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Fri Feb, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
Foursquare has finally updated its mobile app (both iPhone and Android) to match some of the functionality on its web site. The main difference is an improvement in the Explore function. Some other differences are an ability to change your location (so the user can search around a future location instead of being limited to [...]
Tue Jan, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
As the app explosion takes off the digital agency needs to become skilled in building them. One of the questions facing the development process had always been to build them natively to the operating system or to use HTML5. Forester Research has been answering that question for some time now with, it’s complicated. They have [...]
Wed Dec, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Foursquare claims to have 15 million users and half of them are from outside of the US. That is a large number of users, but new data by Forrester Research casts this number in a pessimistic light. From 2010 to 2011 the number of adults aware of location based apps like Foursquare grew from 16% [...]
Thu Oct, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
On Monday night Google finally released Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), its new version of the Android operating system. ICS was touted as an improvement over Honeycomb, but the changes are actually quite significant. This is an important advancement not only for the smartphones based on Android but for the growing tablet market that [...]
Tue Sep, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Social reading apps are hot right now. We should think of them as a magazine. Every morning the user receives a new edition. The genius of social reading is that the magazine writers are preselected by the user and those people then provide curated content to the magazines. Most of these apps post content by [...]
Fri Sep, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
There are two new changes coming to Google Goggles and both will have some interesting and exciting effects for the digital agency. Goggles is an app that allows smartphone users to perform visual searches. A picture is taken in Goggles and the servers then try to match that image to information on the Google servers. [...]
Tue Jul, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
The New York Times claims there are only about 100 mobile apps native to Android’s Honeycomb platform. When compared to the thousands available for the iPad that number shows a lack of developer interest in native apps for Android tablets. The latest release of Android, version 3.2, was made to help remedy that problem. The [...]
Fri Jun, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
TechCrunch says there are about 80 developers that have been working on Project Spartan for a couple of months now. Project Spartan is FaceBook’s attempt to take HTML5 to a new level, killing applications. Instead of applications, web pages would be able to execute the actions people use apps for. SiteWorx.com The main beneficiary of [...]
Mon May, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Most of the attention over Google’s development of Near Field Communications has been about a mobile payments system. Google has announced a partnership with Ingenico to develop a NFC enabled coupon system where customers will receive updates if they are inside the space of a vendor that cooperates with the program. Daily deals are huge [...]
Mon May, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
People magazine had already been free to print subscribers when using the People App on the iPad. The other magazines in the Time family had required iPad users to pay for their apps. That is changing, however, as now the entire Time family will be free to iPad users who are also print subscribers. The [...]