Vision Mobile regularly surveys developers on mobile development trends. The infographic shows developers’ opinions of programming in Android and iOS respectively. Here are some other key findings. According to the report, which is sponsored by AT&T, Mozilla, and Nokia, 72% of developers are now developing for the Android platform, a 4 percentage point increase compared [...]

Learn how to create amazing and engaging Mobile Gov User Experiences during our webinar on Wednesday, February 27 at 1 p.m. EST! Anytime, anywhere government will be used in numerous contexts and requires developers to think about more than just content, security and privacy during implementation. In fact, Smashing magazine has listed 12 elements to consider [...]

To provide news anytime, anywhere, the U.S. National Guard released the U.S. National Guard News app. Read the latest articles, view the newest pictures, and watch the latest Minuteman videos direct from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. Plus, you can share the latest Guard member news with your friends via email, Twitter, Facebook and more. [...]

Gigaom recently compared data from IDC on fourth quarter PC tablet and PC sales and found IDC estimates that 52.5 million tablets shipped in the final quarter of 2012. That compares to 89.8 million personal computers shipped during the same quarter… For tablets that’s more than half the number of PCs. Gigaom says this is based on [...]

Mobile World Live reports that there were a record 700 million smartphone shipments in 2012. While shipments in 2012 were 43 percent up on the 490.5 million shipped in 2011, the growth was below the 64 percent increase seen in the previous year. Does this mean that smartphone adoption growth has reached its peak? One [...]

Have a question about Mobile Gov? Want to help improve Mobile Gov efforts? This Thursday’s Mobile Gov Wikithon from 2-4 in downtown D.C. will offer you the chance to meet Mobile Gov innovators and get tips on mobile product ideation and improvements to your current and future mobile products. Our theme will be the same [...]

The Pointe du Hoc mobile app serves as a tour guide and learning tool for this World War II D-Day landing site in France. The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) developed both Android and iPhone versions, which take advantage of your smartphone’s GPS features to provide a walking tour of the battle site in Normandy and [...]

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 [...]