Mobile App
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Asian mobile apps need better usability
News Developers in region hoping to bring apps to global audience should work on developing cleaner and more intuitive user interfaces, says Nokia exec.
Tags: Mobile applications, Software engineering/development, Communications, Nokia Corp., Mobile App, Phone, App, advertisement, revenue, mobile
Hype over mobile app downloads to slow
News Global market growth will hit 153 percent between 2008 and 2011 but drop to 33 percent before 2014, with Asia accounting for 19 percent, new study finds.
Tags: Development/design, Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile commerce, Apple Inc., Mobile App, Ovum, bank, mobile, Asia, Asia-Pacific
Developers are Nokia's path to emerging markets
News Mobile maker is placing renewed focus on app creators, in hope that developer-centric strategy will drive its push into Asia's emerging markets, say top execs.
Tags: Mobile applications, Symbian, Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc., Phone, cell phone, mobile, Mobile applications, Asia, India
Developers look past Apple's jammed iPhone App Store
News Software programmers are designing apps for Google-backed Android operating system, fired by frustration with Apple's rejections and delays.
Tags: Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Business applications, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Ideaworks, Apple App Store, Iconfactory, Operating System, App
Microsoft opens app store to more phones
News Although Microsoft has just made its mobile marketplace available for Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1, Microsoft will have to do more if it wants to reach Apple's 100,000 apps--and counting.
Tags: Mobile applications, Windows Mobile, Apple Inc., Boulder, Phone, Operating System, App, Microsoft Corp., mobile, Mobile applications
Yahoo stopping mobile 'Go' app in 2010
News Yahoo to pull the plug on a mobile app it cannibalized with the introduction of Yahoo Mobile, its optimized site and mobile app.
Tags: Yahoo! Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Phone, cell phone, mobile, Web Browser, product marketing, Apple iPhone, strategy, Web
Windows Mobile gets own app marketplace
News update Windows Mobile will get an app store to be launched Wednesday, allowing users to download and purchase mobile apps over-the-air, Microsoft reveals.
Tags: Mobile applications, Windows Mobile, Software engineering/development, .NET, Google Inc., App, Microsoft Corp., software, mobile, Mobile applications
Apps to flourish on mobile, games
News Developers should bet on Android, games, navigation and music, to reap returns, suggest industry watchers, who say business apps can also prove viable.
Tags: Mobile applications, Business applications, Mobile platforms, Nokia Corp., Ovum, Phone, Operating System, App, mobile, Business applications
Smartphone users, keep complaining
News Want great software for your mobile phone? Keep up the complaints. That was the message at a session aimed at developers at the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Tags: Smart phones, Stephen King, RIM BlackBerry, software, mobile, Smart Phone, mobile software, Developer, Customer Satisfaction, Smartphone
RIM launches BlackBerry developer blog
News Blog is intended to get developers more engaged with the BlackBerry at a time of increased competition between smartphone platforms.
Tags: Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Plug-in, Developer, Microsoft Windows Mobile, blog, advisor
GetJar: The unknown app store leader
News Everyone knows that Apple has the largest mobile application store in the world, but who is second? A small company called GetJar.
Tags: Mobile applications, Personal applications, Business applications, Facebook, Apple iPhone, Phone, Personal applications, Mobile applications, GetJar, Web Site
Funding boost for Malaysia's mobile developers
News Country's mobile app makers can receive funds and related support from new initiative between two government agencies and Nokia.
Tags: Applications and tools, Symbian, Training, Asia-Pacific, digital content, Developer, Kuala Lumpur, collaboration, Symbian, Lee Min Keong
Asia mobile regulators lag behind West
News Region's regulators fall behind in terms of regulating and pushing mobile entertainment, but are expected to leapfrog Western counterparts.
Tags: Development/design, Network infrastructure, Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile commerce, Regulator, mobile entertainment, Mobile commerce, MEF, entertainment, China
Yahoo intros new iPhone and BlackBerry apps
News Internet company is focusing more on developing specific applications for devices, such as the iPhone, as it shifts its mobile strategy.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile applications, RIM BlackBerry, Web Browser, Apple iPod, Flickr, Apple iPod Touch, mobile application, Apple iPhone, strategy
Mobile app controls won't deter malware
News Application development controls are no "silver bullet" to keeping mobile malware, say industry watchers, but certification--voluntary or otherwise--ought to exist.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Malware, Security, Conference, Cell Phone, San Francisco, mobile application, Mobile platforms
