joins PayPal's existing mobile services for Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS and Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android.
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| Security firms see rise in smartphone cyber-attacks AFP SAN FRANCISCO — Cyber-crooks are increasingly taking aim at smartphones, following their prey as lifestyles migrate to Internet-linked mobile devices, according to new reports by online security firms. Symantec's annual Norton Cybercrime Report ... See all stories on this topic » |  AFP |
Phys.Org
It is a very vigorous invasive plant, capable of choking water bodies and exacerbating flood risk. Image by Dave Kilbey. A mobile phone app developed at the University of Bristol has been rolled out nationally to help tackle a growing threat to the ...
See all stories on this topic »Minneapolis app developer Mobile On bought by Redmond, Wash., company
Pioneer Press
Mobile On primarily focused on developing mobile apps for Twin Cities businesses, and Nayamode, which has a strong background in the Microsoft Windows platform, bought it because of its expertise in developing apps for the Apple iOS and Google ...
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| Xperia Ray, Arc, And Neo Updates Blocked By O2 Mobile & Apps "Unfortunately with Xperia ray, arc and neo [sic] our testing found that the software affected the phone's speed and performance. Because the software affects thephone's performance in this way and because you can't revert back to an earlier version ... See all stories on this topic » |  Mobile & Apps |
| Apple's Message to the World: Innovate, Don't Imitate Business 2 Community It's clear that Google has implemented many of its own mobile OS innovations, but it is also clear to the court that it has been doing a good job of imitating Apple's features and functionality. If you look beyond Google to the entire smart phone and ... See all stories on this topic » |  Business 2 Community |
| Mobile phones and social media in the global south Jakarta Post The two upstream websites that were ranked before Facebook were search engines and google.com. It is important to note though that the adoption of new technologies may not necessarily bridge the divide that exists within ... Community and industry ... See all stories on this topic » |  Jakarta Post |
| Facebook's Instagram purchase final San Francisco Chronicle Oakland's Pandora Media "has emerged as one of the strongest U.S. mobile display ad sellers" and should come in second to Google with $226.4 million in revenues this year and $349.4 million next year, eMarketer said. LinkedIn mobility: LinkedIn is ... See all stories on this topic » |  San Francisco Chronicle |
Bloomberg
MagicJack VocalTec Ltd. (CALL), the Israeli company whose founders invented the technology used for making phone calls over the Internet, is forecasting higher profits for 2013 as customers use its new mobile phone applications. “Our apps have been ...
See all stories on this topic »PayPal (for iPhone)
PC Magazine
Most mobile payment apps log out the user after a few minutes. That's how Google Wallet (for select Android phones only) works, for example. After a specified period of time, you have to re-enter your PIN no matter what. In PayPal for iPhone, though ...
See all stories on this topic »Does SEO for mobile sites differ from desktop sites?
Retail Week
Justin Blackhurst, managing director at search engine optimisation company SEONext, says: “We're not just talking about how your website looks on a mobile screen, but also how navigable and user-friendly it is. “It needs to load quickly, be touch ...
See all stories on this topic »Samsung challenge: Sold the phone, how to keep the customer
VC Circle
Samsung Electronics has built global leadership in mobile phones, but in a fickle industry looks more vulnerable than its nemesis Apple Inc without an 'ecosystem' – software, services, content and customer support – to keep its users loyal. “They need ...
See all stories on this topic »The ultimate Android tethering guide
PC World India
This means that Verizon's Android users on usage-based plans can avoid the $20 tethering fee by using a third-party app instead of their phone's built-in tethering option (called Mobile Broadband Connect). This doesn't mean ... Unlike Verizon, AT&T ...
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| Top 5 mobile and tablet apps PCR-online.biz Top 5 mobile and tablet apps. This week WhatsApp continues to top the paid iPhone charts, whilst N.O.V.A 3 leads the way on Google Play's paid app chart. IPHONE. PAID. 1. WhatsApp Messenger. 2. Hardest Game Ever. 3. Color Splash. 4. The Curse. 5. VS. See all stories on this topic » |  PCR-online.biz |
| Two iOS, Android Apps Let You Digitally Sign Documents CIO (blog) With the right mobile app, adding your digital signature to a contract or other document can be relatively simple. CIO.com blogger James A. Martin put two digital-signature apps to the test, one for iOS and another for Android, and found one to be ... See all stories on this topic » |  CIO (blog) |
| Another international accolade for AsiaOne AsiaOne SINGAPORE - The AsiaOne iPhone app has been named one of the most "highly commended" digital news destinations (mobile or app) at the 2012 Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association (PANPA) Awards. This is the second time ... Since its launch in ... See all stories on this topic » |  AsiaOne |
Melodika.net (press release)
The market for mobile applications has increased by manifold. There is tremendous scope formobile developers. With the introduction of smart phones the definition of mobile phones has altered. Nowadays mobile phone is just not a device for some basic ...
See all stories on this topic »Google Aurora Attackers Still On Loose, Symantec Says
InformationWeek
Mobile employees' data and apps need protecting. Here are 10 ways to get the job done. Also in the new, all-digital 10 Steps To E-Commerce Security special issue of Dark Reading: Mobile technology is forcing businesses to rethink the fundamentals of ...
See all stories on this topic »The never-ending stream of application updates
PhoneDog (blog)
Unlike my BlackBerry days, I now rely on a fairly significant number of applications to get by withmobile devices. I currently have 151 total applications (counting pre-installed) in my iPad, ... If I switch phones for a day or two, app updates will ...
See all stories on this topic »Hands-on with the Kobo Arc (Video)
MobileSyrup.com
By Ian Hardy on September 6, 2012 at 7:01pm in Mobile News. When Kobo first launched their ...The Vox wasn't certified by Google and therefore couldn't carry apps like Gmail, and didn't obtain access to Google Play until recently. Kobo has returned to ...
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| Apple Nabs 33% of US Smartphone Market, Google Android 52% MarketingProfs.com (subscription) Texting remained the most popular mobile content activity, with 75.6% of USmobile subscribers sending a text message to another phone as of July. Despite a small slip, Samsung maintained its lead in the mobile OEM market with 25.6% of US mobile ... See all stories on this topic » |  MarketingProfs.com (subscription) |
The Star
The apps-store, which is a virtual supermarket for mobile solutions accessible by all Safaricom users, will give local developers the much needed market and revenue streams. This will compete with other apps stores like Nokia's Ovi Store, Samsung Apps ...
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| LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Just Revealed A Lot Of Amazing Facts About ... Business Insider From Apple to Amazon, from tablets to mobile payments, hear from innovative executives at Google, Washington Post, News Corp, LinkedIn, Pepsi, and more. Reserve your ... Last year 10% of unique visitors came to the site from its mobile apps. This year ... See all stories on this topic » |  Business Insider |
ITworld.com
You can usually preview them in the web version of Dropbox or Google Drive, but to actually edit them, you'll need to download them, edit them in a preferred app, then sync them back. If you're ...Unless, that is, you know about these perfect text ...
See all stories on this topic »Flashing the EAGLESBLOOD JELLYBEAN 4.1.1 ROM for the Galaxy Nexus I9250
Android Authority
Confirm the action on the next screen to flash the ROM to your mobile phone. In the same manner as in step 6, flash the EaglesBlood Android 4.1 Jelly Bean GApps (Google Apps) package to yourmobile phone. Perform a full wipe by doing the following: ...
See all stories on this topic »Amazon Challenges Apple With Updated Line of Kindles
Bloomberg
New Kindles On the Way, Is an Amazon Phone Next? Amazon.com Inc. ... The Seattle-based Web retailer introduced devices yesterday ranging in price from a $69 ad-supported ebook to the $599 top- of-the-line Kindle Fire HD, backed by 22 million movies ...
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| Norton Report: Aussies Incur $1.6B in Losses over Mobile Devices Hacking International Business Times AU Citing reports by Google, the U.S.-based publication said about eight out of 10 Australians were believed to rely mostly on mobile devices to log on the web - their activities ranging from checking emails, getting updates from Facebook or Twitter and... See all stories on this topic » |  International Business Times AU |
Appolicious
I probably have 100 apps on my phone and it's one of the three to four that I use daily. Plus I dig the irony that the mobile device is killing the print industry, but this app puts your content back into a visual format that resembles a magazine or ...
See all stories on this topic »Amazon joins gadget makers jockeying for edge
The Associated Press
Investors were disappointed, and Nokia's stock fell 16 percent on Wednesday. Samsung, which surpassed Nokia as the world's largest maker of mobile phones in 2011 and overtook Apple in smartphones this year, showed off a Windows 8 phone last week.
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