Mobile News & Articles

 Leading Windows Phone maker Nokia is inviting the press to an event next month to show off the future of the Lumia range. Expect more than just the Lumia 928 as the company pushes out from its recent turnaround. 

Social business service LinkedIn is making lots of moves this month, and its latest effort integrates your contacts with the likes of Outlook, your Google information and other sources to create a new breed of personal assistant app.

 Apple has just announced that tickets for its next Worldwide Developer Conference event will go onsale tomorrow with developers likely to get their hands on the next innovations in iOS and OS-X. 

Europeans and Canadians prepare to welcome the first "proper" BlackBerry 10 device, while America gets ready to buy the new Galaxy S4 by the million, not letting some less-than-stellar review comments get in the way. 

After recent high-profile hacks, breaking into Twitter accounts is starting to look like child's play. The company is responding with improved authorization methods to check changes are made by the legitimate owner of an account. 

Starcom MediaVest is a big name among advertising agencies, supporting massive global brands. Twitter will be using the deal as part of its marketing strategy, as it aims to tie its presence to multiple screens, media and brands. 

Apple has reported slightly better than expected results ahead of its earnings call, but sales of iPhones and iPads are losing their dramatic growth of recent years, as the company reports its first drop in profit in a decade. 

At the end of last week, Google announced its figures for Q1 that showed Google up 16% on the year. Google cited increasing willingness by enterprises to use mobile advertising and Google tools as one of the reasons for the lift. This week it offers upgrades to those marketing tools with enhanced campaign improvements for Google+ and mobile apps.

With just about every report showing a boom in mobile advertising revenue, that blissful serenity when viewing Tumblr blogs on iPhone or Android is now being blighted by adverts, but not too many to turn users off. 

Apple will announce smartphone and tablet sales today that almost any other company (bar Samsung) would be proud of. But, since Apple has built itself and its image up to such heights, they are almost inevitably going to be viewed as a failure by the market. 

Nobody wants to spend days or even weeks on app development, but for the biggest companies, this is often the reality. IBM is looking to speed up that timeline with the purchase of UrbanCode, a company that automates software development.

 Yahoo has barely put the welcome mat back in the cupboard for new acquisition Summly, yet it already it has an updated iOS app to make use of the service's summarizing features.

No marketer can afford to underestimate mobile’s unique ability to drive interaction and brand engagement. 

Mountain View, California-based startup Swipp is doing its best to turn its name into a verb. In January, it released the first consumer application of its social intelligence platform, allowing users to swipp (rate/comment and view ratings/comments) specific topics. This week, it is launching a new social intelligence suite for businesses, Swipp Plus.  

TweetDeck has long been a favorite resource for those scanning Twitter across multiple accounts and dimensions. But the app editions will soon be removed from iOS, Android and PC stores to make way for a pure-web version.