By Hannah Johnson Often, publishers and content creators develop for Apple devices first, and then think about expanding development to the Android, Blackberry and other mobile platforms. However, a new report from tech industry analysis firm Canalys shows that Android and Nokia’s Symbian platforms have shipped more devices worldwide. In 2011, as competition heats up in the mobile sphere both …
App Downloads Explode: 755m in Germany, 3.9bn Worldwide in Q1 & Q2
By Siobhan O’Leary Germans love their apps now more than ever. Based on data provided by the market research institute research2guidance, BITKOM [the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media] estimates that German mobile phone users will have downloaded 755 million apps by the end of 2010 — that’s a 78% increase over last year. In the first …
New BlackBerry (But Not in the UAE), Connecticut Investigates Agency Model
By Hannah Johnson BlackBerry Torch Announced (But the UAE Doesn’t Get Any) Research In Motion unveiled its newest device, the BlackBerry Torch. It has a touchscreen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. In addition to all the usual smartphone features (fancy camera, LED flash, GPS chip, and 32G of storage), the Torch also uses an updated text reflow function in the …