Why Are Free Games More Popular On iPhones Than On Android Devices?
Some research out from Xyologic today on app store download trends in 2011 indicates that while games have remained a popular category acros… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: More Than One Reason Why RIM's BlackBerry 10 Phones Are Late?
What’s the real reason behind the delay of the BlackBerry 10 handsets, which has Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) in a lot of trouble heading… Read more at paidContent »
For Users Outside The U.S., Facebook Is Getting A Little More Private
Facebook is no stranger to accusations about how it treats users’ privacy — something that has come under increased public scrutiny in the… Read more at paidContent »
Nuance, Vlingo Stop Idle Chitchat And Team Up To Challenge Apple's Siri
Nuance has acquired Vlingo in a combination of two of the most prominent independent speech companies left, as mobile companies continue to… Read more at paidContent »
Three Makes A Trend: Bugs Cropping Up In Galaxy Nexus
Maybe now it makes a little more sense why the Galaxy Nexus took so much longer to arrive in the U.S. then originally anticipated: a spate o… Read more at paidContent »
AOL Ponies Up For Appssavvy's $7.1 Million Round As Social Ads Make Friends
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One of the consequences of the growth of social media has been the rise of that category of digital, interactive advertising referred to as… Read more at paidContent »
Kayak: Lessons learned as it relaunches on the iPad
On Tuesday Kayak plans to launch a new app for iOS. It’s throwing out its old Kayak HD app and making a universal app for iOS. We talk to its head of mobile about the lessons learned since the launch on the original iPad. Read more »
BBC iPlayer App's iPhone Update Adds 500K New Users In A Week
The BBC iPlayer iOS app has been downloaded 1.1m times in the week since it was updated to run on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch as well as i… Read more at paidContent »
Epicurious, Random House Partner To Sell Digital Cookbooks
Condé Nast cooking site Epicurious is selling Random House digital cookbooks that users can import into their “digital recipe boxes.” Howev… Read more at paidContent »
BuzzFeed Releases Kindle Fire-Optimized App
Social content site BuzzFeed is the latest company to release a version of its app especially for the Kindle Fire. Read more at paidContent »
Product Strategists Should See NFC As Much More Than Contactless Payments
A year ago, Forrester stated that 2011 would–finally–be the year that Near Field Communications (NFC) began to matter. We predicted that d… Read more at paidContent »
Take A Seat, Andy: Report Says Microsoft's Lees 'Benched' For WP7 Efforts
So who exactly is running the show when it comes to Microsoft’s mobile efforts? A few more details emerged Wednesday about the reassignment… Read more at paidContent »
Flipboard's Phone Flips Beating iPad 2:1
Flipboard’s iPhone application has clocked up a million downloads in the week since it went live, the company tells paidContent. Read more at paidContent »
Google Hoping To Improve Mobile Recommendations With Alfred And Majel
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is making a few moves to shore up an area that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has aggressively attacked this year: voice-driven mobi… Read more at paidContent »
Apps vs. the web: Are they enemies or allies?
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Forrester CEO George Colony reignited a minor firestorm recently by saying “the web is dead” and the app ecosystem is replacing it. Others, however, argue that the open web has benefits that apps do not have, and that losing these features would have serious consequences. Read more »
Flipboard adds 1M subscribers: Good lesson for iPad apps
For Flipboard, making the move to the smaller screen of the iPhone seems to have been a risk well worth taking; the personalized news delivery service has already added 1 million new users since the iPhone app launched. It’s a good lesson for iOS periodical publishers. Read more »
Crayola Moves From Magic Markers To E-Books
Seeing “digital devices as another canvas for kids to share their originality and creative ideas,” Crayola is partnering with interactive st… Read more at paidContent »
Microsoft And Nokia Pay Perform For A Mobile Soccer App
Illustrating how rival platforms are keen to attract quality apps from iOS to their stores, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) are… Read more at paidContent »
Axel Springer Becomes Industry's Latest Newsstand And Flipboard Clone
photo: Axel Springer
The latest Flipboard-esque print-like tablet aggregator comes from the publisher of the most read newspaper in the west. Read more at paidContent »
Pontiflex/Harris Survey: Incentive And Video Ads Turn Off Mobile Users
Mobile ads today make up less than one percent of all money spent on media advertising, and a poll just out from Harris Interactive, commiss… Read more at paidContent »
Microsoft's Windows Phone Head Lees Taking On New Role Ahead Of Huge Year
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is shaking up the leadership of its Windows Phone unit heading into a huge year for its revamped mobile strategy. And… Read more at paidContent »
Is There A Business Model To Support Some Of The Great New Curation Tools?
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I love talking about the things I enjoy using. The emerging ecosystem in which a bunch of smart people curate long form journalism is defini… Read more at paidContent »
Sunday's Last Call For HP's TouchPad Makes WebOS Hiatus Official
Sunday was probably the last chance to grab a WebOS tablet for quite some time, and whatever limited supply HP (NYSE: HPQ) made available of… Read more at paidContent »
Nielsen: Google's Own Apps Play Second Fiddle To Facebook In Popularity
Nielsen is getting ready later this week to release is quarterly State of the Media report, which this time around will focus on mobile medi… Read more at paidContent »
Apple's Leagues Ahead In App Downloads: 18 Billion To Android's 10 Billion
A timely news announcement from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) one week after Google’s own Android apps milestone: Apple says that 500,000 apps have now… Read more at paidContent »
Apple’s Mac App Store reaches 100M downloads
The Mac App Store is not quite a year old, and it just passed the 100 million download mark, according to Apple. Originally launched in January, the Mac App Store is now the “largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world,” Apple says. Read more »
