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While mobile gaming is a thriving business, discovering cool new titles is everything but easy for consumers. To understand the current mobile game discovery landscape better, Applifier surveyed 1800 mobile gamers in March 2013 and the results are here: 70% of all users watched online games video in the last 7 days and over 45%…
Social networking is booming among smartphone users. In fact, pretty much every smartphone user out there is using his/her device to stay in touch with friends on Facebook, Twitter and/or other social networks. Viral Heat prepared a neat infographic to illustrate social on smartphones. Here are the highlights: 1 billion smartphones will be shipped this…
BlackBerry users don’t like Netflix and their policy to keep its mobile client out of the Canadian company’s new platform. Few unofficial apps found their way to the BlackBerry World, but were promptly pulled after the video streaming/rental service complained. To make things worse, Netflix has iterated that it won’t support BlackBerry 10 because its…
Another week and another batch of apps has been submitted at Appscovery, our mobile app portal. Here are apps and games that we think are worth checking out: Privacy Manager non-root to control your app permissions Unleash the Ottoman wrath! Oriental Wars: Zombies! is here Space Dots Extreme – A Line Puzzle And Logic Game…
Canadian Telus has teamed-up with Apperian to launch a new Mobile Application Management (MAM) service designed to help its enterprise customers protect and manage their corporate mobile apps and data when employees use their own wireless devices at work. Mobile application management provides companies with the ability to secure, manage and publish corporate apps on…
The upcoming Tizen app store has been demoed at the Tizen Developer Conference. At first glance, it looks like any similar service out there, but there’s one catch – it has a special section entirely dedicated to discounted apps. As you would imagine, the fact that such section exists will undoubtedly push users into check…
The first Tizen-based smartphone could be launched soon with Blinkx preparing itself as one of the first companies to support the nascent platform. Promoted by the Linux Foundation and led by Intel and Samsung, Tizen may emerge as a viable alternative to Android, with the first Tizen-based smartphone made by the Korean giant launching by…
Truphone proudly announced its industry first shared international mobile service plans for data, text and voice. The new plans allow businesses with employees based abroad and with employees traveling internationally to share local minutes, messages and megabytes from a single bundle when in the so called “Truphone Zone.” The mentioned “Zone” includes the US, UK,…
Again and again, we see a number of great apps submitted at our mobile app portal, Appscovery. Here are the titles you should check out this time: OSS Sampler Chooz Who – How Well Do You REALLY Know Your Friends? Morphball available on Google Play Weather Pod For iPhone : Weather Intelligence Made Beautiful Calendar…
A company called Appriss introduced a mobile version of its automated victim notification service known as VINE (Victim Information and Notification Everyday). This service is used by victims of crime across the U.S. and monitors over 95% of the nation’s incarcerated offenders. Available for iPhone and Android devices, the VINE mobile app allows people who…