What you need to know about being featured on a mobile app store
Distimo has released some insightful data on the impact of being featured on the app store. The last line is the most important Another way to attract attention is by [...]
Tag Archives: android
The Kindle Fire puts Google’s Back to the Wall
Six months ago, I wrote about the struggle the Android tablet would face against iPad. Google’s marketing initiatives alone couldn’t match iPad. Plus, content lock-in would keep iOS users buying [...]
Liberating user data with intents
Intents are one of the most exciting concepts I’ve come across for web and mobile development. Intents is a framework thats free user data. Normally, apps exchange data using application programming [...]
Weekly Tech News for August 14, 2011
Internet Google Plus has rolled out its gaming platform with 16 titles from 10 developers (EA/Popcap, Rovio, Zynga, Wooga, Kabam and others). Google is charging an initial 5% transaction fee, [...]
The black market on iOS
Black markets are nothing new. They crop up for all kinds of reasons: to curb regulation, to defeat (excessive) taxes, to exchange illegal goods. As I read the news this [...]
Weekly Tech News for August 7, 2011
Internet Ecommerce sales increased 14% y/y according to MasterCard, the ninth consecutive month of greater than 10% increase. Minecraft, an indie computer game, announced 3M in cumulative sales generating roughly [...]
Weekly Tech News for July 31, 2011
Internet Akamai released its State of the Internet report: The average monthly 3G traffic is the highest for laptops (1-7 GB), followed by tablets (250-800 MB) and smartphones (80-600 MB) [...]
Android’s struggle: the consumer tablet market
Motorola announced about 400,000 Xooms sold in their quarterly earnings announcement – Android is struggling with tablet sales. I’m reminded of the launch of the G1 in 2008. A year [...]
Amazon should buy a mobile phone carrier
Content has been a primary driver of smart phone adoption. In the first few years, apps were critical. Apple and Google focused on courting developers and released developer counts and [...]
Weekly Tech News for May 15, 2011
Internet At Google I/O, Google: announced Android has 100M activated devices; is growing by 400,000 per day; and has amassed 4.5B app downloads to date. updated the Android Market with [...]
