Mobile Apps News & Articles

The first week of 2012 has proven beneficial for mobile. There were a few reports that indicated that mobile won’t just be big in 2012, it’s already growing rapidly. But rapid growth has also identified many ways companies are unprepared to leverage mobile to improve online conversion. 

With the popularity of smartphones and tablets in both enterprise and consumer settings, mobile phones, tablets and other portable devices have become a big part in the professional's job search arsenal.

Who doesn’t love good technology -- especially when it comes to mobile enterprise security? This year we’ve spent a good deal of time talking about the threats, the future and the behaviors associated with using mobile in the enterprise.

There has been a growing debate about the utility of location-based applications. Some say they are the future of the gaming industry, while others don’t think that location-based apps are meeting their potential. However, most agree that location-based native and web app development has never been more popular.

UK-based Jadu Inc. announced the availability of its Weejot mobile app publishing service that simplifies the app creation process for web content, with the promise to make it “…easy for non-technical managers and marketers to create and deploy apps to mobile devices,” according to Jadu CEO Suraj Kika.

So where were we? In the first article of this series, What You Need To Know About iOS and Android, we decided that the wise publisher currently targets iOS first and Android second. In a second article, Data Formats for Fixed and Flowable Content, we agreed that HTML is the sensible way to expose a publisher’s content to the world. Today we’ll talk about how we take this content and create wonderful tablet apps.

Mobile workers pay attention. Frankly, who isn’t a mobile worker these days? Whether you are on the train, plane, bus or working from your home office, it’s not always easy to gain access to what you need to be productive. Here are three new apps designed to keep you working, no matter where you are or where you’re going.

In our ever-changing, technology-evolving world, there are a few constants. People need to work and collaborate and want to do it as conveniently as possible. These three elements (work, collaboration and mobility), according to a new report by Forrester, make up what the research company calls a mobile app Internet.

In April, nearly half (48.7%) of smartphone owners in the U.S. were between the ages of 25 and 44. According to the comScore Mobilelens, 25- to 34-year-olds made up the largest segment of the smartphone population representing 27.2% of owners. And younger users, those between the ages of 13 and 24, represented nearly one fourth of all smartphone owners (23.8%).

Adobe (news, site) updates to Flash Builder and Flex mean coders can now produce apps across the trifecta of mobile and tablet environments.

Yahoo (news, site) is looking for new ways to escape the tailslide of desktop search, and is now focusing on finding apps for you

This week, the WHO releases a mobile health warning, Android Apps go un-downloaded, and mobile app privacy policies go unwritten.

The tablet device was supposed to fill that sweet spot between the smartphone and personal computer. And yet, according to a recent AdMob survey of 1,430 tablet owners, the majority (77 percent) use their desktop or laptop PC less after buying the device. Twenty-eight percent use the tablet as their primary PC.

This month we’re focusing on enterprise collaboration. What better way to collaborate than with your smartphone? While some companies are still resistant to integrating employees’ personal mobile devices within their organization’s infrastructure, more companies are learning to embrace and evolve alongside emerging technologies.

Open Text (news, site) is strengthening its mobile strategy today with the acquisition of London-based mobile application platform provider weComm -- any device, everywhere.