Erik Schwartz
Android Shipping 60,000 Handsets per Day
MobileCrunch reports Android continues to grow quickly. Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) at Barcelona Mobile World Congress just disclosed an interesting fact: Google and their hardware partners are now shipping 60,000 Android handsets each day. That works out to about 22 million handsets a year.
Flash Coming to Android and Palm Before Q3
Adobe Flash 10.1 will be debuting on Android and palm smartphones in Q1 or Q2 of 2010. This opens up mobile development to the broad audience of Flash developers. What is noticeable by its absence in this announcement is any mention of the Flex development kit.
WordPress app for Android now available
Automattic has released an open source WordPress app for Android. The real advantage of this implementation is since it is open source, it is extensible and customizable so organizations like news providers can customize it for their own needs.
RunRev moves into mobile space with revMobile
RunRev is a flexible, cross-platform development environment (OSX, Windows, Linux) for building both web applications and customized desktop applications. It is basically a high level authoring environment in the tradition of Hypercard and Supercard, but with all the enhancements one would expect from a modern development tool. Last week RunRev announced that they were moving [...]
Chrome browser rising in popularity
Google’s Chrome browser is up to 5% market penetration and is growing fast. It recently passed Apple Safari as the number 3 browser behind Internet Explorer and Firefox. I have been testing it for the last few months and I have found it rock solid.
The Revolution You’ve Been Waiting For?
There are plenty of iPad reviews around and I won’t be adding to the din. I want to focus not on the functionality of the device itself, but what the iPad might mean to the traditional media business. For the past few weeks, as the hype built, there has been increasing chatter that this device [...]
Google Voice on the iPhone (Finally)
The ongoing saga of Apple denying Google permission to run Google Voice as a native app on the iPhone has come to an end. No, Apple didn’t cave to the pressure. Google did an end run around the impenetrable Apple iPhone application approval process. Google created a mobile web application version of Google Voice that runs in the [...]
