Get dynamic with php application development and save money!

Look around the web and try to find out websites that are only meant to display static information. Of course, there are very few of them. Even individual bloggers who were thin on technical prowess before are now able to get all the functionalities from blogger and wordpress to manage comments, play slideshows, feature banners etc. In short they are more dynamic they have ever been and the same must be implemented with professional websites as well. As professional websites become more like exchange points and sales centres, the demand for PHP application developers are seeing a new high. PHP application development is a major element in creating custom php web applications that powers numerous dynamic websites. Why PHP for dynamic websites- Simple,...

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Windows Phone app development to Benefit due to apple’s Monotony

The feature rich windows phone is likely to see more activity from windows app developers. Read why? Windows Phone app development is likely to see a boom in the coming times. The windows app market has 80000+ apps and adding more each day with lightning speed. The store is also getting organized day by day and giving better app suggestions to its users. Windows phone 7 developers have churned out a good deal of money with applications like shuriken ninja and top truck and are making more applications for the growing windows platform. Let us see why windows will expand in the coming years:- Nokia handsets packed with Windows phone OS are worth a compliment Combined with the award winning Nokia Lumia 900 and other nokia phones, Windows mobile 8 has proved itself as a smart buy...

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Mobile Apps Drain Battery Because of Free Ads

Recently, we talked about how there are security risks associated with some mobile apps, not because of the app itself, but because of the ad module that runs within free apps to generate revenue. Now, we find that these same modules are also the biggest battery users in an otherwise efficient app. When I switched from a Blackberry to an iPhone, two things immediately irked me: lack of a raised QWERTY keyboard; and lousy battery life. Soon, friends clued me in to the fact that GPS and 3G were the biggest drains on my battery. So I learned how to better manage my location services, and how to get on Wi-Fi whenever possible. That, and how to carry a cord with me everywhere and plug in anytime I am not walking. These two principles...

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Wikipedia’s Mobile Apps Drop Google Maps for OpenStreetMap

In the world of online mapping, it feels like things aren’t quite going in Google’s direction these days: Apple switched away from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap when it launched iPhoto for iOS. Foursquare, too, announced a similar switch just a few weeks ago and today, Wikipedia switched to OpenStreetMap in the latest versions of its iOS and Android apps. As our own Josh Constine wrote last month, Google’s plan to charge high-volume users for access to its Maps APIs could backfire and this most recent defection is yet another clear signal that we will probably see quite a few more of these moves in the near future. While OpenStreetMap’s data wasn’t quite ready for prime time not too long ago, the service has greatly improved...

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Mobile app downloads to pass 66bn by 2016

Up from 31bn in 2011. The hunger for consumer apps will reach its highest point in 2016 when downloads will pass 66 billion, more than doubling the 31 billion downloads in 2011, according to Juniper research. Meanwhile, 87 per cent of downloads will be free apps, though developers are set to profit post-download from in-app purchases and subscriptions. Smartphones will continue to occupy the majority of the app market, though almost one in four downloads will be made via tablet. Dr Windsor Holden, report author, said: "Consumers are now demanding 24/7 access to services –  retail, financial, information, entertainment – wherever they are. "As a result, brands that wish to remain competitive have turned to apps as part of a...

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Path Adds Fresh Security Features to Mobile App

Path, which drew criticism in February over privacy breaches, upgraded the security for its mobile app on Monday. The iOS and Android upgrade to 3.1.1, announced on Path’s blog, includes the hashing of user contact data so such information will be unintelligible to hackers, at least in theory. Such data, includes last names, phone numbers, email addresses, Twitter handles and Facebook IDs. Path, a social network that limits users’ networks to 50 people, initiated the new security features after a developer in February revealed that the Mac OS X version of the mobile app was sending users’ entire address book to Path’s servers without telling users. The revelation prompted Path CEO Dave Morin to issue an apology a few days later. Later...

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Windows Phone Passes 80,000 Mobile Applications

In the week before AT&T brings the Nokia Lumia 900 and HTC Titan 2 to the American public, and with them the next concerted push by Microsoft to get Windows Phone into the smartphone space, the plucky young mobile operating system passed another statistical market, with more than 80,000 application submissions to the Windows Marketplace (reports All About Windows Phone). "Both the 80,000 apps and 20,000 publishers milestones, together with their respective growth rates, suggest the Windows Phone Marketplace is enjoying sustained and accelerating growth. It is now comfortably the third biggest mobile app ecosystem, behind Android (450,000+) and iOS (550,000+), but some way ahead of Blackberry (70,000) and Symbian (70,000)." As...

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