August 16, 2010

Mobile Dating

Lonely and living in London, then download StreetSpark on your mobile phone and start meeting new people while you are out and about. Whatever happened to good old fashioned online dating?

July 23, 2010

Nuance unveils Dragon Dictation iPhone app

Dragon Dictation for the iPhone is an app that lets you speak your emails, SMS messages or social network chatter. The company behind the speech-to-text app, Nuance Communications, recently acquired troubled SpinVox for a budget $102.5 million. Seven months on, we find out how they’re combining the two sets of technologies.

June 16, 2010

Android Serves an Ace

If you’re going to Wimbledon, the updated IBM Seer app for iPhone and Android mixes augmented reality, location-based video streams and real time data to offer you a more tech-enhanced tennis experience.

March 29, 2010

The Curious Case of Mobile Phone Cases

As iPhones, Blackberries and the various Androids become ubiquitous, us users are starting to look like sheep – all carrying around the same phones. So how does the modern mobilista stand apart from the flock? The mobile phone case, that’s how.

March 25, 2010

Bedroom Developers Beware!

Operating System fragmentation is usually thought to be a real bugbear in mobile – making it harder for developers to get product to market at reasonable cost. But for established players with deep pockets, like gaming specialist Electronic Arts, fragmentation has an upside. It raises barriers to entry for those pesky “bedroom developers”. In this video, I speak with EA Mobile about its plans to penetrate the mass market via smartphones.

December 21, 2009

Five Fun Mobile Accessories

In our last Press/Play of the year, I have chosen my five favorite mobile accessories for the holiday season. From stylish bluetooth headsets to 3D video sunglasses, this list is perfect for those in serious need of some last minute inspiration.

October 2, 2009

Price Wars: Fighting for Apple’s Affection

Tug of War

July 14, 2009

Purity & the iPhone

A purity app for the iPhone? How very Jonas Brothers.  A Christian iPhone App Development Agency is capitalizing on abstinence (yes you can make money from nothing) by launching a PurityRing iPhone App for 99 cents.

3 Apps on 3 Platforms

Mobile apps are the latest craze, so I went over to San Francisco’s Orange Labs last week to review three apps on three different operating systems. Clip2Mobile on iPhone, GeoMob on Android, & Last Inch on Windows Mobile.