Study: iPhone app usage peaks on evenings and weekends

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:14:46 -0500

iPhone application usage reaches its zenith on nights and weekends according to new data issued by mobile analytics platform Localytics. iPhone app behaviors reach their peak ...

Windows Phone developers forced to play the waiting game

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:14:09 -0500

Microsoft is serious about making a fresh start in mobile--last week, Windows Phone Application Platform & Developer Experience program manager Charlie Kindel confirmed ex...

Books now outnumber games in Apple's App Store

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:53:29 -0500

Books now outnumber games in Apple's App Store, marking the first time the games category has failed to dominate total iPhone and iPod touch applications, according to new dat...

Android NDK r3 adds OpenGL ES 2.0 support

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:34:51 -0500

Google announced the launch of the third release of its Android Native Development Kit, enabling developers to target smartphones running Android 1.5 or higher. In addition to...

Appcelerator debuts cross-platform development solution

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:02:56 -0500

Mobile software development platform provider Appcelerator announced the general availability of Appcelerator Titanium 1.0, a cross-platform solution promising developers perf...

Is the OS war poised to become a battle of the sexes?

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:14:28 -0500

Despite the enormity of the divide separating Apple and Google in their race for mobile industry supremacy, it turns out that consumers on their respective iPhone and Android ...

How Thwapr pictures the future of mobile video

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:32:28 -0500

While most mobile video solutions have focused on simplifying users' efforts to post their clips to the web, Thwapr is a free service developed to facilitate video and photo s...

Medialets debuts analytics SDKs for Android, BlackBerry

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:31:46 -0500

Mobile advertising and application analytics platform provider Medialets announced it will release analytics SDKs for the Android and BlackBerry operating systems, extending i...

Palm unveils webOS 1.4

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:48:14 -0500

Palm announced that the latest version of its webOS smartphone platform is now available to consumers via over-the-air update. According to Palm, webOS 1.4 enables users to ca...

No Windows Phone 7 upgrade for existing WinMo devices

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:22:40 -0500

Microsoft said handsets running current versions of its Windows Mobile operating system will not be upgradable to Windows Phone 7 when the new OS is formally introduced later ...