This post is an excerpt from Rana Sobhany's new book, Mobilize: Strategies for Success from the Frontlines of the App Revolution. Mobilize walks developers through the positioning, marketing and outreach needed to create successful apps. In her opening chapter, Sobhany follows the history of the app store phenomenon from its...
Upstage is a new mobile application for developers and designers which allows you to easily share iOS app mockups with other team members and external clients. The app has was originally developed as an internal collaboration tool by the folks over at Boxcar, the push notification provider for iPhone, iPad...
Upstage is a new mobile application for developers and designers which allows you to easily share iOS app mockups with other team members and external clients. The app has was originally developed as an internal collaboration tool by the folks over at Boxcar, the push notification provider for iPhone, iPad...
This morning a startup in Washington, D.C. launched its website. What's the news? The website is a .gov, not a .com, and the startup is a government agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 established the agency last year. Republican lawmakers...
FOSDEM Kicks off this weekend in Brussels, Belguim 5-6 February. The Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM meetings...
Some early reviews are in for the Verizon iPhone 4, which is available for pre-sale today. Many of these tout the ability to actually make a phone call - something AT&T customers have famously struggled with. But for those who plan to take advantage of the iPhone for its data...
Yesterday, Google launched its highly anticipated Android Market refresh, an update which now offers consumers the ability to browse and search for mobile applications from their desktop computer and then download those apps to their phone or tablet wirelessly. The experience is a vast improvement over the previous version of...
Facebook recently decided to put a hold on its plans to share users' phone numbers and addresses with third parties, in response to the controversy created by the move. At the time, Facebook said it would disable the new feature while the company made changes that would ensure Facebook users...
Telecommunications company Vodafone says that it has been forced to send pro-government messages to its subscribers in Egypt during the country's recent protests.In a short press statement released today, the network said that the Egyptian government had invoked emergency powers to instruct the mobile networks of Mobinil, Etisalat and Vodafone...
Telecommunications company Vodafone says that it has been forced to send pro-government messages to its subscribers in Egypt during the country's recent protests.In a short press statement released today, the network said that the Egyptian government had invoked emergency powers to instruct the mobile networks of Mobinil, Etisalat and Vodafone...
Google officially unveiled Honeycomb - version 3.0 of its Android operating system - earlier today, and there are already tablet-optimized business apps lined up for the brand new OS. Of course, apps designed for previous versions of Android should work just fine in Honeycomb, so current users won't lose their...
The World Bank works with a network of specialists all over the world to gather and curate a large body of economic development data each year. The organization has made a few million dollars from subscription sales of its datasets to universities and other institutional subscribers - but last year...
Being at IBM's Lotusphere event this week has me thinking about a number of companies in the enterprise 2.0 space that have pioneered the use of social technologies. In particular are three companies that we cover often here: Socialtext, Jive Software and MindTouch.Each of these companies competes in some respects...
Being at IBM's Lotusphere event this week has me thinking about a number of companies in the enterprise 2.0 space that have pioneered the use of social technologies. In particular are three companies that we cover often here: Socialtext, Jive Software and MindTouch.Each of these companies competes in some respects...
At its Honeycomb event in Mountain View today, Google announced the availability of the long-awaited Android Market website: market.android.com.The aim of the site is to make finding apps easier, something that has long frustrated Android users. Before today, Android users have had to find and download apps solely via their...
Research in Motion (RIM) has just announced that its mobile application store, BlackBerry App World, has been updated to version 2.1. The most notable new feature in the update is the addition of support for in-app payments. That means developers can now offer apps for free and earn revenue through...
Mozilla today announced the release of the latest Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo. You can get Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta from the Android Market to test on your Google Android deviceContinue reading New Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo Released
Last week, the Google Android team sent out an invite promising an "in-depth look at Honeycomb, Android ecosystem news and hands-on demos," so here we are at the Googleplex in Mountain View and we're ready for these hands-on demos. In the mean time, we'll be live blogging the announcement and...
After much anticipation, Rupert Murdoch's latest media project, The Daily, finally held its launch event today in New York City. Originally scheduled for January 19, the event was delayed due to the announcement that Steve Jobs was taking a medical leave of absence. The participation from the Apple CEO was...
The mobile version of Firefox for Android and Maemo just hit a new milestone: Firefox 4 Beta, an update which delivers speed improvements, better panning and zooming, and faster startup time, says Mozilla. Like previous versions of the browser, it also includes standard Firefox features like support for add-ons, Firefox...
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