Mobile News & Articles

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.

There's a new Sheriff in town, and it's ready to protect iPads. The newly released Sheriff Workspace for Mobile and Windows expands HiSoftware’s SharePoint product suite to include secure mobile collaboration. 

  Apple is preparing to release its third iOS update in as many weeks, this time to combat a surge of jailbreaks as users try to live outside of Apple's walled-garden.

 Commercials are funny things, never more so than when one brand compares itself against another. So, here we see Microsoft trying to raise the profile of Windows Phones, and the Nokia Lumia 920, by challenging users of Samsung's current hero. 

Citing a dynamic app development marketplace and the speed of innovation, Brightcove has announced it is abandoning its hybird HTML5-based video player in favor of native iOS and Android versions.

       Samsung showed off its new Wallet app for Galaxy and other devices today, acting as a digital surrogate for all your tickets and vouchers. When released to the public, it should help pave the way toward wider mobile-based ticketing and shopping. 

Instead of signing in to apps with Facebook or Twitter, there's now the option to sign in with Google+.

 With Samsung's brand dominance, it could release the Galaxy S4 made out of card and wrap and still sell millions. In reality, its specs exceed those of most of its latest Android rivals, who will really use all that power?  And what will it do with the mighty eight-core next-gen Exynos?

Cloud-based contact center solutions and optimization provider inContact has released version 13.1 of its platform. The newest release offers customer service managers the chance to view customer messages in one unified stream, regardless of the channel used. 

As 2013 surges ahead, companies looking for mobile marketing analytics providers might have to add Anametrix to their lists because the company has released mobile app versions for the iOS, Android and Blackberry systems.

Let’s say you’re a retailer with both physical stores and a Website. What are the key trends in retail technology that you need to keep in mind?

The only surprise in today’s announcement from Salesforce that it is adding more muscle to its Service Cloud is that it hasn’t done it before. Given the focus of Salesforce’s customer-centric apps and the fact that so much customer prospecting is done on mobile, adding better mobile functionality is just about obligatory.

There have been a number of new releases this week in document management, including OpenText’s customer communication management system that offers tight Microsoft integration. Xerox has also been busy with the release of ConnectKey, Novell securer’s document with new security measures, and the German national postal service enters the world of mobile apps.

Gadget hounds the world over are enjoying the yearly deluge of new mobile device news pouring out of the Mobile World Congress this week.