Posts Tagged ‘mobile applications’

This week RIM have been promoting their BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps which allows developers to make a few tweaks, repackage their Android apps online then upload them to BlackBerry App World. This should make porting between Android and BlackBerry simple and removes some of the challenges of porting between operating systems to ensure that [...]

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So far this year Facebook has bought six companies ranging from the mobile app developer, Snaptu, to the mobile advertising firm, Rel8tion. One acquisition, Beluga, whose business centred on group messaging, was eventually integrated into the Facebook Messenger app. The most recent acquisition – announced this week – is the purchase of small geosocial networking [...]

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Adobe announced this week that it would no longer be developing a Flash plugin for mobile browsers, prompting comments that Steve Jobs has had the last laugh. After all, the iPhone does not support Adobe Flash and Jobs was highly critical of its reliability, security and performance. Jobs’ essay, ‘Thoughts on Flash’ is well worth [...]

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The smartphone revolution has brought unprecedented levels of traffic to mobile social media service providers but the main problem facing these providers is this – how do I convert this traffic into revenue? Many of these companies are already missing a trick by releasing mobile services with little or no advertising other than the in-stream [...]

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With the increase in non-voice revenues failing to offset the decline in voice revenues, US Wireless carriers are enviously eyeing the success of Apple’s and Google’s app stores. While they have undoubtedly benefitted from the smartphone/app revolution, carriers such as AT&T Mobility, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless, are taking steps to be more than just a conduit in the future.

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