Thursday, February 24, 2011

Foursquare Looks at Content to Enrich Experience

Multi-OS Mobile App Development Platform Kinoma

With some signs of developing conflict between app developers and app stores, some developers may want to hedge their bets by developing once, for multiple platforms, just in case, Kinoma claims to provide that environment.

Google Pulls Visual VoiceMail, In-App Payments the Reason?

Google has pulled the Visual VoiceMail app from Android Market, citing a violation of the developer payment rules.

Visual VoiceMail believes the reason is that the app does not for process in-app payments through Google Checkout.

What Makes for a Great Mobile App?

Mobile Internet Used Daily by 20% of Americans

Some 20 percent of U.S. mobile phone owners use the mobile Internet every day, according to the 2011 Mobile Internet Attitudes Report from Antenna Software.

The second annual survey conducted by YouGov measured the attitudes, preferences and behaviors of adult consumers in the United States and United Kingdom. Nearly half of respondents also said they would use the mobile Internet each day to stay in touch with friends through instant messaging (21 percent in the UK and 22 percent in the US) and social networking (27 percent).

Measuring Social Media Effectiveness

Roku as "Cable TV Disrupter"

Directv-Dish Merger Fails

Directv’’s termination of its deal to merge with EchoStar, apparently because EchoStar bondholders did not approve, means EchoStar continue...