Mobile Apps News & Articles

There's nary a moment of quiet in the world of web publishing. The broadcasting industry confers about digital strategies, while newspapers work to increase revenue through mobile apps, and Google plays in the book publishing space. And that's not all...

If anyone was in any doubt that competition in the mobile web market is really beginning to heat-up, then yesterday’s release of three new widgets by Nokia (news, site) that will convert web code and scripts created on PCs into mobile applications will fix that.

Possibly concerned that it might be losing out in the battle to win the hearts -- and pockets -- of a market that is increasingly looking to the mobile web, Nokia is hoping these widgets will attract web developers to extend content to the Nokia platform.

Another sign of the growing interest in mobile applications and of the increasing competition in the market comes this week with the news that Zoho Mobile (news, site) is extending its mobile support to additional devices in addition to its current support of Windows Mobile and the iPhone.

As of this week, fans of Zoho applications, which have been developed on a individual basis for select mobile platforms, will be able to access all Zoho apps from an extended list of platforms.

The new platforms include Android, Blackberry, Symbian and the promise of more - like Palm - in the future.
 

It is increasingly common to see updates on social sites such as Facebook and Twitter come from people using their mobile devices. Vufone is a new service from NewACT that makes accessing and managing messages, photos and video across a range of social sites a one-stop task.

Microsoft's Windows Mobile has revealed its strategy to motivate mobile application developers to write applications on the Windows Mobile platform.

Those interested in building and distributing mobile applications through the newly announced Windows Marketplace for Mobile (not yet created), can submit their proposals to Microsoft for inclusion later in 2008. The program will launch in 29 countries and represents Microsoft's counter-offer to Apple's renowned mobile application development process.

Google, one of the Internet's darling companies, is finally starting to feel the economic downtown. Changes are headed for a few Google services including Google Notebook, Google Catalogs, Dodgeball, Google Video, Google Mashup Editor and messaging service Jaiku.

While these services have a strong following, they don't fit in with Google's long term strategy and are, therefore, being jettisoned to save on personnel time and upkeep.

If Macworld wasn't enough to excite you all, worry not, the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicks off today in Las Vegas and runs through January 11. The all-star lineup includes our dear friends at Opera who, aside from a few exciting happenings around their mobile broswer, remained relatively quiet in 2008. But because they spent the bulk of that down time working on their new SDK (unveiled at CES), we're willing to forgive and forget.