Mobile News & Articles

 Newly launched, mobile-focused, email manager and productivity boosting service Mailbox has joined forces with Dropbox to provide a more rounded, yet somehow boxier, service. Expect the move to help improve and scale the Mailbox side of the offering. 

This week for the mobile app of the week we’re continuing our search for tools that aid employee engagement with a look at Adobe LiveCycle Mobile ES4, which gives users a mobile environment to work on documents and tasks.

 At its New York event, Samsung has just unveiled its next class-leading smartphone, the Galaxy S4 packing in new hardware updates and software features to make it your life companion. 

There was a time when if your enterprise had an application that offered insights into customer behaviour, the sales and marketing teams were happy. Now, workers want customer intelligence. On the back of that FirstRain has developed a new app that enables enterprises to build customer intelligence apps for any device from Salesforce’s Touch platform.

  With the big show just hours away, the usual suspects are leaking high quality images and final specifications of Samsung's new high-end smartphone, can the hosts provide some magical twist to wow the crowds?

Marketers can no longer rely on flashy apps to attract the interest of mobile consumers, according to a new survey from Siteworx. Results of the “2013 State of Mobile Features and Functionality Report” indicate that mobile shoppers prefer websites to apps and desire ease of use and speed, among other findings.

 The big brother of Amazon's Kindle family has received a price cut in the U.S., while it arrives in new territories to tempt users looking to expand beyond their 7" small-screen borders.

Since 2010, page views via mobile devices have risen by 980 percent. With that, the number of surveys that are taken on smartphones or tablets is increasing -- but are you making it possible for people to complete surveys on their mobile device?

  Carry on collaborating on the move with the new video, chat and contact app from Microsoft to stay in touch wherever you are on your Windows Phone 8 or iPhone device.

  While the use of a child might suggest it is launching some Nintendo-like product, Samsung is hopefully just trying to channel our inner child with its latest teaser for this week's Galaxy S4 launch event. 

 if you want to upgrade your BB device or get back in the BlackBerry fold, the new Z10 smartphone model will be available for $199 on a two year contract. Americans can pre-order it from tomorrow at AT&T.

Tablets are taking over. The new Adobe Digital Index, presented at the Adobe Summit last week in Salt Lake City, finds that websites are already getting more traffic from tablets than from smartphones. 

I was very nervous when I made my plans for attending the south-by-south-west conference. I was scared that the conference was getting too big. Would the conference be dominated by the poseurs and wannabes? Would the startup crowd with dreams of grandeur make every presentation a feebly costumed marketing pitch? This fear was dispelled in my first session. 

In all the strife around HP, the Autonomy acquisition and the fuss around trying to integrate Autonomy’s principal product IDOL into HP’s portfolio, it is often forgotten that Autonomy had other products. One of them was the augmented reality platform Aurasma, which today enters v2.0.

Box is going to very busy over the next year or so as it prepares for its IPO. In the meantime it needs to keep users happy -- after all, happy users generally means happy investors. Last October Box launched Box for Windows 8. This week it is tweaking that and adding some more.