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Speedway GP 2012 Mudslides Its Way Onto Android & iOS

Say goodbye to brakes and gears and look forward to a motorbike racing experience like no other in what promises to be the “mostexhilaratingracing game on mobile devices.” Available today forAndroid and iOS, FIM Speedway GP 2012 from Vivid Games and BSI Speedwayis the only official sp...

Video: Why Bump should be on your smartphone now

When it debuted in 2009, I took a look at Bump, the mobile app for iOS that wirelessly transfers data between a pair iPhones. At the time, I thought it was ingenious, because it initiated the transfer with a simple bumping of the two phones. Later the software arrived for Android, allowing for cr...

Kayak Teams Up With Skyhook To Bring Reliable Location Services To Its Kindle Fire App

Amazon’s Kindle Fire is currently the most popular Android-powered tablet, but it doesn’t feature a GPS chip. Given how important location-based services have become, that’s a bit of a drawback for many developers and quite a few apps that want to access location features on Ama...

Halo Effect Makes Carriers Selling the iPhone More Attractive

iPhone halo effect improves public perception of mobile carriers Sprint took a gamble on the iPhone last fall. In exchange for getting the iPhone 4 and 4S on its network, the company agreed to pay $15 billion in subsidies over the next four years. The company acknowledged that it pays 40% more to...

iPad And Other Tablets Are Transforming Mobile Advertising

iPad growth offer advertisers new kinds of opportunities Lead by the iPad, tablets, and other non-phone devices accounted for 20% of mobile ads during the first quarter of 2012. That number is up 5% from the first quarter of last year. The increase reflects a change in the mix of mobile devices t...

Why I Still Use A Ten-Year Old Sony Ericsson P900 [Review]

The P900 Isn't so much big as fat -- seen here with an iPod Touch Take one look at my cellphone and you’ll either laugh at me, pity me or envy me. It’s a Sony Ericsson P900, a brick of a smartphone introduced in 2003, and I got it when my P800 was stolen from my bag in London’s ...

Absolute Manage Offers Integrated Mobile & Desktop Management And Deployment [Mobile Management Month]

Absolute Manage can be a single source option for mobile, desktop, and IT management May is Mobile Management Month at Cult of Mac,where we will be profiling a different mobile managementcompanyevery weekday. You can find all previous entrieshereand read our Mobile Management manifestohere. Absol...

iOS holds steady behind Android platform market share in Q1 2012

IDC released their quarterly report on worldwide smartphone market share by operating system today, and the chart looks more or less as you'd expect: Android has kept ballooning (59% market share), while iOS maintained a respectable second place (23%), while Symbian (6.8%) and BlackBerry (6.4%) ...

IDC: Android surges, opens gaping lead over Apple's iOS in global smartphone unit share

Smartphones powered by the Android and iOS mobile operating systems accounted for more than eight out of ten smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12). According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the mobile operating systems held s...

Google set to release 7-inch Android tablet

“Google’s 7-inch Android tablet is real - it’s even being passed around inside the Googleplex,” Jon Fortt reports for CNBC. “That’s what I’m hearing from Googlers who have seen the device The Google I/O developer conference on June 25 in San Francisco wou...