Over the long weekend (public holiday here yesterday in the UK), I updated my listing of Mobile Market Research to include some research from the last few months. Some of the older links from as far back as 2004 no longer work. However, I have kept them because the titles hold some information.
It’s also often […]

AT&T Developer Program contacted me regarding an interesting research article on their web site, ‘A Call for More Energy Efficient Apps’.
 
A much simplified summary is that changing how much and how often your app downloads data, you can significantly change the battery usage. Allied to this is how much an app pre-fetches. Too much and […]

Chetan Sharma has a new free report on Mobile Cloud Computing. The report covers issues such as devices, pricing, interoperability, discovery and the implications for network operators.
However, the report mainly covers business issues. For mobile developers and people considering implementing Mobile Cloud Services, there are some more practical problems. I have previously written about Scalability, […]

Last month I posted about Motorola’s App Summit in London and how it provided a great introduction to Android Fragments.
Today, I came across the downloadable presentations from the App Summit events. The fragments presentation is very useful for anyone considering programming for Android tablets.

I have previously expressed the view that there are many more uses for mobile than end users consuming apps. One such area is Market Research. That is, using phones as a tool for gathering Market Research Data.
Carrie Robbins has just published her 2nd part of Mobilizing Market Research: Industry Insights on GreenBook. 

There’s a comment that […]

There’s a post (need to be a member to view) on the Mobile Monday London Yahoo Group  that demonstrates a few mistakes that can be easily avoided…
"last year I instructed a company to build me an App, paid a deposit, and low and behold they dissappeared on me after 4 months. Through my networking towards the end […]

Gartner have released research statistics for Q1 2011. Of particular interest to mobile developers will be the ranking by operating system…
 

Gartner makes the observation that…
"Every time a user downloads a native app to their smartphone or puts their data into a platform’s cloud service, they are committing to a particular ecosystem and reducing […]