Mobile posts

If you are a current restaurant owner and still haven’t jumped on the bandwagon of smartphone applications, you are not just behind on the times, but you are also losing potential customers. Yes, even at this very moment some starving couple is searching for the perfect spot to enjoy a meal by using apps such as Urban Spoon or Yelp, and guess what? They will most certainly be dining with your competitors if they don’t see your company listed. Regardless of the industry you are in, the smartphone app revolution should elicit the participation of all businesses in the market space. Out of the 94%…

Move over Apple!  Android shifted into gear in 2012, providing 93.8 million phones with their operating system.  From the first to the fourth quarter, Android phone sales shifted from 59% of the market to 70%.  So what happened between then and now to spur such a big shift? In February of 2012, Chrome browser for Android was released followed by Google Play in March.  Then in April, Kindle Fire took over more than half of the Android tablet market and in July Android 4.1 was released. By October, Google became more valuable than Microsoft for the first time, as Google Play reached a daily revenue…

Cell phone plans are almost as easy to understand as particle physics. There are so many plans, each with their own freedoms and restrictions, that it can be quite confusing to determine which is the best one for a particular person. Prepaid cell phones, however, take away some of the confusion by avoiding contracts and offering greater flexibility. Could this be behind their current spike in popularity? Getting what is paid for Users of cable and satellite TV already know that paying only for what is needed can be an annoying and impossible challenge. Hundreds of channels are paid for, but only…

It’s a mobile world. Of that, there is little doubt. There is no longer a question about whether the smartphone and mobile industry in general can take over the mind (and hand) share of the data and communications industry. The only question that needs to be answered is who will be able to cash in and who’s going to cash out soon. Android and Apple are in wonderful positions. Microsoft Windows Phones and the newest re-entry into the segment, BlackBerry, are on the bubble. They are alive today, but for how long? Perhaps there’s only room for one of them. Perhaps neither will survive. This small graphic…

For RIM, you are what you eat. The latest twist for tumbling company Research in Motion, they’ve chosen to change their name and branding to reflect who they really are. Instead of being the once-proud RIM brand, they will be known simply as “BlackBerry” going forward. This is a good move. It focuses all attention on the one thing that has a chance of keeping everyone in the company employed: a successful BlackBerry 10 launch. This is their last chance. If they cannot recapture some of the market that they’ve been hemorrhaging for a while, particularly in the business sector, than they will not be…

In many ways, smartphones are actually too smart. They have capabilities that few ever take advantage of and there are so many apps that there’s no way to explore a fraction of them. Smartphones can help you organize, remember, and hack life in general with their capabilities. Used properly, they can even help you make money. This video from Hack College gives us a breakdown of five different ways you can make the most out of your smartphone in a smidgen over a minute. From optimizing your actions to linking to the cloud, these hacks can take your smartphone use to another level.  …

The Apple versus Google battle has been waging since well before anyone even knew there was a rift between the tech giants. Their relationship seemed fine to outsiders for years who saw no legal battles between them and integration of Google products as default on the iPhone, including Google Maps. What was brewing behind the scenes between the last two CEOs at each company was a heated enmity. Today, the smartphone market itself is the battleground but the individual battle that intrigues most is the battle between the voice-recognizing software that turns iOS and Android into virtual assistants…

In the next two years there will be more mobile subscriptions than there will be people that within itself is an amazing statistic to know how much we have come to love our mobile friend, the cell phone. 50% of those beloved cell phones are smartphones and is continuing to grow. …

We all have certain apps that are staples when it comes to sharing our information and content from our smartphone to the social web. Of course we use tools that are native to the associated social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and some of us use other social tools that suit us best and not necessarily ones that are made by the connected social site but ones that we have come to appreciate and some are still in search for apps that help them make sharing easier. Here are 4 social media Android apps for sharing made easier. Some you may already use and some you may still be unaware of, each social…

I think we can all agree that cell phone cases in general lack any luster. Most come in just black or bright pink and a few colors in between. Since we take our smartphones with us everywhere we go it would be nice to dress them up too and since it is 2013, isn’t it about time? …