Need a last minute Valentine’s Day gift idea? We’ve put together some last minute anytime, anywhere government Valentine’s ideas for your special someone. Need a card? Send a Valentine’s greeting and a handy health tip (like the one pictured) with CDC’s Mobile Health e-card App! Want to dazzle,  but your bank account’s not cooperating? Introduce them to some to the [...]

The National Severe Storms Laboratory mobilized their “Precipitation Identification Near the Ground” project (PING) so you can help them collect weather data anytime, anywhere. Are snowflakes fallin’ on your head? Are you getting pinged by hail? Tell us where you are and what is hitting the ground. NSSL scientists will compare your report with what the radar has [...]

Last week Rimm-Kaufman Group published its new Digital Marketing Report (free download with your email address), which covers the fourth quarter of 2012. They found a staggering increase in the use of mobile search. Specific findings include: Nearly 20% of organic search and direct visits were mobile in Q4. iPad delivered 7.3% of visits, followed [...]

The 57th Presidential Inaugural Committee has developed a mobile app for this year’s inauguration. The app is available on both the iOS and Android platforms for people attending inaugural events in Washington, those who want to participate in the National Day of Service anywhere in the US, and anybody, anywhere who wants to tap into [...]

Comscore recently released data regarding the latest numbers on smartphone platform adoption. Agencies should monitor these statistics as they implement mobile services as required by the Digital Government Strategy and create anytime, anywhere government. More than 114 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in July, up 7 percent versus April. [...]

The Smokey Bear App shows you how to safely build campfires and other camping saftey tips from anywhere and any device. Produced by the U.S. Forest Service, the app is available on the iOS and Android platforms. It is also accessibile via mobile website.  According to the Forest Service: Get Your Smokey On. With Smokey [...]

The Mobile Platform Development Webinar Series will continue with Apple iOS on Wednesday at 2 p.m. EST. Before the session, we wanted to share some highlights from the first two sessions presented by Research in Motion(RIM)/Blackberry and Windows Phone. The series was developed to help government agencies learn how to deliver government content–information, data and services–anytime, [...]

NASA released the Visualization Explorer App to allow users to receive weekly cutting edge stories and video about NASA’s fleet of research spacecraft via tablet. Visualization Explorer is one of a number of mobile products that were implemented as part of NASA’s mobile strategy. This app, which is available only on the iPad, allows: This [...]