Author: Jason Grigsby

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Those were the headlines from the smartphone portion of Gartner's 2009 Q2 mobile phone report, which saw smartphone sales grow 27% even as overall mobile phone sales, feeling recessionary pressure, fell 6%.

In short, Apple denies that they rejected the Google Voice application, but they go into great detail about how the Google Voice application hurts “the iPhone’s distinctive user experience.” All of those statements are either untrue, or misleading, or both.

To be up against the raw market is risky enough, but to have to mentally grapple with the real possibility of some random reviewer's power trip banishing my months of design work to the bit bucket is unnerving to say the least.

With 17,000 reviews per week and 45 reviewers, that means each reviewer performs 378 reviews per week. At 40 hours per week, this is 9.4 reviews per hour, or one review every 6.4 minutes.

“It’s up to you play your pricing, but we would definitely want to promote that you make more money selling applications than selling your application in a dollar store,” said Loke Uei of Microsoft’s Mobile Developer Experience Team.

Apple has reversed course on the rejection an iPhone app featuring art of President Obama, the title's developer says.

venture backed mobile startups are generally developing apps which work on multiple mobile operating systems vs those which are platform specific

TextMagic, a provider of SMS-focused solutions for businesses and developers, has launched a new bulk SMS Gateway API to allow for any application developer to connect to more than 700 global mobile networks

The Sports Data Query Language (SDQL) allows you to check past performance of sports teams in virtually any situation.

The service is aimed primarily at small to medium-sized businesses who don't have an in-house or on-call engineering team capable of developing mobile applications. Instead, using the Sweb Apps website, business owners can create their own iPhone application themselves in as little as five minutes, says the company.

A quick introduction on mobile apps using HTML, CSS; JavaScript – W3C Widgets, Phonegap, etc.

Your current feed reader is full of unread items. You’re hesitant to subscribe to any more feeds because you can't keep up with your existing subs. Maybe you've even abandoned feeds altogether.

Fever takes the temperature of your slice of the web and shows you what's hot.

When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in.

One thing we have to say about Google, Google is committed to the Web and the Mobile Web. It is prepared to take the leadership in areas like HTML5(where it so lacked from the W3c) and run with it.

Tracking the cryptic messages the iPhone App reviewers give developers

It continues to blow us away just how quickly the iPhone is moving mobile email forward. The iPhone now caters for 5.78% of the email client market, breezing past Gmail to become the 5th most popular email client in the world.

Timeline of the iPhone's development

Cool effects that even work in IE

View colors and the line numbers they are on

How to write upside down in Twitter, Myspace or my Blog?
Type in your text and push the "Flip Text" Button. It's cool!

The main aspect of SMPP that makes it favorable, is the fact that SMPP enables a direct connection to the carriers, and subsequently enables instant delivery to the recipients- a quality that’s very important in a mobile marketing campaign.

For Windows developers who want to preview their work on Mobile Safari

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that Americans are increasingly accessing the Internet with mobile devices, with the trend especially prevalent among minorities. Among whites, 33 percent more used a handset than in 2007, but among African-Americans, the increase was 65.5 percent and among Latinos it was 23.7 percent.

Since then we have seen the average price for apps continue to fall and recently we may have seem some of the most vocal advocates of that price point have recently lowered their prices and seem to be settling in at $3.99/$4.99 now.

In Medialets test, they are specifically testing WebKit JavaScript performance.

"When mobile users, who are accessing content via carrier networks, come across mobile services and solutions, they could easily purchase by way of being billed directly by their carrier. When that same user is connecting via WiFi, operator billing is not accessible, which in turn adds more steps for that user to purchase and cuts conversions significantly."

• 5 in 10 consumers on both iPhone and iPod touch devices use the mobile Web more frequently than they read printed newspapers.
• More than 40% of users of both devices reported using the Internet on their mobile device more often than using the Web from their computers or listening to the radio.

While the iPhone still dominates the application market, Google Android has managed to prevent Apple from widening the gap. With 1) reports that roughly 20 more Android handsets will ship during 2009, 2) continued application saturation in the App Store making it harder for developers to compete for consumer downloads and 3) the relative ease required to develop for Android versus iPhone, Google appears well positioned to chip away at iPhone's dominant position.

I’ve never doubted the viability of running a serious business of writing iPhone apps before. For the first time, now, I am.

Argh. So many factual errors in this opinion piece.

One-third of all mobile phones in the global market will incorporate accelerometers next year, according to a new report from iSuppli.

even Google was not rich enough to support all of the different mobile platforms from Apple’s AppStore to those of the BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android and the many variations of the Nokia platform.

"Why it is that I’ll spend $2.25 to ride the subway without blinking an eye, but I have an agonizing decision to make when a game is listed over $1.99 on the App Store."