Category Archives: mobile developers
Mobile cloud: why you should be learning JavaScript
Coming first to GoMo News, today’s report from Richard Rodger (twitter: @rjrodger) claims that within the next ten years, JavaScript will dominate mobile enterprise software. Once considered a toy language useful only for checking form fields on web pages, it will become the essential tool for every cloud service – whether mobile or not. Continue reading
Finalists chosen for Mobile Premier Awards
Last week we announced that the nominees for the Mobile Premier Awards at MWC had been announced – and today, we bring you the finalists. Continue reading
mHealth can drastically reduce cost of chronic disease care
According to a study from www.research2guidance.com, mHealth isn’t really going to come into it’s own until the current market changes. At the moment, the majority of mHealth apps are from independent developers, and provide basic tracking and fitness tools. But the research claims that as traditional healthcare players enter the mHealth app market, we could see a true reduction in the global cost of caring for chronic diseases. Continue reading
Mobile apps and developers get their props at Mobile World Congress
Just earlier this week, the GSMA announced it’s nominees for the Global Mobile Awards at this years Mobile World Congress. But that’s not the only show in town. The Mobile Premier Awards honours the best apps and developers from around the world – with nominees chosen from those who have won at AppCircuses around the world in 2011. Continue reading
mHealth: custom-designed apps can help market healthcare professionals
Last week, we ran a story about ePractice.eu – the company predicts that hospitals and doctors will become the main distributors for mhealth applications, rather than app stores. Conveniently, this week sees a release from Pixineers – a company that develops custom-built mobile apps for medical professionals. Continue reading
Mobile gaming: Nokia still dominates, says BuzzCity
BuzzCity is an extremely wide-spectrum mobile media company – and amongst its many products is the highly popular gaming service Djuzz. BuzzCity has released stats from the service showing the most popular devices used for gaming worldwide, and showcasing the habits of highly succesful games developers. Continue reading
Mobile Developers: enter your app for Mobile Premier Award
Is your app a winner?
The Mobile Premier Awards are the largest open and global cross-platform app competition in the mobile industry. If you want to prove your app has the ability to change the world, or even your little corner of it, then you have to be short listed for a Mobile Premier Award. If you think I’m exaggerating the “change the world” bit, just take a look at some of the categories. This is social entrepreneurship in action – categories include best apps for social change; sustainability & energy; government and, very topically, health & medicine. Continue reading
Hospitals will take over from app stores for mHealth
In the near future, your Doctor might write you a prescription for medication and an application. According to a new German-based global survey, the future of mHealth app distribution could lie outside traditional app store channels. Continue reading
Paid apps may one day overtake the free ones
Distimo does analytics for mobile app stores – it gathers data and information about how consumers interact with application stores. Today it has released it’s full report on the year of 2010, marking the major trends in how people’s use of stores changed over the year. And one of those trends shows that paid apps are becoming more popular. Continue reading
Google finally doing something about app payments
Rating: AT&T customers offered Market billing via their carrier
One reason why Android developers are blatantly earning less than Apple iOS developers is the former’s fraught route to market. Apple apps can be purchased and paid for via iTunes which is an well-established global sales channel. With Android Market, if you live outside the USA then paying for apps is fraught with difficulties. Finally Google is getting to grips with the problem and has just signed up its second US mobile operator- AT&T. The news filtered out of the Android developers’ blog here. As Eric Chu from the Android Developer Ecosystem put it, “AT&T Android users can now easily charge their Android Market purchases to their monthly accounts with only a few clicks.” Continue reading
The Mobile Premier Awards 2011
Submit your app to the AppCircus Categories and get a chance to pitch at Mobile Premier Awards!
GeoGroups turns anything into a location-based social network
GeoGroups is a new developer that has launched an app on the iPhone today. It’s based around the idea of “geo-social” networks – where you create a social group around anything that has a location. Continue reading
Orange lures developers with Partner Connect
Rating: Great way to monetise your Android apps
At a stroke Orange appears to have grabbed a big slice of the Android app market with its Orange Partner Connect programme. The global operator (part of France Telecom) is offering developers a 70/30 revenue share on any apps they sell via the Orange App Shop. The ace up the sleeve is that Orange customers will not only be able to pay in their local currency but also via their phone bills. Orange is also offering developers help with app creation and the chance to plough some of their initial earnings back in promoting their wares on the Orange App Store itself. Continue reading
Can mobile developers really make money from in-app billing?
Bango is a mobile company that pursues two main activities: mobile billing and mobile analytics. It powers a lot of the systems which allow developers to earn revenue from sales relating to apps and mobile content. Which makes it very handy when Bango wants to publish analytics about mobile payments – which is what it has released today. The company claims that in-app billing has been a very small source of revenue for developers this year. Continue reading
Mobile advertising bonanza with Mobango and inneractive
Two very active forces in mobile advertising have announced a partnership – independent mobile applications store Mobango and mobile advertiser inneractive. We take a look at the details of the deal. Continue reading
