Yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft and RIM will be partnering to integrate Bing’s Search and map applications into RIM devices. At the Blackberry World Expo, Ballmer said, “We’re going to invest uniquely into the BlackBerry platform.” As a Blackberry fan, I’m wondering if this will help save my beloved devices. Once king of the smartphone market, will this partnership help regain or boost their marketshare? Nielsen’s latest survey (Jan 2011-March 2011) on… Read more »

As mobile developers, part of our job is to offer insight into the mobile landscape and share articles, viewpoints, and recent findings about app development. Forrester’s Mike Gualtieri’s latest report provides an uncommon look at mobile app development. He discusses design, with an emphasis on user engagement, user experience, and keys to creating a mobile app that’s useful, usable, and desirable. Gualtieri stresses that making an app desirable and usable means taking into account the… Read more »

PointAbout’s CEO Daniel Odio sat down for an interview with the good people at IdeaMensch recently, following in the footsteps of visionaries like Craig Newmark, Seth Godin, and Gary Vaynerchuk. The interview covers Daniel’s interests and inspirations, AppMakr’s explosive growth, mobile trends that excite him, and some of the shared values that make AppMakr a great place to work.

According to the included article in ReadWrite Mobile, just two years ago the average number of apps on a smartphone was 10. We know why there are 7 numbers in a phone number, 9 in a social security number and so on. It’s what we can handle. The psychologist George Miller wrote a famous article about the Magic Number 7, establishing that this number, plus or minus 2, is the number of things we are generally… Read more »