USDA’s National Cooperative Soil Survey is an effort of Federal and State agencies, universities, and professional societies to deliver science-based soil information for the entire United States. The SoilWeb app is a portable version of the USDA’s online interface to USDA-NRCS digital soil survey data. The app is available on both the Android and iPhone [...]

Recent data from the Department of Labor website shows that mobile device use and mobile device traffic are trending up. As we posted last Tuesday, globally mobile device usage leaped from 2% to 8% in June 2010 to 10% in May 2012, according to data from KPCB. How does this translate at the U.S. Department of Labor? [...]

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Agencies can look at what people are currently doing on mobile to help with their own mobile services investment decisions. comScore released their 2012  Mobile Future in Focus Report with data on popular apps. A few ideas to take away. People like to be entertained. On both platforms games and video watching are popular. People [...]

This holiday season saw another mobile milestone reached. A record 1.2 billion apps were downloaded by iPhone and Android owners last week. According to mobile analytics firm Flurry, 20 million iOS and Android devices were activated between December 25th and December 31, 2011. A record-breaking 6.8 million iOS and Android devices were activated on Christmas Day alone. [...]

New on the apps gallery on USA.GOV: Quit Guide from National Cancer Institute: An iPhone app to help you prepare to quit smoking and support you in the days and weeks after you quit. Recovery.Gov App from the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board provides easy access to the projects funded by the American Recovery and [...]