Ever since mobile devices really started becoming a primary method of surfing the internet and performing various online tasks, experts have debated over whether businesses and organizations need mobile websites, mobile apps, or both to help their presence online. In many ways, it comes down to goals – is it bulk exposure or user stickiness that’s important? This infographic breaks down the statistics surrounding the two types of mobile engagement styles. Click to enlarge. From: Denver Honda Dealers Via: MDG Advertising Hat Tip: Honda Thomasville…

If you’re a smart phone owner you use apps, it’s as simple as that. You might use some more than others (Facebook – cough, cough), but regardless they are an integral part of your smartphone experience. More importantly though – where are you getting these apps? Of course there is the ever-popular Apple store, but it looks like Android is stepping up as a contender in the app match-up. With over 300 million Android smartphones across the globe and 850,000 daily Android activations, Android seems to have taken the mobile world by storm. Besides making the users happy, Android provides a better…

Courtesy for competitors is a thing of the past as Apple removed Android support from app discovery firm Chomp, a company they purchase just a few months ago. It was a silent kill; no mention or blog post. It simply ceased to exist on their homepage. The battle for mobile domination has been heating up since Google tossed their fighter in the ring. There is an uncomfortable symbiotic relationship between Google and Apple as they still need each other for some components of their programs. Google needs to still be a search option on iPhones and iPads with the rise in mobile search revenue while Apple…

It’s just sitting there in your pocket. No noise. No vibration. The smartphone that’s doing “nothing” is probably a whole lot busier than you think. Many of the apps that require constant updates are fighting for the permission to check their respective networks through dormant connections. At times, as this graphic depicts, your phone may be trying to send signals as many as 30 times per attempted connection. As our friends at Amarillo Used Trucks knows, it’s not always what you know about that causes minor harm. If most of them are causing minor harm, the overall problem can be major. Click to…

“Spring cleaning” is a code word for shuttering old, unused products, services, and experiments by Google. CEO Larry Page has been doing spring cleaning every once and a while since taking over last year, including big ones in September and November. The latest round came today as they started dumping products that most people didn’t even know existed. Here is a snapshot of the changes: API changes, mostly regarding limiting usage. The Flu Vaccine Finder is gone. Developed in 2009 during the H1N1 pandemic, the need has since passed by. Google Related is a big loss for some. It was useful for those…

Everyone has startup fever again after Facebook’s huge purchase of Instagram last week, perfect timing for Path to announce a $30 million round of funding led by Redpoint. “We are delighted to announce that last week we closed a significant round of funding with a new set of investor partners,” CEO Dave Morin. “It is important to us to work with investment partners who share common values around quality and building for the long term. Our ‘Path’ has only just begun, and we are looking forward to continuing to bring world-class design and simplicity to the world of mobile personal…

There has been a conspicuous lack of news about Google Apps, their cloud-based business software division, over the past few months that was highlighted by recent departures and reorganization moves as well as a nearly-complete omission during last week’s investor call. CEO Larry Page’s focus on social, search, and advertising in both are making the goals of taking on Microsoft head-to-head in their own territory less emphasized. In short, the last three months, Google has blinked. All of this comes despite positive feedback and strong moves over the last year. Four million businesses use…

Things didn’t look good for Bill Nguyen’s latest startup, Color. They announced their funding on March 23rd of last year and by the next day there were bloggers and tech journalists all asking pretty much the same question: “How does an iPhone photo-sharing app land that kind of money before showing that they have something special?” When a satirical pitch deck emerges making fun of your app and more specifically the people who invested in it, things are bound to get ugly. It’s been a year since the launch. Did the app prove to be successful? Did they prove the silly naysayers wrong? Are they on the…

Microsoft may be trying (and failing) to slow Google’s emergence into business productivity with their Google Apps for Business, but Google is heading in the other direction by demonstrating that they may just have the technology end of it figured out. That’s been the complaint of Microsoft, but Google insists that their products can be just as slick. Their latest marketing video for business apps highlights the reason that some (not many yet, but some) are switching from traditional Microsoft products to the more-collaborative Google variations. Whether they can be robust enough for business…

The mobile-device explosion may be getting fueled in recent months by Kindle Fires and iPads, but smartphones continue to be the foundation of the incredible growth the mobile industry is experiencing. Apps and devices are fulfilling many aspects of our everyday lives in ways that weren’t even imaginable just a couple of years ago. It truly is a mobile world today. This infographic by our friends at MyLookout breaks down the soaring growth of both devices and apps within the segment. Of the plethora of stats included in the graphic, perhaps the most startling is that they are projecting 982 million…