Category Archives: mobile developers
Survey finds in-app purchasing ousting app stores
Rating: Survey of app developers using Appcelerator
A survey of 2,012 Appcelerator developers carried out in conjunction with IDC has come up with some gripping conclusions. Others are more blatantly obvious – such as the significance given to Google +’s challenge to Facebook and the rise of cloud computing. We were most fascinated by the overall [...]
Quiz TV show runs on iOS, Android and Facebook
Rating: Sophisticated collection and payments tech behind it
Claiming to be the first ever 24 hour Quiz TV channel which runs on mobile (iOS and Android) and a social network (Facebook), CashPlayTV has just launched. The channel gives players the chance to win instant cash prizes. It’s also sophisticated because it enables players to gamble by paying through PRS (Premium Rate SMS) or via a premium rate call (and costs about £1.50 a throw). Perhaps the most interesting aspect is that app developers can embed the game in unique revenue sharing model. CashPlayTV is being supported with the launch of a £100,000 digital marketing campaign to promote the channel across multiple platforms. Continue reading
GetJar continues as world’s largest free mobile app store
Rating: Comes over all social with Facebook, too
The world’s biggest provider of free mobile apps, GetJar, has just reached another milestone in its history with over tow billion downloads. This figure is greater than any other cross-platform app store. With a truly global customerbase, GetJar has reach this number thanks to its database of over 150,000 applications. It’s not just a one trick pony, either because GetJar offers apps for BlackBerry, Java, Symbian and the mobile web as well as Android. What’s more, GetJar is getting all social as Facebook’s app has become its top most downloaded app with over 100 million downloads. Continue reading
appMobi offers cloudKey mobile payments
Rating: Nothing in the cloud for crooks to steal
As Amazon and Apple have shown (No: 1 and No: 4 online retailers, respectively), a single touch payment system is what consumers like. Now appMobi has improved its own 1Touch system for mobile payments through the integration of its new cloudKey authentication technology. The company claims cloudkey is the most secure way of authenticating payments because consumers’ private data is stored only on their device, never in an online database. With 1Touch developers can offer their users the ability to purchase app content; subscriptions; and merchandise from your mobile app or web site. This mobile wallet technology integrates with most payments backends – including direct operator billing; PayPal; Authorize.Net; and Amazon Payments. Continue reading
Two good gig guide apps for iPhones
Rating: Lemonrock vs Songkick
Whilst researching our Huffington Post story here, we noticed that Ian Hogarth of Songkick was named as one of the UK’s Top 10 Tech CEOs. We discovered to our great delight that Songkick has only recently launched its iPhone app – and very impressive it is, too. Shame there’s no Android version yet. Songkick’s iPhone was only released in June [2011] and was created by Denmark’s Shape. Moreover, it was developed using Songkick’s public API and more details on that are here. The Songkick service describes itself as 100,000 concerts in your pocket and effectively provides a personalised local gig calendar for your favourite bands. However, Songkick reminds us of another favourite site of ours – Lemonrock. Instead of concentrating on the big names in the Music Biz, it covers pub rock. It also just happens to have its own iPhone app, too. Continue reading
Mobile gaming attracts time and money in the UK
An interesting results burst came from the UK today, where games market analysis firm Newzoo has taken a look at how much time and money UK residents put into the gaming. The overall gaming market in the UK looks very interesting – but we’re more interested in where mobile fits in. Continue reading
Why Adobe is losing the mobile development war
Just yesterday, we published an article on how two very different companies were both tackling the same problem in very different ways. The companies were Google and Vdopia, the problem is that Apple iOS doesn’t support Flash, and both of their solutions amounted to the same thing: stop using Flash. Today, yet another company has released a solution that side-steps Adobe. Continue reading
Mobile developers have a lot to gain from Asia
An extremely interesting stat burst came from Distimo today, a company entirely dedicated to application stores. It has taken a long hard look at the Asian application market, and has announced a few lessons that Western developers should heed if they want to get involved. Continue reading
TapJoy will PAY YOU to port your app to Android
Thinking about porting your app to Android? You should go and talk to TapJoy, then, as they’ve just announced a $5 million fund to help developers transition their apps to the Google-owned platform. Continue reading
Mobile gaming: Kiloo says “show me the money!”
PapayaMobile is a mobile social network centered around Android gaming – and today leading mobile game developer Kiloo has announced it will be launching its Android games through the PapayaMobile network. Continue reading
Mobile gaming: OpenFeint’s GameFeed makes sure you’re always in competition
Apple’s WWDC keynote has lit a lot of fires under a lot of asses. And one of those asses belonged to mobile social gaming company OpenFeint. As Apple unveiled recommendations for its Gaming Center, OpenFeint has announced a live news feed called GameFeed that makes you always know when one of your contacts is better than you. Continue reading
AppMobi claims to fix HTML5 speed issue for mobile gaming
As you might be able to guess from the name, appMobi is a company about developing mobile applications. More specifically, it’s interested in providing developers with the tools they need to create HTML and JavaScript applications that can run on any mobile phone or web browser. And today it has announced a new product which it claims can increase the rendering speed of HTML5 games by up to 500% Continue reading
Geodesic to expand from mobile IM to mobile payments
Geodesic Ltd. is an Indian company with an incredibly broad portfolio in the communications industry. Beginning as a cross-platform messaging service (mobile, web and desktop), it has since deepened its presence considerably through acquiring handset makers, customer-relations managers, content companies and more. Now it has set its sights on the mobile payments market – and claims to be close to acquiring a US-based mobile payments company. Continue reading
See the future of mobile development at Mobile 2.0
[ June 16, 2011 to June 17, 2011. ] Mobile 2.0 Europe – openIDEAS Conference is a Two-Day Event on June 16-17th, 2011 exploring the Future of Mobile Development and Innovation of an ever-changing Mobile Ecosystem. Continue reading
Mobile social gaming: Glu Mobile and Blammo team up
One of the most rapid growth areas in the gaming market at the moment is cross-platform social mobile gaming – allowing a smartphone owner to play against any other smartphone owner turns out to be a popular proposition. Today one of the main players in that arena, Glu Mobile, has announced a possibly very intimate deal with iOS game developer Blammo Games. Continue reading
