Mobile News & Articles

The center of gravity for personal computing may have moved to mobile devices, but most companies are still not able to determine if their mobile apps and content are helping them. That’s a key finding in a new report, "Mobile Sophistication and Strategy" published by Econsultancy.

This month at CMSWire we’re doing a special Facebook series on tools the social networks offers. With this in mind our first article looks at the functionality of the Facebook mobile app.

Three speakers at the closing general session of yesterday’s Adobe Summit -- Bill Briggs, Global Head of Deloitte Digital, John Battelle, Founder of Federated Media, and Adam Bain, President of Revenue for Twitter -- all discussed different aspects of how digital is becoming the primary, and possibly even sole, channel for marketers to engage consumers.

Mobile technology is a great “release valve” for what Vibes CEO and Mobile Marketing Association Chairman Jack Philbin described as the “balloon” of Big Data during the session “The New Mobile Playbook – Turning Big Data into Big Dollars,” at the Adobe Summit.

According to reports, blogging website Tumblr will be venturing into the mobile advertising market.

Harmon.ie is giving BlackBerry 10 users access to Office 365 and SharePoint both online and offline.

Cloud-based social enterprise solutions provider Saba Software is enhancing the platform supporting its flagship People Cloud application. The platform upgrades will provide new People Cloud features in areas such as mobile applications and Big Data.

We could spend all day today just talking about the new products and product updates coming out of the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit, and we likely will. Here's the first kick at the news covering the Marketing Cloud.

Although it's no stranger to Bemoko, SDL's acquisition of the mobile solutions provider means even better customer experiences for SDL customers.

Update: I had a quick chat with Ian Truscott, VP of Product Marketing for SDL Content Management Technologies division, about the acquisition.

Marketing automation vendor Silverpop has added more SMS based data collection to its offerings, a move designed to help target Web, email social and mobile channels with highly personalized content.

Opera Software has released a beta version of Opera for Android. With this release, the company boasts a more organized browser with increased functionality.

This month at CMSWire, we are diving into the strategies and tools for employee engagement. With that in mind, our first mobile app of the week for March is SuMo sustainability employee engagement app from CloudApps.

While the road to designing and developing a mobile app is easier than it once was, it’s still not something that has become streamlined within organizations. Developing is hard enough, but when it comes to managing a mobile app’s content, there are challenges ahead.

Testers are the unsung heroes of app development. They have to keep stumbling into the potholes so that, eventually, all the faults are found and the street is paved, smooth and ready for a nice drive. To help lessen the testing pain for iOS devices, Telerik has unveiled its latest version of Test Studio for iOS, with a cloud sync web portal. 

Samsung is the new Apple. At least until the hype machine builds up for the next iPhone. For now, Samsung is ramping up for its March 14 debut of the next must have superphone, the Galaxy S4.