Nimbuzz, a mobile VoIP service and social networking services integrator, says that its Symbian app has been downloaded more than a million time from the Ovi Store by Nokia. In other words, Nimbuzz is benefiting handsomely from increased usage of the Ovi Store. Read more »
Foursquare is working with Zagat, HBO and other high-profile media brands to get a leg up on competitors like Gowalla and Yelp. The partnerships will provide valuable exposure and content as Foursquare tries to differentiate itself in the white-hot location-based social recommendation space. Read more »
In the hopes of another platform gold rush, there’s already an “AppFund” for applications for the iPad and other tablets. The AppFund doesn’t have quite the resume of the KPCB-backed and Apple-supported iFund, but it comes at a time when tablets are top of mind. Read more »
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Augmented reality apps (like WorkSnug, a neat app that helps you to find good places to work nearby that I wrote about last year) are becoming more commonplace. GigaOM has published a great set of infographics summarizing the main AR apps and how they work. Read more »
Nokia, which recently launched a new, free version of its Ovi Maps app, may also open it up to outside developers via a more robust API than the one currently available as it looks to extends the app’s capabilities even further. Read more »
A lack of discoverability continues to plague the mobile app space as storefronts become increasingly crowded with a glut of titles. Collaboration between carriers and developers is one way the industry can help users cut through the clutter and find what they’re looking for. Read more »
Gowalla, a location-based social application is about to pass 100,000 users, according to some of my sources. The company is going to hit the milestone sometime this weekend, having just crossed 99,000 users. In comparison, New York-based Foursquare is closing in on 300,000 users. Read more »
Gowalla CEO Josh Williams in this video interview shares his company’s story and accidental foray into the world of mobile location. He talks about competition from Twitter, Foursquare and Yelp. Williams outlines new product information including the forthcoming release of a beta of Gowalla’s Android app. Read more »
Geodelic, a developer of location-based applications, has launched an iPhone application and signed a major deal with Korea Telecom to provide a special Seoul version of its app. The company is riding the geolocation wave. It eventually wants to open its publishing system to consumers. Read more »
Google and Apple have picked off two of the biggest startups in mobile advertising, but as last week’s tie-up between Amobee and RingRing Media indicates, M&A activity in the space this year will largely center on smaller players. And there will be a lot of it. Read more »
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For most of the first decade of the new century, we all waited for the emergence of location-based services. The LBS dream, it seemed, was always being deferred. Fast-forward to today — in 2010 we’ll see that mythical future become an actuality. Read more »
Apple is reportedly set to jump into mobile advertising with the $275 million acquisition of Quattro Wireless. The move follows Google’s pick-up of AdMob two months ago, and further sets the stage for a flurry of consolidation in the space this year. Read more »
Mobile apps that take users directly to e-commerce and other types of sites are a growing threat to traditional search engines, according to BroadPoint. While the growth of mobile apps has been heralded as a healthy trend, is it good for the Googles of the world? Read more »
Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile app analytics company that recently merged with Pinch Media of New York, has teamed up with comScore in a deal that will marry Flurry’s analytics with comScore’s mobile panel data. The combined results, in turn, will be sold to comScore’s clients. Read more »
Mobile app stores are popping up like mushrooms after the rains, making life difficult for app developers. We wanted to know the average cost of a paid application on different platforms. Folks from Mobclix crunched some numbers and came back with some surprising findings. Read more »
Motorola and Verizon are on track to sell a million Droids in the fourth quarter — and with that, Droid has become the most dominant Android phone on the market today, beating out the HTC Dream, which was the best-selling Android smartphone in October and November. Read more »
According to data from oDesk, the number of iPhone-related jobs listed on its marketplace beats the total number of Android jobs, which are slowly inching up. There are 2,071 iPhone developers listed on oDesk vs. 624 Android developers. Read more »
Flurry Media and Pinch Media are merging to form a new app analytics company: Flurry Media. The new firm’s analytics services will run on more than 80 percent of all iPhoneOS and Android handsets. Read more »
As the year winds to a close, GigaOM Pro’s crack team of contributors takes a look back at what went right, what went wrong, and for whom in the world of ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
As the hardware and software components fall into place for 3-D in mobile, content companies need to be ready to take advantage with compelling offerings that fully leverage the advancing technology. Read more »
Cars will become increasingly connected to the web over the next several years, according to iSuppli. While that represents a huge opportunity for mobile players, network operators will need to make sure they can deliver the kind of content consumers are sure to want. Read more »
Apple’s approval policies for App Store offerings have drawn plenty of flak for lacking visibility and being arbitrarily enforced, but they do help protect consumers from overpriced and shoddy apps. Which is something Google will need to keep in mind as its Android Market expands. Read more »
Google is betting the farm on HTML5 technologies, even if it means saying goodbye to two-year-old Google Gears, its technology that gave offline access to web applications. The question is why? Read more »
Despite a growing number of handsets, the app store to go along with Google’s Android OS faces is getting a thumbs down from developers who complain about slow sales and low downloads, a survey says. Android can’t afford to lose developer attention who have other opportunities. Read more »
There are countless mobile sites and apps designed to help users spend their money this holiday season. To help save you time, we’ve rounded up some of the more notable ones. Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_google-android] TripIt, a travel aggregation service that is offered as an application on the iPhone and BlackBerry, is now available as a beta app for Google’s Android platform and can be downloaded from the Android Market. Just like us, our colleagues at jkOnTheRun, WebWorkerDaily and TheAppleBlog […] Read more »
Google continued to expand its mobile analytics offerings with a feature that allows developers to see how consumers are using specific parts of their iPhone and Android apps. Because apps don’t contain HTML pages, developers must determine when the applications should trigger page view requests. The […] Read more »
Mobile apps are hot. Apple users have downloaded 2 billion of them, Microsoft just launched its Windows Marketplace for Mobile and Verizon, which is trying to lure developers to its own app store due to open later this year, in the meantime has announced it will […] Read more »
The enthusiasm in Silicon Valley over the growth of mobile broadband and mobile applications is palpable these days, but there’s one thing missing: an understanding of how the underlying network affects both the physical hardware and the way applications run. What we need is the return […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_google-android] In this new mobile platform world, app developers are the new kingmakers. Not a day goes by when someone doesn’t introduce their own app store, but the question of whether or not they’ll actually be able to profit from their efforts remains. (See our related […] Read more »
Although Safari improves with every version released, it remains difficult for one browser to cater for everyone’s needs. Firefox has successfully approached this problem through the use of Add-Ons, but Safari continues to lack any widely promoted form of plugin or extension functionality. Despite this, I […] Read more »
Sometimes you watch the pilot of a series and know exactly where it’s going to go. Other times, you watch the pilot and have no clue how the series will shape up over the course of its run. And that is when the wise reviewer of […] Read more »
Handset manufacturers reported disappointing fourth-quarter and end-of-year 2008 results, and carriers are being impacted, too. Despite the bleak current environment, however, the mobile industry is thinking toward the future, and bright spots exist with growing smartphone sales and continued evolution toward 4G ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Make room for another player on the application-store bandwagon. Verizon this week said it is building a storefront for its Hub, a device designed to serve as an Internet-enabled wireless device for the kitchen counter. The carrier joins countless others who offer — or plan to ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
[qi:044] No one really gives two hoots about carriers’ attempts to sell mobile applications via cellular phones. And yet, they keep trying and trying. Maybe a recent survey by Zogby (commissioned by Skype) would help persuade them to leave selling mobile apps to those who know […] Read more »
Following in the footsteps of Apple and its iTunes App store, several mobile companies have announced plans to launch their own storefronts. Research In Motion is looking to launch its store relatively soon, and it took a major step forward when it started accepting applications from […] Read more »
They say good things come in small packages. That certainly is true of the new INQ Social Mobile phone from INQ, a subsidiary of Hutchinson Whampoa, a global wireless company that runs 3G networks in eight countries around the world, including the UK and Australia. INQ’s […] Read more »
UPDATED: Some folks downloaded a lot of stuff from the app market for the Google phone, aka the T-Mobile G1, in the first 24 hours after it opened its doors, according to mobile ad and analytics firm Medialets. And yup, that’s about as precise as they’re […] Read more »
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