Japan. It’s those wacky Japanese consumers who are now starting to sway the global top-10 app sales charts. According to brand new App Annie August …
When Apple first released the iPad back in 2010, rival vendors scrambled to release 10-inch tablets that might compete in the re-emerging media tablet category. …
UK-based King, the creator of “Candy Crush Saga,” has filed for an IPO in the United States. Expected valuation tops $5 billion. King is the …
Mobile apps linked to messaging services are taking over the two most important Asian app markets, Japan and Korea. Today, nine out of the ten biggest revenue generators …
The typical narrative surrounding BlackBerry’s current woes is that the company reacted far too slowly to the threat that the iPhone posed and thus planted …
Google’s Android operating system has ruled the roost in China for a while now but research firm IDC thinks that its iron grip on the …
Foap, the royalty free stock photo market, has had an app available on iOS devices for a while, but on Wednesday, September 18th, the app …
Distimo’s new August survey offers yet another snapshot of just how quickly Google Play is narrowing the gap behind iOS in app revenue generation. Last …
With occasionally unreliable autocorrect software and periodically clumsy fingers, typing on a virtual keyboard has never been easy. Take these issues and couple them with …
For the past several years, Cyanogen’s goal has been to create a better, more secure and more customizable version of Android with its third-party CyanogenMod …
The crowded cross-platform messaging space is about to get a bit more crowded. Industry watchers have repeatedly said that BlackBerry’s efforts to bring BBM to …
Whether or not you have something to hide, online privacy is an issue we can’t afford to ignore anymore in light of hackers running rampant …
By now you would think people tasked with testing unannounced smartphones would keep them pocketed while unwinding at a bar. Following in the footsteps of …
The cross-platform mobile messaging space has never been this crowded, but people still seem excited to check out BlackBerry’s upcoming entry. BBM for Android has …
Google is no stranger to shady shenanigans with Wi-Fi and Computerworld’s Michael Horowitz notes that the company can see the passwords of every single Wi-Fi network you’ve …
Yes, there are downsides to Google’s policy of letting anyone publish their apps on Google Play. Symantec has found that scammers published almost 1,000 fraudulent apps …
It’s no surprise that the messaging app behemoth WhatsApp generates 95 times as much Google search volume as BlackBerry Messenger. But what’s pretty fascinating is …
In case you thought your smartphone might be a last bastion of safety for your private information, it appears that the NSA has complete and …
Nokia has nothing to lose now that it is in the process of exiting the mobile phone space, and the company recently took to Twitter …
The quality of images captured with smartphone cameras improves dramatically with each new generation of devices. In fact, we’re getting to the point where photos …
In case you haven’t noticed, Android is a pretty popular mobile operating system. Google announced on Tuesday that it has now activated more than 1 …
Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One are easily two of the most highly anticipated launches of the year. Details continue to trickle out ahead …
It wasn’t a matter of if, but instead when BlackBerry would finally decide to decouple its BBM service from its own devices. Samsung has already …
Top Android executive Hugo Barra has confirmed that he has left Google to work at Xiaomi, an emerging Chinese Android smartphone vendor. The news was …
Despite some security improvements in recent releases, Android continues to have a major malware problem. The United States Department of Homeland Security has issued a …
With Apple getting ready to debut two new iPhones on September 10th, the question of how many upgrades it can coax out of its current …
Sony is doing its best to get smartphone enthusiasts excited about its next-generation “Honami” flagship phone despite the fact that most attention is turned toward …
Email was destroying my life, so I destroyed email. I crushed everything about it that I hated, leaving only what I absolutely needed. I tore …
LG is one of only a few outliers actually managing a small but consistent profit from selling Android smartphones, and the company is about to …
The long-term challenge that mobile apps present Nintendo keeps getting more formidable. The new joint study from IDC and App Annie shows how consumer spending …
