No longer worry about finding directions, where to book your hotel, or even where the locations of restrooms are when creating your next travel plans. Mobile apps have made planning a vacation a less disorganized event and more of a memorable one. …
There’s a reason why we never do unboxing videos, nor do we ever post them, but this one is different. It takes some unboxing videos from the apparently-extremely-well-secured Google Nexus 7. After watching this video, you’ll know exactly why we don’t do these ourselves. …
The news of Google’s purchase of the 5-person Sparrow team struck me as a bit odd. Sure, they’ve done some great things in email with their native iPad app, but the concept that they were purchased “to bring polish, ‘beauty’, and ease of use to all of its Gmail experiences” isn’t jiving. Google has been in email for a long time now and they have a lot of really smart people working on it. It wouldn’t be hard to reverse-engineer anything that anyone is doing in email (it’s not rocket science, after all). Why buy a team? Some would say it’s a value-buy; $25 million is a drop in the bucket for the Mountain View…
When Bouncer was unleashed this February, it was touted as a one-unit malware detection army. However, researchers have found holes in the Android spyware detector with such an ease that one has to ask Google what the hoopla was all about. Granted, monitoring software for cell phone are becoming more menacing with every passing moment, but surely Google could have conjured up something more steely than an app detector that allows fingerprinting! Bouncer; say what? Bouncer, an automated process for scanning apps which are suspected to have Trojans, spyware and malware like monitoring…
Ever been out and wanted to tell people what you were doing, show them a photo or check into your location? You’re not the only one. Facebook is the number one searched mobile website. There are nearly 2500 variations of search queries with the word “facebook”. Malaysia and Italy use facebook as a keyword; that is twice the global average. When do you use your mobile device most often? On average, mobile user behavior is more significant around the time that you’re tucking yourself in for bed. The amount of usage on a mobile phone is also greater than that of a desktop computer. Nowadays it…
The competition has been getting stronger. Despite continued domination by Apple in the tablet market with their single-size offering, rumors are spreading that they are considering a smaller version of the iPad to compete with the Amazon, Google, and Microsoft amongst others going after the cheaper tablet marketing. This would be a mistake. Instead of taking on the Google Nexus 7 (which started shipping last week), the Amazon Kindle Fire (with a new version expected in the 4th quarter this year), and other offerings with Android and Microsoft software, an “iPad mini” would do more to cannibalize…
They can’t seem to catch a break. News has been bad for the former leader in handset sales worldwide and it’s only gotten worse recently. They announced today that the Lumia 900 Windows phone, their flagship, will be sold at 50% off only three months after its launch. With a 2-year AT&T agreement, the phone costs $49.99. This was expected to some extent after Microsoft announced that the current phones would not be able to run their upcoming Windows 8 software. It has consumers believing that there’s no reason to get any of the current Windows phones and they would be correct. This news comes on…
Imagine walking into a store where it was difficult to see the products. Your eyes begin to strain from squinting and you try to do everything you possibly can to make the products more visible, but nothing worked; would you still want to buy a product there? Now imagine that instead of walking into a store it is one you come across online and the exact same scenario took place, would it make any difference in your buying decision? I don’t think so. Customers expect the same type of attention being paid to what your business sells online as it does to those products sold only in stores. Images are a representation…
According to MobiThinking, 86.7% of the world’s population are mobile subscribers. 1.2 billion of this percentage are mobile web users and 25% of mobile web users only use mobile web or very rarely use desktop websites. In 1996, Nokia launched a very early version of the first ever smartphone. 16 years later we are a smartphone civilization. We have the internet in our back pockets. We share our lives minute by minute via social media, texting and emailing. In another study by MobiThinking, they found that globally, mobile page views have nearly doubled in the year between May 2011 and May 2012….
There was a time when the only apps that restaurants cared about were the ones that people ordered before their meals, often with a dipping sauce and garnish surrounding them. Now, online ordering and other ways of utilizing mobile devices before, during, and after the restaurant visit have given the term “apps” a secondary meaning for many restaurants. It’s big business. Many people will only order online for the convenience factor. They have more control over the situation when they can do it from their computer or mobile device and the concept of walking into a restaurant and ordering from…
Blackberry Keyboard via Shutterstock In some ways, it’s simply a matter of circumstance. In others, it was missteps on their part that have contributed to their slow demise. Research In Motion is in the kind of deep trouble that companies as dominant as they were not too long ago rarely find themselves in so quickly. In an exclusive interview with CIO, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins breaks down the state of the company and the future of BlackBerry. Here’s a quote that exemplifies much of what is happening: “What also happened, in the U.S., was the drive to 4G started, and it got accelerated. Carriers were…
When people say, “there is an app for everything,” that is nothing short of the truth. The medical industry has gone digital with the arrival of medical apps that help doctors diagnose on the go. Now this does not mean that your average Joe should download these apps and drop his HMO. My friend and social media community manager Justin Maas recently injured himself playing Frisbee (who does that?!) and is self-diagnosing his condition. Do I recommend this course of action? Absolutely not. What I do recommend is that you check out these medical apps and see just how efficient the medical field…
