Category: Smartphones
The iPad is leading the tablet charge in small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), resulting in a growth spurt that puts the Apple device out in front of nearly all other comers when it comes to new ActiveSync activations performed by enterprise cloud services provider Intermedia. I say nearly because there’s still one device that sees even more activations: the iPhone.Continue
Wieden + Kennedy's Nokia love story ends with a bang, they're teamed up with Sumo Science at Aardman to create the worlds largest stop motion animation.Continue
A London-based research firm called VisionMobile has released a new method of tracking "openness" among mobile platforms called the Open Governance Index. According to its metrics, Android is the least "open" of all the supposedly open source mobile platforms, with a 23% openness rating. Eclipse, an open development platform comprise of extensible networks and tools, was rated the most open at 84%.Continue
Appcelerator & IDC's new mobile developer survey is out now, with details on a wide range of development trends including platform choice, developers' future plans and mobile industry challenges. Notably, the companies have now added HTML5 as a new option to rank among mobile development platforms, and its middle-of-road showing indicates that mobile websites are increasingly a complementary requirement for today's mobile developers.Continue
Mobile application developers believe that Google's new social network Google Plus will have more impact on mobile growth and adoption than Apple's iCloud, or even iOS 5's Twitter integration. This is just one of the fascinating findings related to Google Plus revealed within the results of a new developer survey led by mobile cloud platform provider Appcelerator and analyst firm IDC. Together, the two companies had surveyed 2,012 app developers to better understand their take on current and future mobile trends.Continue
Android may now be bigger than iOS in terms of mobile subscribers in the U.S. But in so far as app developers are concerned, iPads and iPods are still handing Apple’s platform the lead in terms of unique users.
We periodically look at active usage of Facebook’s various smartphone clients to get some insight into market sizing on top of the statistics that Nielsen, Comscore and companies themselves like Apple and Google publicly report. Not every smartphone user downloads or actively uses Facebook. Nor does the social network have perfect geographic reach as it’s banned or still growing rapidly in some regions of the world.Continue
Facebook announced today that 
Are you an iOS developer thinking about dipping your toe into the Android pool? If so, you should read