Facebook Chat Heads Hit IOS Later Today
Facebook CTO Cory Ondrejka announced at the D: Dive into Mobile conference that chat heads would be arriving on the Facebook iOS app later today. Chat heads is a Facebook Home feature where instead of receiving a simple text notification about a new Facebook message you instead see a bubble with the head of the person […]
Mobile Web Access Speeds Increased By 30% Over Last Year Says Google
Mobile browsing got significantly faster over the year says a new report from Google. The report shows the average page load times on mobile are now comparable to desktop times. Mobile web pages are now loading about 30 percent faster than a year ago but with desktops Google only found some very minor speed-ups. The statistics are based on […]
FaceTime & iMessage Hit By Outages
Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime services saw their second outage this week today as both services were unavailable to some users. The System Status Page shows the second outage this week around 8am PDT for about an hour. As iPhone app developers we are glued to our iPhones and noticed the iMessages were not flowing properly this morning. The downtime marked a […]
IOS7 To Reveal Killer App Say Analysts
According to forecasts by Morgan Stanley’s analyst Katy Huberty Apple may introduce a true mobile wallet in IOS7 this summer. Dubbed a “killer app” by the analyst it is exepcted to preview preview at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Apple introduced Passbook in IOS6 which allows for gift vouchers and the like to […]
Hacker Claims Remote Hijack Of Airplanes Using Android App
A security consultant who is also a trained commercial pilot has developed an Android app that he claims can take over flight management systems. The hack was demoed at the “Hack In The Box” conference in Amsterdam. Hugo Teso showed how the app called PlaneSploit can locate targets on the ground by infiltrating radio broadcasts between aircraft and air traffic control. The system then […]
Apple Clamping Down On App Discovery Apps
App discovery company AppGratis is pulled from the App store. Mobile app developers in an uproar over vague guidelines and unfair app store practices.
Will iPhone 5S have Multiple Screen Sizes? Developers Hope NOT
The upcoming iPhone 5S will have a choice of screen size according to Topeka analyst Brian White. After a meeting with a tech-supply chain company White believes Apple will unveil the iPhone 5S in at least 2 or possibly 3 different screen sizes. “We believe Apple is coming around to the fact that one size per iPhone […]
Apple Still Leading The App Charge
As an iPhone app developer in Los Angeles we were interested to see the report released today showing Apple’s App Store and Goole Play continuing to set the pace for the overall sales performance while BlackBerry and Microsoft’s Windows Phone remain distant challengers. App sales climbed by 11% in Q1 2013 worldwide with combined downloads from the stores totally more than $13.4 […]
Facebook Topping On Ice Cream Sandwich
Yesterday Facebook announced a family of Android-based smartphone apps which is to be called Facebook Home. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced “We’re going to talk about how you can transform your Android phone into a great social phone” Facebook Home will be available on April 12 on certain phones which run the Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean versions of the Android […]
SFO Serves Cease-And-Desist Ride Sharing Companies
InstantCab, a San Francisco iPhone app development firm which uses cab drivers and vetted individuals to provide taxi services announced that it had received a partial cease-and-desist letter from SFO. It also appears that other new transportation startups have also received the same notice last month. It was reported that SideCar confirmed that it received a cease-and-desist letter in […]