Google Maps Returns to iPhone

Google’s Maps app returned to the Apple app store this week after a forced depature two months ago.   The search giant made the original map application for the iPhone but Apple introduced its own app in September. The Apple Maps app was flawed and highly criticized in the media as lacking some key features, […]

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Twitter Vs Twitter Apps

As reported by Julianne Pepitone of CNN Money, Twitter has become much stricter with the guidelines for their application programming interface (API) to the dismay of many of its most popular app developers. Twitter will strongly restrict access to their map of user connections.  Apps will now be limited in how many times per hour […]

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Great article discussing mobile as, “the Future of Sustainable Development”

Check out this article on Mashable that discusses the role mobile smartphones (and apps) will play to help tackle major social issues like: disease response, education through games, government accountability, saving the rainforest and disaster response.  The article also projects 9 billion global mobile subscriptions by 2017…. hmmm isn’t that just about EVERYONE?

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Camera + opts to stay independent

Here  is a a great article on Techcruch about Camera + – which in my opinion is far and away the best camera app for iPhone. The article is interesting on several fronts: a). Implies the tremendous value and wealth that can be created through an app creation. b). Tells an interesting story about the post-instagram […]

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Android dominates global growth but slows in the US

An interesting post by Ingrid Lunden on Techcrunch suggests that phones build on the Android platform continue to sell at a fierce pace in global markets, but have slowed in the US.   Of the 7 markets (England, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, US and Australia) surveyed by Kantar in the study, Spain had the greatest surge of […]

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Attention all Kids – Google / NORAD release updated Santa Tracker App

NORAD and Google released an updated Santa tracker!  Visit their website here, download the iPhone App here or the Android App here. The updated app utilizes google earth and allows you to track Santa’s movement across social media including google+.  Awesome!!

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Great Checklist of Legal Considerations for Building an App

I stumbled across this article by Attorney Alysa Hutnik – originally published in May 2011 – it provides a good succinct checklist of legal considerations that are important for building an app; read the article here on Mashable.

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Android the front runner in Smartphone market share

Yesterday Marketresearch.com announced that Android has attained 32% of the smartphone market share, up from a mere 13% in 2010.   All projections suggest that the Google powered Android platform will continue to dominate the mass market as the fastest growing sector is the mid-tier, lower priced segment of the smartphone marketplace.   If we were […]

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On Steve Jobs

With the passing of Steve Jobs – there has been almost an endless stream of great commentary about his life and the impact he had on business and culture and the seismic shifts that have occurred because of Apple’s inventions.  Mr. Jobs was a game changer.  To say iTunes and iPods changed the music industry […]

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