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Nokia PureView 808, The Best Smartphone Camera In The World - Perhaps!

There’s no question that indeed, the Nokia PureView 808 may in fact be the World’s best smartphone camera… hands down! Given that I’m a huge believer that the Nokia N8 was likely the killer camera prior to this year, indeed there’s no reason to doubt that the PureView 808 is now holding that spot. With [...]

THE VA Challenging Mobile / Map Developers to Help Homeless With Project Reach Competition

This is a terrific opportunity for mobile mapping professionals and LBS developers – An innovative competition from the VA (via Challenge.gov initiative)  launches in a couple of days in an effort to spur on the developer community to create useful mobile apps that can help the homeless and others that are in need.  From the [...]

10 Useful Resources to Bookmark for the Mobile Developer and Mobile Geek!

There’s so many developer resources, portals, devzones and the like out there.. so where does one begin when they want to jump in to mobile app development? Obviously that depends on the platform of choice, the resources at hand and many other variables. Here’s 10 simple and useful dev resources that any mobile geek can [...]

App Express App Creation for iOS and Android Launches at SXSW

Here’s details of an interesting mobile app creation resource that launched this week at SXSW – App Express. This clever self-serve app builder creates professional, sophisticated apps that solve the hard problems for SMBs, such as payments, appointment scheduling, couponing and messaging. App Express features include:

Appointment scheduling – display availability and schedule appointments
Payments – invoice and receive payments [...]

The Road ahead from Stephen Elop, Nokia Location Services, asks Who, What, Where?

From MWC this past week in Barcelona, NOKIA CEO Stephen Elop used aPR event to discuss the year in review and then break into what would be in store from Nokia in 2012 including news devices and details of Nokia maps and Nokia’s Location Services move. Recall, at the event in 2011 Elop focused on [...]

comScore 2012 Mobile Future Report Sees Tablet growth, Android uptake, Social networking

comScore Releases the 2012 Mobile Future in Focus Report  - The report highlights insights primarily from mobile markets in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Japan, and Canada. From the report, Smartphone Platform Wars Intensify as Android and Apple Take the Lead in Most Markets and interesting to see how much [...]

2012 Mobile Future Report Sees Android with Half the US Smarphone Market, iOS 30%

More interesting mobile industry research today, this time via the 2012 Mobile Future in Focus Report from comScore Inc. This report looks at key trends driving smartphone adoption growth, mobile media usage in categories such as social networking and retail, mobile ecosystem dynamics, and shifts in multi-device digital media consumption. Some of the findings this year [...]

Opportunity Knocks for Mobile Developers - Enter The AT&T Mobile App Hackathon

An interesting event for mobile developers, geo mashup artists and others that are interested in a cool challenge – the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon – scheduled to take place the week-end of March 23-24 in San Diego. Some details… Our Mobile App Hackathon (an event produced by the AT&T Developer Program, City of San Diego, [...]

Can free NFC Business Cards at SXSW Entice Use of NFC Codes and What About QR Code Use?

I appreciate how loads of cool technology is showcased at SXSW each year. Tons of companies use the event to launch their latest cool apps and services… much of this is mobile technology. Companies elect to be there mainly due to the sheer massive volumes of people at the event (keep in mind, many of [...]

Nokia Purview 808 Smartphone Hits MWC2012

So, what’s taking place in Barcelona this week? Well, Nokia for one is out in full force this week at the MWC event in Spain. Kicking off the week, the device maker has been making a splash with another new device, the Purview 808 (http://europe.nokia.com/pureview). This sweet unit could be the mobile photographer’s dream device [...]

Checkin and Share on Google G+ Via the New Google Maps Mobile on Android

Google recently rolled out an update to the Google Maps mobile app for Android.  Here’s how it works. Load up gMaps and locate yourself (make sure GPS is enabled). Then, using the drop-down menu in the top left corner, drop down the options that are available to you. In the middle you’ll notice an option [...]

Mobile World Congress #MWC Makes Plans For Barcelona Transit Strike During Event!

Oh my! What do you do when you have one of the largest Mobile technology conferences in the World and a planned Bus Transit strike taking place during the same week? Yep… that’s what’s taking place in Barcelona, Spain next week during the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) hosted by the GSMA. Some details… The [...]