We recently reported that competitions were not allowed on the Google+ social network. We thought this was a little strange as both Facebook and Twitter have a lot of competition activity and surely Google want to compete in attracting users this way. So Android (Google owned mobile operating system software) is holding a competition on [...]

There are rumors floating around that Google’s music service could be launching within the next 2 weeks. This will be a similar system to iTunes that Google are adding onto their free music store system at http://music.google.com – which currently lets users store up to 20,000 of their songs in the cloud for free. You [...]

I have been looking at a new mobile application called Tax Receipt Log. Tax Receipt log is a mobile application that will help you save time (and money) when it comes to your business expenses – we know how hard it is to keep hold of paper receipts! How does it work? The application allows [...]

Apple have just had their conference at its Cupertino, California campus. Many people have been awaiting the news of an all new iPhone 5. Apple is releasing a new model iPhone, but it will be an iPhone 4S. The iPhone 4S will have some new features over the regular 4G model, such as: – new [...]

On Saturday 17th of September was the 20th Birthday for Linux kernel, where version 0.01 was released. You may not be aware but a huge amount of websites today run on a Linux operating system. In September 1991 the first Linux kernel was released to the public by Linus Torvalds. The original kernel had about [...]

Commonwealth Bank has updated their mobile platform, with the iPhone, Android and Windows 7 Phone all getting updates to their native applications. CommBank has also released a new application specifically for the iPad. Their new iPhone app has plenty of upgraded features and offers an interactive tour for users if they wish to see the [...]

I was having a look today at the mobile browser market shares in Australia over the past month (June-July 2011). This is basically showing the popularity of the mobile phones most used for mobile internet surfing. We wrote about Mobile Browser Market shares for Australia in May if you want to check previous figures. The [...]

I was having a look today at the market shares for the various Mobile Browsers being used in Australia. The results are interesting, although somewhat fairly expected in my opinion. The iPhone (and iPod touch lead the way with a huge market share). This simply equates to such a easy to use and inviting interface, [...]

Facebook has just released an update of their iOS application (version 3.4) into the Apple App Store. There are several updates to the app worth noting: – You can now ‘unfriend’ people via your iPhone app – Facebook places now has an upgraded Map view – Users are now able to check into ‘events’ rather [...]

BlackBerry has just announced that version 2.0 of the BlackBerry Facebook application is now available. This is a siginificant step forward as the previous version was missing some key features according to user reports. The new layout is much close in terms of functionality to what iOS and Android apps have. New features include: – [...]

With the deal a day market becoming increasingly competitive over the past couple months, Google trying to buy GroupOn in the US, Yahoo Australia buying spreets.com.au for $40 million AUD – Facebook is now getting in on the action with their own deals service through their mobile check-in platform. If you use a Facebook mobile [...]

Google is now probably the largest internet company in the world. With this comes a huge amount of data and wide range of Google service APIs – allowing developers all around the world to build applications and services using Google’s platforms. Trying to understand how they all interrelate, and just finding out the total number [...]

WordPress has released a Nokia application now available in the Ovi-Store. This is good news for Nokia WordPress users as they are now able to manage their blogs on the go. Whilst using WordPress on mobile devices will always limit functionality – they do provide a smart and quick way to manage comments/ spam etc. [...]

In 2010 more handsets with Google Android were sold that any other Operating System handset. Windows 7 is now crowding the market even more and already receiving good reviews. Have a look at this infograph put together by cellphones.org showing an overview of how the Google Android operating system has gone to date. Infograph source: [...]

Have a look at this interesting infograph on how popular the iPhone is compared To Android, BlackBerry, Nokia. Please note the stats are for the US but still very much useful to note. There have been some real movement in smart phone market shares over the past 2-3 years and this no doubt will continue. [...]

StumbleUpon has launched iPhone and Android Applications so users are now able to ‘stumble’ content for them mobile devices. The application lets you: – Easily explore pages in your favorite topics and on top sites (Flickr, YouTube, Photos, News). – The pages you bookmark from your phone are automatically synced with your StumbleUpon account on [...]