There's no better way to learn than by making mistakes. Just ask Kevin Montrose from Stack Exchange. Montrose is going a post-mortem on the first generation Stack Exchange API, with coverage of its history and mistakes made in its design.The first post is about the history of the API and...
Mobile application analytics company Localytics has spent time researching how users interact with their iPads and found that users spend the most time with news apps while games were the most frequented apps. Localytics measures usage sessions of apps that have it installed and the data in the study comes...
Web-based note-taking service Evernote rolled out a substantial update to its iOS app today, offering several new features to users and a redesigned interface for its iPad app. The upgrade includes rich text editing within notes, mobile access to shared notebooks, the ability to search within individual notes and, for...
Stop me if you've heard this one: A service that pulls in your feeds from around the Web for you to read. A service that provides a storefront for discovering and subscribing to Web publications. A service that lets you follow updates from your favorite Web personalities. A service that...
A new service called MagAppZine was the subject of an interview by Jenn Webb on O'Reilly Radar today and is aimed to substantially lower the barriers to entry required for publishing content into the iTunes app store. It's a white label, DIY app-publishing platform that is limited to PDF uploads,...
Private group messaging apps are hot. The Monday after Skype acquired year-old startup GroupMe for a reported $85 million, a team of innovators who lead the ultimately unsuccessful but very important charge to popularize RSS feeds has regrouped to build and launch a new group messaging app called Glassboard. Glassboard...
Mobile payment provider Square, also known as Jack Dorsey's other company, has just updated its universal iOS app to version 2.1, adding some small but key improvements.The app, which allows anyone with an iOS or Android device to process credit card payments, has accelerated transactions, both by enhancing performance and...
There are some undercurrents swiftly moving through developments circles that will soon become the topic everybody will be discussing. Among those topics, one significantly stands out in the mobile realm - the coming wave of HTML5 Web-based apps. The vanguard is being led by mobile games developers but the rest...
Editor's note: This is an op-ed.I woke up on Sunday and started fussing about the apartment. Made a cup of tea, cleaned the kitchen, turned on the Roku and sat down on my couch with my iPad to check the news. That is when I saw that HP had turned...
Skype, the Internet telephony company that is itself currently being acquired by Microsoft, has announced that it will itself acquire GroupMe, a group messaging startup.Created at a hackathon last year, GroupMe is one of a handful of apps that enable people to have multi-person chats via their mobile devices. Group...
Regardless of the size of the regulatory hurdle that the Google takeover bid for Motorola Mobility may be for the United States, the hurdle for Europe will be a formidable one. This despite the fact that both are American companies; they do business on a global scale, with global telecommunications...
A study from earlier this summer by wireless vendor Meraki reveals some starting information based on the data collected across their customers' networks. Apple's iPad users are piggy when it comes to their data consumption, averaging close to 200 MB monthly, compared to an average smartphone user of about 40...
One day after Hewlett-Packard announced that it will be suspending the production of webOS-based phones and tablets, news has surfaced that members the webOS team itself had misgivings about the TouchPad hardware on which it was running. The promising mobile operating system is said to have run twice as fast...
Google characterized it as "Supercharging Android." Whether you subscribe to that characterization of Google's takeover bid for Motorola Mobility may depend upon which end of the Android ecosystem you're standing on. One of the factors that made Android such a strong challenger to Apple's iOS is its open and diverse...
The third iteration of Apple's hot-selling tablet computer will not be on the market until 2012, the Wall Street Journal has confirmed. Rumors of a 2011 release for the device were already in the process of being quashed by various sources when the WSJ's Lorraine Luk reported that the company...
The rate at which data, or content, is being produced for the Web and being generated for businesses has outpaced the rate at which conventional databases are evolving to better manage it all. It's a fact of life that we perceive on a gradual basis every day, but that we...
In the not-too-distant future, iPhone users may be navigating around using an augmented reality interface that overlays all kinds of data relevant to their immediate location, as well as turn-by-turn traveling directions from one location to another. Instead of navigating as a little blue dot along a purple line on...
The "mix" between desktop and laptop PCs flipped toward the laptop side of the equation for most of the world's PC manufacturers five years ago. The reason, it was surmised at the time, is that the nature of the workforce is changing: that "the office," as we have come to...
Bing just released a helpful app called We're In for Windows Phone, which helps organize get-togethers by creating an event at a location that contacts can join. You create a title, location and timeframe and send an invitation to people in your contact list. Users without Windows Phones can join...
Hewlett-Packard released its quarterly earning statement today and tucked in the middle of the press release was a little bombshell: "HP reported that it plans to announce that it will discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones. HP will continue to explore options to optimize the...
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