In Estimating the Impact of iOS 6 Organic Search Data Loss s important to take into account all variables (shown below), seemingly complicated, but worth taking the time for an accurate estimate. To make it a little easier, pull the number of iOS...
Maps have become a key battleground in the smartphone wars, not least because of the self-inflicted damage Apple unleashed with its calamitous release of its own geo-location app for iOS 6. Google has reached an agreement to buy navigation app...
Apple has been said to be developing its own wrist-based device, with reports suggesting that both in-house and third-party designs would allow for a wearable iOS wristband running an ergonomic curved glass display.
Of the top 100 grossing apps from the iOS and Android in the last week of Q1, about 40 percent of them used our mobile app install ads," she says. A focus on big brands is why Apple has failed at mobile advertising," notes Krishna Subramanian, CMO...
Google has launched its Now predictive search platform for Apple's iOS. First launched as part of the Jelly Bean update, Google Now serves as the personal assistant for the Android platform, a role filled in iOS by the Siri application.
YouTube for iOS gets access to live streams, My Subscriptions feed, video queuing for TV playback, and more – The Next Web Apple records and keeps users' Siri queries for up to 2 years – Los Angeles TimesData is anonymized after six months, but...
Almost all tracking is done with anonymous device fingerprint tracking, which is about 95 percent accurate – more so for Android, less so for Apple iOS. So if you're building an app for an iOS, Android, Windows Phone or whatever, it won't usually be...
Google Updates Search iOS App With Minor Bug Fixes, Still No Sign Of Google Now – TechCrunchMinor bug fixes and improved voice search. Apple and Yahoo said to be in talks for deeper iPhone partnership – Los Angeles TimesYahoo wants to open up more...
Facebook began reorganizing its business last year to be “mobile first,” and its revamped iOS app was the first step in that direction. Apple is a pretty controlled environment…” and Facebook is in “active dialogue to do more with them, but...
Researchers have estimated that globally Chrome holds some 37 percent of the browser market, while Android has in many markets surpassed Apple's iOS as the most popular smartphone brand. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has squashed talk that...
Apple's Unique Device Identifier (UDID) was the standard mechanism for tracking installs across mobile web and mobile apps for iOS. OpenUDID is a free, open source UDID initiative that uses a copy-and-paste feature in iOS to share data between...
Google has announced improved search and sharing features for its Chrome browser running on Apple's iOS smartphone and tablet platform. For iOS users, the addition of the omnibox search function to the mobile browser lets users search for keywords...
Google will pay Apple $1 billion in 2014 to be the default Internet search provider on iOS devices, including the iPhone and iPad, according Scott Devitt, an analyst at Morgan Stanley. Thirty-one percent of Google's traffic acquisition costs will...
The NRA has also very recently released a target-practice shooting app for iOS that allows the player to act is if they are in a shooting range. Both Apple and Google are also bidding on the keyword in an effort to promote the various apps that...
Google then released an upgraded Google Maps app for iOS devices which offered a significant improvement not only for Apple Maps users but also for users of the previous version of Google Maps. In 2012, Apple unveiled its new iPhone with strong...
Facebook's Pages Manager app had been available on Apple's iOS for some time, allowing Page administrators to edit their pages. Facebook has ported its Pages Manager app to the Android operating system.
Google dealt another blow to Apple today, announcing that its Google Maps for IOS app reached 10 million downloads in just two days. Thanks to the Apple Maps app's lack of accuracy, shoddy satellite images and potentially life-threatening direction...
In iOS 6 Apple decided to default to Google’s secured search. This change iOS 6 brought by Apple choosing to use Google’s SSL search for iPhone users can easily be confused with the Desktop specific SSL search change.
About a month later Scott Forstall, head of iOS Applications left Apple amid rumors of a falling out with Cook over that apology. Travelers visiting parts of Australia are being urged by police not to rely on Apple Maps to guide them.
You can even track downloads in iOS if you integrate a snippet of code into your app. Apple's App Store isn’t very marketer friendly. This roundup covers eight key changes introduced to AdWords in 2012:
