Oct
11
Even though the holiday season is not yet upon us, the recent announcements of new products from Amazon and Apple can be interpreted as holiday sales. Both the Kindle Fire and the iPhone 4S were announced recently and both will be available immediately before the holiday shopping season. The Fire becomes available on [...]
Jul
28
There has been speculation lately about whether or not Amazon will enter into the tablet wars. Amazon will not confirm any rumors, but data shows consumers are most willing to give their money to an Amazon Android-based tablet over other companies’ options. The real shock of this data is the stated preference of what consumers [...]
Jul
26
Flipboard has spent the past several months building an impressive user base. The application aggregates news and then presents in a reading friendly magazine-like format for the iPad. Until recently it had lacked a revenue model, but as of Monday it has begun displaying advertisements. For now the ads are limited to American Express but [...]
Jul
19
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 [...]
Jun
21
There are two reasons June was a significant month for the digital agency. Tablet and smartphones sales were larger in volume than desktops and notebooks. Secondly, users spent more time on mobile applications than they did viewing web pages. That last development was the result mainly of more sessions per user rather than longer sessions. [...]
Jun
17
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 [...]
Jun
13
There has been debate about whether or not digital agencies ought to refer to the iPad as a mobile device. It is clearly portable, but considering it to be mobile like a smartphone is a stretch, too much for some. The iPad’s size makes it questionable even if it is connected to the internet. The [...]
Jun
09
There is a genre of app that requires the user to be a subscriber. These apps are usually apps of magazines and until now Apple was not allowing them to be in the appstore without levying a hefty fee. Apple had classified these apps as marketplace apps because they sell products within the app instead [...]
Jun
07
Apple announced today that its new iOS will offer a deep integration with Twitter. Users will be able to grant apps access to a Twitter account, so a login is not necessary with every use of the service. The camera will be able to send pictures automatically to Twitter as well as an integration with [...]
May
26
Viz Chef is changing the way we think about cooking applications. The visual cookbook contains more than a list of ingredients with a few pretty pictures and average recipes. The iPad and iPhone cookbook is designed for beginner and intermediate cooks, and contains over 60 dishes and 900 high quality images. This app is better [...]