• Samsung launches $800,000 app contest for Galaxy S4

  By Jay Alabaster | 20 May, 2013 05:39

  Samsung will host a US$800,000 contest for developers that build apps for the Galaxy S4 using the company's peer-to-peer software interface.

• Samsung launches $US800,000 app contest for Galaxy S4

  By Jay Alabaster | 20 May, 2013 05:39

  Samsung will host a $US800,000 contest for developers that build apps for the Galaxy S4 using the company's peer-to-peer software interface.

• At Google I/O, developer services hogged the spotlight

  By Zach Miners | 17 May, 2013 23:37

  Forget Glass, self-driving cars or a smartwatch. Developers, not physical consumer products, were Google's darlings at the company's annual I/O conference this week.

• Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr try out social networking apps for Glass

  By Zach Miners | 16 May, 2013 19:25

  While Google promotes its Glass head-mounted display as a new way for people to receive and document information on the fly, several social networking companies including Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr now want a piece of the action, by offering social applications on the device.

• CIOs struggle to deliver timely mobile business apps: survey

  By Rebecca Merrett | 16 May, 2013 11:57

  CIOs are not delivering on mobile business apps as fast as they could be, according to a global survey conducted by IT market research firm Vanson Bourne.

• Control your TV with your smartphone, tablet

  By Nick Barber | 22 January, 2013 18:49

  Using your smartphone or tablet to control your Tivo box is easy and offers a lot of flexibility in recording shows and channel surfing.

• Google woos developers as software becomes more important

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 17 May, 2013 15:43

  Google did its best to court developers at this year's I/O conference with a much-needed integrated developer environment, API for better games and the ability to more easily translate apps. Their allegiance will become increasingly important as smartphone and tablet hardware sees fewer dramatic improvements.

• ARM's big.LITTLE processors and 1080p screens await smartphone buyers in 2013

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 December, 2012 20:51

  Smartphone vendors will rely on upgrades such as full-HD screens and more powerful yet more frugal processors to entice customers to buy new phones in 2013.

• RIM still has fans among developers and administrators

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 23 October, 2012 17:38

  Research In Motion continues to struggle as it works to finish the BlackBerry 10 operating system, but the audience at the London edition of the BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour developer event still thinks the company can play an important role in the enterprise.

• Stupid mobile tricks: 7 stories of smartphone horror

  By JR Raphael | 06 August, 2010 07:52

  For a device with "smart" in its name, a smartphone sure can help you do a lot of stupid things. Whether it's racking up thousands of dollars in international roaming fees or encouraging dozens of eye rolls with your misrouted voice dialing -- I'm looking at you, guy who calls Ben O'Lynn in accounting every time he means to call Bennigan's for lunch -- our modern-day mobile devices provide plenty of opportunities for tech-tinged embarrassment.

• BlackBerry (Finally) Gets 'Official' Craigslist Mobile App

  By Al Sacco | 10 February, 2010 06:52

  BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has finally decided to give its blessing to the "official" craigslist mobile app for BlackBerry smartphones.

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