Category Archives: Mobile applications
Toptable releases WP8 version of its top table booking app
Fourth screen accounts for 1 in 4 table bookings
A new app for Windows Phone 8 from toptable is designed to help diners discover the perfect restaurant table and make an instantly confirmed booking. Apparently, mobile bookings now account for 25 per cent of seated diners in the UK. Not a lot of people know that. Continue reading
Guest Post: Five essential sports apps for the iPhone
by Tony Buchanan, a writer who occasionally works with Favourit
If you are a sports lover and own an Apple iPhone then there are various great apps which you surely cannot do without. These apps will keep you updated with all information you need. You can get alerts about upcoming events and get news about your favourite teams and much more. Though, of course, there are many sports app that you can download (click on the links). I’ve picked five of the best of them which are listed below. They are all free except for one (Curly’s). Continue reading
After Summly Yahoo! to acquire Tumblr blogs
We’re still waiting for results of Summly acquistion
It appears that Yahoo! – best known for its search engine, is on the acquisition path again according to report coming out of the Wall Street Journal. Current CEO, Marissa Meyer, apparently will be given the go-ahead to purchase Tumblr – the NY based blog hosting site. GoMo News hopes it goes better than Yahoo!’s acquisition of Summly the smartphone app created by Brit, Nick D’Aloisio. It seems that only those residing in the USA can currently enjoy the benefits of Summly technology incorporated into Yahoo!’s mobile apps. Continue reading
Tapjoy partners with Kakao to offer its advertising platform in Kakao Games
Tapjoy becomes the first global advertising platform to help Kakao Games developers monetise their apps
Press release
May 15th 2013. Tapjoy, a leading mobile advertising and publishing platform, has announced an agreement with Kakao, the largest mobile social platform in Korea, to allow developers on the Kakao Games platform to monetise their apps through Tapjoy’s market-leading advertising and monetization tools. Kakao is the provider of the popular mobile messenger app KakaoTalk, which currently has more than 90 million users around the globe, with more than 30 million users visiting the platform every day. Continue reading
Guest Post: Must-have iOS golf apps for passionate players
by Roxana Scott, a blogger & golfbox.com.au fan
iPhones and iPads have levelled the virtual play-field when it comes to golf. Every professional player will tell you that there are certain apps that you cannot live without. These ingenious tools have been helping passionate players improve their game and develop their skills ever since they were first released. Here are my favourite iOS golf tools that you should try at least once. Continue reading
Brits total cheapskates over paid-for Android apps
uSwitch finds we only pay for roughly 11 % of ‘em
There’s a bit of a hole in the Android app ecosystem it seems – especially when it comes to Brits paying for them. New research from uSwitch.com found that whilst on average most have no fewer than 29 apps for their smartphones, they only pay for one in ten ( or around 11 per cent) of their apps. Furthermore, most Android smartphones have become ‘app graveyards’. 61 per cent of Brits use less than half the installed smartphone apps whilst nearly a third (29 per cent) use less than a quarter. Continue reading
Mocana & VeliQ offer mobile app protection for BYOD
Mocana app security automation added to VeliQ’s mPaaS
In a partnership aimed at protecting mobile apps for BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Device) installations, Mocana and VeliQ have announced a strategic partnership. They will integrate the Mocana Mobile App Protection (MAP) solution into VeliQ’s mobility Platform as a Service (mPaaS). The objective is to enable enterprise IT managers to secure mobile apps and their data in seconds, without having to write any code. It will be available from VeliQ as the snappily-named ‘Mobi Mobile App Protection by Mocana’, or MAP. The pair claim it will deepen the security offering of the VeliQ cloud-based mobility Platform as a Service (mPaaS) offering. Continue reading
Fiksu tracking hits 100bn app user actions across 1bn downloads
Cost per loyal user rises just 5% to $1.36
Through its mobile app marketing platform, Fiksu says it indexes depict a steady landscape for mobile app downloads and marketing costs in March 2013. The company has reached something of a landmark having recorded its one hundred billionth app user action and driven more than one billion app downloads. This data from its platform provides the foundation its analysis of the mobile app marketing sector and its ability to drive real-time optimisation of ad campaigns. In March 2013, the Fiksu cost per loyal user index increased by five per cent (or by seven cents) to $1.36 – from February’s $1.29. That’s despite a 12 per cent year-over-year increase in daily download volumes. Continue reading
Chat apps threat to mobile revenues as they overtake SMS as preferred means of messaging
Research by media consultancy Informa has revealed that “over the top” messaging via chat apps such as Apple’s iMessage and WhatsApp is now popular than SMS, undermining mobile operators’ traditional revenues.
The rapid rise of chat apps since their introduction over the last five years is even seen by some analysts as a threat to Facebook’s social networking dominance. Continue reading
Adblock Plus adblocking software still desktop centric
Rating: Even though it zooms past 200 million downloads milestone
Adblock Plus has been trumpeting the fact that it has surpassed 200 million downloads for its adblocking add-on for browser. This has secured its official position as the number one most downloaded browser add-on of all time. However, as GoMo News pointed out in our previous story ‘Adblock Plus warns that 44% have heard of adblocking apps‘, the creators are still very much desktop-centric. We spoteed that only one per cent of those who download the Firefox version of the add-on are Android users. Continue reading
Guest Post: Five mobile finance trends on the rise in 2013
by Trevor Young, director fro product management with OANDA
From travel budgeting; to currency trading; to the concept of a cashless society; -a number of mobile trends are gathering steam in the finance space. The world’s Internet denizens are increasingly embracing mobile computing. It’s not just hype. A growing body of evidence (see Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers (KPCB) report here) supports the notion that the mobile web will free us from the constraints of the desktop. Continue reading
AppGyver helps to put HTML5 apps on Steroids
Rating: AppGyver claims Toolbelt will narrow gap twixt HTML5 & native apps
When Adobe acquired Nitobi, there were high hopes for the rapid development of PhoneGap-based apps. Just like the current situation over Adobe’s lack of interest in continuing Flash for mobile, things haven’t improved much for PhoneGap lovers after Adobe’s acquisition. Until now, perhaps? A San Francisco based startup app company, AppGyver, hopes to outsmart the Adobe powerhouse with the release of its own offering in this sector – Toolbelt. This SDK toolkit is currently in private beta but should be open to the public by June [2013]. Continue reading
Apple still rakes in lion’s share of app revenues, but Google is closing gap fast
Search giant’s app income jumps 90 per cent in just one quarter
App revenues at Google Play are growing much faster than those at rival Apple’s iTunes, though it’s the latter that still accounts for three quarters of all purchases. Collectively the app stores brought in $2.2 billion in the first three months of this year, according to Canalys, with Apple’s App Store generating $1.48 billion of that. But Google is catching up fast. Separate data from another research firm, App Annie, show the search giant has made significant headway from a year ago when its apps generated just a tenth of Apple’s revenues. In fact, Google’s revenues jumped 90 per cent in Q1 2013 from the fourth quarter last year. Continue reading
The Sun heralds Facebook’s Android vapourware
Rating: Never mind versions for WP8 & iOS – what about all Android users?
here at GoMo News we had to giggle. As usual Facebook is lining itself up for a pasting. The UK’s leading national newspaper, The Sun, had been given an exclusive to test out Facebook’s new ‘super-app’ – Facebook Home. The newspaper was absolutely correct in stating that today [April 17th 2013] the Home app is at last available in territories other that Facbeook’s Home market of the USA. Might it accidentally exaggerated the true availability of this particular Android app. Continue reading
New Facebook ‘super app’ leaves users under-whelmed
Clutters up other mobile functions, it’s claimed
Facebook‘s recently launched ‘super app’ for mobile devices has so far proved to be a resounding flop, with fewer than 100,000 people installing it and around half of those giving it the worst possible rating. The social networking site’s app, Facebook Home, was hailed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg as “the best version of Facebook there is” when it was launched last week, but within hours of its release it was hit with a torrent of negative reviews. It replaces the home screen on certain Android devices with its own home screen in which pictures and messages from friends appear. It is also intended to make other aspects of Facebook quicker and easier to locate. Continue reading
