mobile apps
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo October saw silicon.com cast its eye over the top iPhone apps for business. Check out what other useful apps your iPhone needs in the full story here. The mobile present was also... [12 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo People can exchange real-time IM, photos, videos, maps and documents within the wave but it is the wave's ability to handle custom apps that promises to be the most useful for business. Later in the day a manager is able... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo Here Salesforce demonstrates the Wave CRM app in use by the mobile phone apps company Booyah. Tech companies are already creating custom apps for Google Wave, with software-as-a-service... [30 Oct 2009]
Photos: Top iPhone apps for business
Photo Apple's iPhone might be seen by many as largely a consumer device, with games and media apps regularly topping the 'What's Hot' list on iTunes. However, the App Store currently stocks more than 2,000 business... [27 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment A number of e-reader apps - such as Stanza, Classics and Short Covers - have been available for some time on Apple's ubiquitous iPhone. The explosion of increasingly sophisticated mobile devices, coupled... [27 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet In a recent report, the company predicted revenue associated with augmented reality will grow from a modest $6m in 2008 to more than $350m in 2014 - a hike of more than 5,700 per cent - largley due to to mobile... [27 Oct 2009]
Augmented reality's time is coming thanks to smarter smartphones
News The revenues from such industries, however, will soon be outstripped by advertising and mobile apps sales, ABI research said. This growth will be stoked by smartphones packing a range of high-end... [26 Oct 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News Mobile apps As high-end mobiles continue to see high adoption rates, the associated apps and app stores will become of increasing strategic importance. 2009 may not be over yet but... [22 Oct 2009]
BBC iPlayer gets ready to go Worldwide
News Bradley-Jones also said BBC Worldwide plans to launch news and sport mobile apps in the next few months. BBC Worldwide has confirmed it wants to launch an iPlayer-style paid-for video platform, allowing... [12 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News For example, mobile apps on smartphones might not be important to a manufacturer, though they might be very interesting to a professional services firm, the Forrester Research report The Top 15... [12 Oct 2009]
Amazon offers to be man in the middle for mobile payments
News Amazon is moving into the world of mobile payments with the launch of a new service that will allow consumers to buy goods, services and mobile apps using the payment information stored... [07 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News Despite Apple rejecting some iPhone apps, it's approved the potential risk to its own business that is music service Spotify. From later on this year, the iPhone will be available on Orange, as well as Vodafone.iPhone... [06 Oct 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Of the reasons why Schmidt merited fourth spot on the Agenda Setters list, one panellist said Google "is the cloud" and its move to corporate apps is likely to be "hugely significant", potentially contributing to the... [29 Sep 2009]
Naked CIO: Beware the mobile app frenzy
Comment The iPhone and others have caused a growth spurt in mobile apps, says the Naked CIO. For many years I have argued that mobile providers neglected and abandoned business customers in... [21 Sep 2009]
Photos: Motorola's first Android device
Photo This keeps users from having to open and close lots of apps but could result in information overload. In the US, the Cliq will be exclusive to T-Mobile and will be available later this year. It will be... [14 Sep 2009]