In an interesting move that has been rolled out today – BlackBerry users on Telstra no longer have to setup payment details with Research In Motion (RIM) for purchasing games and applications in the BlackBerry App World. Instead BlackBerry users can get all their app purchases added directly onto their monthly Telstra bill. This is [...]

One thing I really like about iOS5 is the Messages (or iMessage application as it’s known). Very similar to Blackberry Messenger this is a free messaging service between iOS5 devices. To me this application has a great feel, will be useful for networking and a nice way to chat with people in an informal manner [...]

If you have a compatible iPhone or iPad – iOS5 is now here and available for download. What’s so good about the new mobile operating system from Apple? 1. New notifications feature 2. Built in Twitter integration 3. iMessage (similar to Blackberry messenger). 4. Built in Photo editing 5. Newsstand, subscription model for ebook publishers [...]

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 [...]

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: – [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

Many have commented that the iPad will only be good for the consumer market and that the device lacks the corporate and enterprise features to become a truly useful business tool. However it seems Apple is hard at work on releasing the new Operating System for the iPad. In November Apple will release iOS 4.2 [...]

It has been a little over 2 years since Apple launched the AppStore. The store now has over 250,000 applications from around 50,000 developers. Books and Games are the 2 most popular categories, with about 30% market share combined. Around 30% of the apps are free, 70% are paid-for applications. In comparison, the Android Marketplace [...]

WordPress has released version 1.3 of their BlackBerry application into the BlackBerry App World. New features have been added in version 1.3, which are: – Option to load more than 100 comments – Option to load comments by status (all/spam/pendings) – You can edit the comment details (Author Name/email/URL address) – Allow you to manually [...]

A new social Geolocation mobile app has launched – Loopt. Similar to Gowalla and Foursquare, Loopt is more social in that it lets you chat and interact with users around you. Currently the app is available on the iPhone. To download the App goto: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/loopt/id281952554 The app is also available on the iPad and is [...]

Gowalla has just released version 2.2 of their iPhone application. There are a number of improvements to v2.2 such as: – high resolution for iPhone 4 – updated Featured Spots, Pins, and Items – multitasking support – misc bug fixes and stability improvements – syncing with iPhone contact list – easy connect to your Twitter [...]

Its interesting to look at all the mobile smartphone Application stores and see the percentage of paid apps to free apps. A recent report by Distimo has found that more than half of all paid applications are about $2 of less. BlackBerry is however the exception as they do not allow application less than $2.99. [...]