Month: August 2009

More details on delivr's services

URL shortner with mobile focus

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.

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