In today’s Reel Rebel episode, Stephen walks through a quick look at Viddy, one of the leading mobile video apps for recording, editing, uploading, and sharing “micro-videos” from your smartphone Android, iOS, or Windows mobile device.
In short, by using a 3.99-inch 9:5 screen, iOS would scale nearly perfectly and add an additional row for icons on the homescreen. There is a new report published nearly every other day proclaiming iOS or Android as the…
After all, the top 25 is probably the single most important app discovery mechanism for most iOS users. Given the popularity of games on iOS, Distimo also took a closer look at the various gaming subcategories.
The SDK (software development kit), is available now for iOS, but an Android version is coming soon, the company says. While Card.io started with SDKs for iOS and Android, then moved into web support for e-commerce…
Contrast that to the biggest iOS acquisition to date, which is Instagram, or Zynga, the most successful Facebook platform company to date. Is the Twitter platform about to get a second wind of dedicated apps?
Nielsen’s app figures seem to point to a similar trend: Android and iOS owners accounted for 88 percent of all apps that were downloaded in the past 30 days, it says (up from 74 percent last year). That may partly be to do with their own market…
Fotopedia is quickly building a reputation for producing beautiful travel-focused photo apps for iOS. Today, the company is launching its latest free app, which focuses on Morocco. The app is optimized for the new iPad’s retina display and, as…
Sweden’s iZettle, which often gets compared to Square, is now doing just that: today it is launching its iOS, dongle-based mobile payment service to the UK, four months after its pan-nordic live launch, and as it is preparing to launch an Android…
Cloud-based telephony API startup Twilio has made significant inroads into VoIP and other carrier services like SMS by launching products that work on the web and in iOS apps, supporting 30,000 developers in the process.
This is super-useful in light of the explosive growth that apps like SocialCam and Viddy are seeing on Facebook and iOS. With the new mobile platform, Facebook is now able to single-handedly drive apps to the top of the free charts on
The Japanese version, audio integrations and voiceover controls are all rolling out tonight on iOS. Social magazine Flipboard may have to think up a new tagline for itself, as tonight the company is rolling out an update which greatly expands its…
It’s one of those pre-smartphone era companies that is crossing over into an iOS-Android ruled world with a host of feature phone users around the world. They say if you want to understand the future, you have to look at children.
Facebook has a reputation as being home to some of Silicon Valley's top engineers, but a post looking at how Facebook's iOS app has been built raises questions about the social network's mobile chops.
Smule has been churning out scores of popular music-making iOS apps for years now, but they’ve been notoriously gun-shy about bringing those apps to other platforms. The iOS version peaked at #1 on Apple’s Top Free Apps…
And while that device is designed on a “forked” version of Android — forked Android devices being very popular in China — Baidu says that it doesn’t want to stop there: the idea is to take its platform, the Baidu Cloud Smart Terminal, to other…
Last month, mobile marketing company Velti reported that iOS had pulled slightly of Android in mobile ad impressions, after being tied at the end of last year. Now, apparently, iOS has taken widened that lead, if not by…
The even worse news: Grebennikov believes that malware targeting iOS, the operating system that powers the iPhone and iPad, could be right around the corner. And as Grebennikov sees it, there's no way Apple will be able to defeat
This new platform delivers premium video and ad content consistently across all major platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android, desktop operating systems and connected TVs. Simultaneously, but sold separately is the announcement that the…
Facebook software engineer Aaron Brady made the announcement via the company’s blog, explaining that: “In the coming weeks, people will be able to access the App Center on the web and in the iOS and Android Facebook apps”.
On the surface, Shoptown Hero looks like many of the casual sim games that were popular in early 2011 on iOS. Zynga has picked up the team behind Wild Needle, a female-focused casual games company that was backed by Playdom co-founder Rick Thompson.