The deadline for filing your taxes is days away, at best. We’ve found Android and iPhone apps for estimating taxes, checking on refunds, filing your taxes, and answering your many questions. Continue reading
Brands and businesses should do whatever it takes to optimize their videos for iOS and Android devices because consumers are increasingly watching product videos on their handhelds. Continue reading
A British psychologist created an iPhone app to help people manipulate their dreams by playing pleasant “soundscapes” during slumber. Continue reading
Developers of mobile-gaming applications have several choices in how they get revenues from their apps, this analysis notes. They can choose from one or more of the options, which include in-app purchases and virtual goods, mobile advertising, paid apps and sponsorships. Continue reading
When free phones and promises of prime real estate on the Windows Phone app store wasn’t enough to get reluctant developers to write software for the Windows Mobile Phones Microsoft reportedly starting writing checks to cover some of the app development cost which can run anywhere from $60,000 to $600,000. Continue reading
Last year, Microsoft hosted more than 850 sessions world-wide to coach developers on Windows Phone software design, more than triple the number the year before. Microsoft also has sped up the process of launching apps, expanded ways app makers can make money from selling their wares on Windows Phone and cut checks to some developers to help pay for apps. Continue reading
This week brought tons of great new apps. From a long-distance relationship app, to a new app for storing your sketches, notes and other thoughts and sharing them on the web — there was plenty of new app action in the past seven days to download on your favorite smartphone or tablet. Continue reading
Retina display is brilliant. Especially when interacting with a lot of text — keeping up with Twitter or Facebook, reading e-books, checking email, browsing the Web — my appreciation for the increased pixel density grows the more I use it. Really, get to an Apple Store and spend some time with one to see for yourself. Continue reading
If you’re armed with the right photo apps, editing tricks and shooting know-how, it just might be Continue reading
oogle Inc., GOOG -1.12% undaunted by a short-lived attempt to market and sell smartphones on its own, is now trying the approach with tablet computers in a quest to capture market share from Apple Inc.’s AAPL -1.26% iPad. Continue reading