Software, Mobile | featured news

Microsoft releases its first mobile application for phones running the Android operating system from rival Google.

High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's biggest maker of Windows Mobile and Google Android OS smartphones, is working on technologies for applications used in handsets and application stores and plans to put this software ...

The world's largest mobile phone carriers say they're joining forces to make it easier for software developers to write apps that will run on as many phones as possible....

Microsoft plans to introduce long-awaited new software for powering mobile phones, as the company seeks to regain a technology edge in the market.

Opera just announced that it plans to bring its mobile browser, Opera Mini, to the iPhone. The Norwegian company will give the press and its partners a sneak peek of the application during next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Opera Mini on the iPhone will include all of Opera's default features like Speed Dial, tabs and a password manager.

In November 2009, Apple launched a feature dubbed iTunes Preview, which essentially enabled people to see what music is available on iTunes from their Web browser without the need to fire up – or install – the desktop software program.

Creating a self-branded iPhone or Android app just got a lot more accessible.

MWC is a few weeks away - it starts on February 15 - and we're expecting to see a new version of Windows Mobile, version 7, to be launched with hardware soon to follow. We've heard some rumors about potential improvements over the current 6.x codebase, but a developer has told us that this new version is so distant from the old WinMo that it is almost unrecognizable. The worst part?

The growth of cell phones with global-positioning technology is making life uncertain for the makers of personal navigational devices that help drivers figure out where they are and where to go....

Mobile advertising company AdMob (which was just acquired by Google) has just released its mobile metrics report for October 2009.