Building a mobile app that requires constant data update from a server is always been a thorny topic for developers. While it is preferable to deliver the most updated information to the end-user all the time, constant use of the radio to poke the server is a battery drain. So, most app chooses to ask [...]
Steve Jobs letter posted in Apple’s web site yesterday has some interesting tidbits which kind of lost with his rant on Flash. He mentioned 200,000 apps, 50,000 of which are games and entertainment titles. Makes me wonder, if iPhone supports Flash, how many titles will it add?
After all that news that Palm is looking for a buyer, you may call this latest Palm activity as feat of desperation or simply just a preparation for Palm’s developer conference this coming Friday, Palm is trying to entice developers to the Web OS platform by waiving the $99 full account fee as you can [...]
The last thing a Smartphone company want to do is to have a press release on the week of a major product release of Apple. Almost everyone in the tech community is focus on giving their accolades, reviews, comments or simply kibitzing on the iPad. Anything outside of the iPad are simply muted and lost [...]
Nokia is still is the leading phone manufacturer in the world but in recent years, Nokia’s market-share particularly in the smartphone segment has been slowly divved up by the likes of BlackBerry, iPhone and Android devices. The fact that developing apps in the Symbian (Nokia’s operating system) is like getting a root canal does not [...]
There was a recent post over at the BlackBerry Developer Zone announcing that the BlackBerry Push APIs are now available in a free version. This is a feature that has been available to alliance partners for the past year or so, but that has apparently all changed. There are now two levels of service, one [...]
A story about the seedy cyber underground AND mobile devices at the same time? It’s too good to pass up! So this story emerged last week about a pair of researchers that created an application called WeatherFirst for iPhone and Android handhelds which demonstrated how easy it would be to add malicious code to an [...]
There has been a lot of news recently about app stores that, I think, is going to lead to a showdown of sorts in few years. I think we’d all be a lot more entertained if they would just strap on six-shooters and get it over with a high noon like the cowboys did, but [...]
<Wooble, credit: ChilliFresh> A post from ChilliFresh, the maker of wobble iPhone app, over 5,000 apps removed from Apple’s App Store over the weekend without the knowledge of app developers. And according to the post, new rules are in-placed banning apps that Apple deem sexually arousing. ChilliFresh needs to remove the silhouette of a woman [...]
Deploying and publishing mobile or Smartphone applications today though well understood is still unchartered territory. To some degree, for app developers, getting their application published is much more time consuming than building the app itself. With the success of the Apple’s App Store, many Smartphone companies joined the bandwagon to make their own app store’s [...]