Windows 8 App Refresh – Bing Search BlogBing News app is now customizable, offers offline reading, and supports RSS; Bing Maps now has "improved driving, transit and walking directions, as well as up-to-the minute traffic incidents notifications...
AT thought leaders are looking at contextual targeting, and full customer management on mobile apps to put the state of mobile apps into context. Keep in mind these are not true mobile apps, rather they're actual web pages that are wrapped around...
Fairsearch's lead lawyer Thomas Vinje claimed that Google is using its mobile software as a "deceptive way to build advantages for key Google apps in 70 percent of the smartphones shipped today," adding that Android hardware makers have...
Apple's Unique Device Identifier (UDID) was the standard mechanism for tracking installs across mobile web and mobile apps for iOS. Cookies cannot be shared across apps or shared between a mobile app and the mobile web.
Google Keep can be downloaded now on devices running Android 4.0 and higher for free, and there's no word yet on iOS, Windows Phone or Blackberry apps. Unlike rival Evernote, though, Google has only released a Keep app for its Android mobile...
Most notably, Bing added a suite of Bing for Windows 8 apps to provide a unique search experience on Windows 8 devices. The mobile and tablet space is increasingly important, and Bing’s mobile search strategy remains focused on enabling customers...
Google has acquired mobile productivity firm Quickoffice in a bid to bolster its Apps platform. While Google is providing little detail on its strategic plans for the Quickoffice team, the company said that the first result of the acquisition would...
The company has long been among the largest providers of hosted applications in those markets with its Apps platform. Talkandroid.com also posted a leaked picture of the Windows version of Google Drive:
As phones and tablets have evolved to rely more on built-in, nonremovable memory, we’re taking another look at this and considering adding a permission for apps to access images. We’ve always had policies in place to remove any apps on Android...
The biggest ones are Apple App Store and Android Market, but Blackberry App World, Samsung Apps Store, Nokia Store, GetJar and Windows Phone Marketplace are just a couple of the alternatives. Badabing Financial Apps” and “Badabing Navigation...
Face.com is the technology that powers the Facebook apps Photo Finder and Photo Tagger. Since those apps debuted, Face.com has been "learning" over 120,000 faces each day. Yandex is the default search engine on Russian Windows mobile phones.
Unless your products are extremely broad appeal, or you're selling mobile download bale goods such as apps, books, music or video, let me save you some time, frustration and money: there is no apparent way to leverage AdMob effectively for...
Yandex, who powers two-thirds of the searches in Russia, has already developed its Windows Phone apps for search, maps, and Yandex Market, a product search app for comparison shopping. It’s good to know that the Windows Phone users in this country...
By that, I mean Google lacks many native apps for platforms like iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, and yes, Android. I was recently questioned by a colleague who was surprised to learn after all the talk about mobile apps and smartphones, that Google...
When it comes to apps in the cloud, Ballmer says Microsoft is “Winning! He feels that users are more comfortable with apps in the cloud than platforms. Nokia will release new Windows 8 devices next week.
Bring it all together and you have a perfect storm for mobile advertising in search, display, and SMS; and across mobile web and native apps. And there are a growing number of QR code readers and apps such as QuickMark (recommended), Scanbuy, MSFT...
Interesting new interactive apps are being created for our cars. I predict a major startup mining rush in the near future with apps for the car. GMC and Buick have integrated Facebook to track and socialize the personalized designs we dream up for...
Microsoft has seemingly given up on supporting apps in their own declining mobile OS (Windows Phone 7). You'll note from the emphasis added above that two of these new features are directly relevant to the iOS marketplace; they directly help users...
Yahoo working with Microsoft to fix Yahoo Mail problems on Windows mobile devices. Twitter introduce clearer and more informative permission screens for users to connect to Twitter Apps. An Update for Yahoo Mail Windows Users - Yahoo Mail Blog
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