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Mobile app standoff: Web app vs. native app

Posted May 21, 2012 - 8:59 pm

For resources-strapped companies that want to get in the mobile app game, a Web app tuned for smartphones and tablets is a wise choice. Just ask Texas insurance provider ANICO.
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Appsbar gives small businesses a simple (and free!) template for app building

Posted May 17, 2012 - 9:28 pm

If you've ever wanted to build a mobile app for your small business but have been intimidated by the cost of hiring developers, Appsbar has a proposition for you.
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What enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games

Posted May 14, 2012 - 3:43 pm

Enterprise mobile apps are shifting from small, narrowly task-oriented programs to larger, more complex ones. To design them well, enterprise developers can learn a lot from a surprising source: mobile games.
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Angry Birds Land theme park opens in Finland

Posted May 5, 2012 - 7:50 am

Angry Birds Land, based on the bestselling game, catapults its way into Finland's Sarkanniemi Adventure Park
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Location-based services: are they there yet?

Posted May 5, 2012 - 7:50 am

Mobile apps that use your location to offer services are no longer new. But are they truly useful to businesses? We look at Facebook, Foursquare, Google Latitude and Yelp to see how they're doing.
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Texas supermarket stocks up on iPhones, Mobile apps

Posted May 1, 2012 - 7:12 am

Texas grocery store chain United Supermarkets starts down the iPhone trail with a mobile workforce management app that simplifies communication and keeps shift schedules under control. But this Lone Star chain has only begun circling the mobile wagons.
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The hidden ways mobile sites and free games are killing your battery

Posted April 23, 2012 - 9:38 am

You know that streaming music over 3G draws a lot of smartphone energy. But inefficient CSS, image file choices, and geo-locating advertisements are hogging your battery in less overt ways, according to recent studies.
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Mobile apps can feature ready-to-use cloud services

Posted April 18, 2012 - 7:40 am

Cloud-based app features and services now can quickly be included in mobile apps, with an improved toolset from Appcelerator.
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3 tips for actually making money making mobile apps

Posted April 14, 2012 - 7:54 am

Let's face it: Your prospects of becoming an overnight billionaire by inventing the next Instagram probably aren't good.
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Keeping track of your expenses: Three apps to check out

Posted April 14, 2012 - 7:32 am

If you run a micro-business, you're likely stuffing your receipts into a file cabinet and hauling them all out at tax time for your accountant to sort out. But there’s a better way. These mobile apps let you take a picture of your receipt and save it to an expense entry. It's important to look for a package that lets you take a pictorial record of your receipts for a couple of reasons.
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The Angry Birds Space approach to enterprise mobile apps

Posted April 4, 2012 - 7:41 am

Revenge, it turns out, is a dish best served on a smart phone.
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Path tightens mobile app security

Posted April 3, 2012 - 9:32 pm

Social networking service Path has upgraded the security of its mobile application in apparent response to a recent outcry over its data gathering practices.
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Making sense of mobile device, app, and information management

Posted March 29, 2012 - 12:51 pm

As BYOD moves out of basic email access, IT seeks control over apps and data on users' devices. What can IT actually get?
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How one city used smartphones to fix its streets

Posted March 27, 2012 - 9:52 pm

The CIO of the City of Cambridge, Mass., developed an iPhone and Android app that citizens can use to report potholes, vandalism and other issues and track that they are being fixed.
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Strategic guide to enterprise mobile applications

Posted March 26, 2012 - 2:11 pm

Download our ebook for advice from peers about how to create a mobile apps strategy, identify the key challenges and build an enterprise app store.
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HP releases tools for mobile app development

Posted March 24, 2012 - 7:52 am

HP announced on Tuesday the release of several tools aimed at simplifying the enterprise mobile application development and deployment processes.
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8 realities about location-based apps

Posted March 24, 2012 - 7:48 am

Use your common sense before buying into the hype of location-based apps.
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Finding the best iOS podcast manager in Apple's App Store

Posted March 17, 2012 - 7:55 am

Podcasting as a medium exists mostly because of Apple's iPod. Before the MP3 player hit the market, there wasn't much of an audience for mobile, digital audio on demand.
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The mobile app developer's dilemma: How to get paid without annoying users

Posted March 17, 2012 - 7:31 am

If there was one common theme among the app developers speaking at Xconomy's Mobile Madness program today, it was this: Don't take your users for granted.
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Get out of my driveway, social-mobile-location apps

Posted March 12, 2012 - 4:19 pm

How many of your neighbors became friends by jumping into your driveway and yelling, “Kapow! Your neighbor, me, just had some explosively spicy Chinese food!”
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Android on call: Hospital builds custom mobile app for patient data

Posted February 25, 2012 - 8:44 am

Palomar Pomerado Health in San Diego built its own Android app for accessing real-time patient information, with Cisco Cius tablets providing the added bonus of voice and video. And an iOS version is coming up, stat.
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We need higher privacy standards

Posted February 19, 2012 - 12:40 pm

Industry insiders defend Google's Safari hack and Path's phonebook theft as standard industry practices. We can -- and must -- do better than that.
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How to install carrier-blocked apps on your phone

Posted February 11, 2012 - 8:30 am

The crafty folks over at Droid-Life have discovered that, through the sorcery that is the Android browser, you can install apps that were previously blocked by carriers. This means that you can get Google Wallet on a none-Sprint phone, as well as any apps that allow you to (illegally) tether.
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Election fever: 6 mobile apps that can keep you informed

Posted February 11, 2012 - 8:28 am

The big game is on -- and by that, we don't mean football, basketball, baseball or Angry Birds. We're talking about the biggest pastime in the U.S.: Watching (and taking part in) the current Republican primaries and the upcoming presidential elections.
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'Intrigued' Kleiner Perkins mulls $100 million cloud services fund

Posted February 10, 2012 - 8:27 pm

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is considering a $100 million fund specializing in cloud services start-ups.
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