Incremental Improvements Define The 2012 Mobile World Congress |
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Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The usual players all showed up at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with lots of improved devices, but no real game-changing breakthroughs... |
New Applications
GPS App For Mobile Workers Goes Android
Now available for Android, Descartes Systems Group’s MobileLink enables dynamic dispatching and tracking of drivers and other resources in the field....
Indoor Positioning System Exploits Automatic Crowd Sourcing
Sensewhere core positioning software automatically crowd-sources and cross-references RF-access-point data via the user’s own device....
iPad/iPhone App Hoists .NET Into The Cloud
Tatsoft unveils the first iPad and iPhone mobile data-access client app that integrates with Microsoft’s .NET Framework with in-the-loud support....
Software Suite Provides Lifecycle View Of Mobile Apps
App47’s Version 1.0 software suite debuts as the only enterprise-grade mobile app deployment, management, and analysis solution for optimizing mobile-workforce user experience....
Smart-Phone Platform Now Supports HTML5 And Windows Phone 7 Apps
The Worklight 4.1 HTML5 native and hybrid platform for smart-phone and tablet apps now allows users to build, run, and manage HTML5 mobile Web apps without the need for proprietary interpreters....
App Ensures Mobile Device Integrity, Provides Full Mobile Management
Fixmo Sentinel 4.0 ensures mobile device integrity while delivering comprehensive multi-platform infrastructure management. The app manages the integrity of mobile devices to ensure they start and stay in known and trusted states....
OKI Unveils MoBiz Platform Ver. 1.1 for Developing Business Applications for Android Devices
"MoBiz Platform Ver.1.1 for Android" will allow developers to create business applications quickly and easily for Android smart phones and tablets....
Mobile Data Offload App Enlists Better Ecosystem
Enhancements to Stoke’s Mobile Data Offload (MDO) application plus a new ecosystem foresee operators improving mobile data service delivery efficiencies, enabling a set of core-bound applications to be deployed with greater effectiveness at the edge of the radio access network...
Camera Platform Simplifies Home Monitoring Via Smart Phone
Maxim’s camera platform enables home-monitoring applications from a downloadable smart-phone app. Images are viewable over the Internet with a smart-phone browser or the downloadable app...
Mobility, Connectivity Drive 2011 International CES
It’s all about staying connected on the go—at least, that’s the major theme that emerged at the 2011 International CES...
App Development Platform Enables Combined Language Coding
WorkLight Mobile Platform Version 4.0 enables the development of smart-phone and tablet apps using a combined coding of native and Web languages in the same application...
W3C Issues Best Practices For Mobile Apps
Published as a W3C Recommendation, Mobile Web Application Best Practices offers practical advice from many mobile Web stakeholders for the easy development and the deployment of mobile Web applications that work across many platforms...
iConcessionStand Takes $100,000 PayPal Prize
Offering a new way to shop and pay for products on mobile devices at live events, iConcessionStand took the $100,000 grand prize in the PayPal X Developer Challenge...
Contest Entices App Developers With $10 Million In Prizes
Nokia and AT&T are sponsoring a contest for app developers with $10 million in cash and prizes...
Connected Services Enhance The Smart-Phone Experience
HTC Sense offers a number of unique connected services that promise to enhance the HTC mobile-phone experience and improve how users capture, create, share, and access multimedia content...
