applications

Google-Verizon Taking on Apple-AT&T

Kit Eaton — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:52:03 -0400

Google and Verizon have just announced a "groundbreaking" agreement to maximize the chances for success of the Android OS in the U.S. smartphone market. Their intended target? Beating Apple and AT&T at their own game.

Facebook Aims for the Heart of Mobile Social Networking: Apps

Kit Eaton — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:37:20 -0400

When I joked everything would soon be wired to a social network the other day I didn't realize how close I was to the mark. Because social net giant Facebook is angling to become the vehicle that lets everything on your smartphone get social.

Will Smartphones Help Crack the Economy's Secrets?

Kit Eaton — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:46:12 -0400

Smartphones: They really are the personal electronic assistants envisioned in the sci-fi novels of yesteryear. Their latest trick: They just might be able to predict the direction of the economy.

Motorola to Inject Life Into Android, With Developer Program

Kit Eaton — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:39:57 -0400

It's becoming clear--the future of the smartphone is intimately tied with app development, and that's something Motorola knows. It's trying to promote app building for the Android platform with a new MOTODEV program.

Palm Pre Code Leaks, Indie Apps Follow

Kit Eaton — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:09:49 -0400

Coders have been hard at work since this past weekend's Pre launch delving into the digital innards of the phone. By tweaking the Reset Doctor, designed to resurrect a crashed phone, they've found all of webOS's root code, and that's led to the first independently developed Palm Pre "apps."

Ning Revs-Up Its Social Network With Apps

Kit Eaton — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:51:54 -0400

For a little over three years, Ning has offered its platform for users to create their own online social networking sites. Now the company is adding a serious upgrade: Developers of each social network site will gain access to new network-wide applications that site visitors can use.

Mobile App Mania

Farhad Manjoo — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:00:00 -0400

If you hold shares in Apple and you're keen to help the company boost iPhone sales -- not that it needs your help -- try this: Next time you're at an office happy hour, whip out your phone, open the App Store, and buy a title called Ocarina (it'll set you back a buck). Now hand the phone over to an iPhone skeptic and watch him figure it out.

Palm's Pre Gets More Interesting: WebOS Has Classic PalmOS Emulator

Kit Eaton — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:41:43 -0400

One cloud hovering over the potential success of Palm's upcoming Pre smartphone was its empty app store--definitely something for new buyers to bear in mind. But Palm, it seems, has got that base covered: the Pre's funky new WebOS will sport a "classic PalmOS" emulator mode.

How to Build an iPhone App That Doesn't Suck

Chris Dannen — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:45:03 -0400

If it's not intuitive and good-looking, iPhone owners simply won't use it. Applications that are text-heavy tend to create too much cognitive load, while apps that use a combination of images and sparse text are much more manageable. Take a look at Flixter's movie listings, that cram all the relevant information you need about a movie right next to its cover image, creating a rich list that requires very few taps to access information about a given movie.

Can Nokia's Ovi App Store Compete with Apple's?

Kit Eaton — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:59:06 -0500

Nokia's just pulled the wrappers off of its Ovi application store at Mobile World Congress--can it really compete against the might of Apple's App Store and the iTunes eco-system?

Mobile Money Madness

Guy Smith — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:40:06 -0500

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fBook Joins Social Media Lineup on Android Market

Lynne d Johnson — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:41:05 -0500

Since first writing about, "A Week Inside T-Mobile's G1," I've had a fun time setting up apps from Android's Market on my phone. In fact, that's that best part of the phone, having the ability to access apps that enable you to actually do something other than make a call.

11 Facebook Applications That Were Built to Fail

Brendan Collins and Rachel King — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:45:05 -0400