Geographically speaking, who do you think uses the mobile web the most? North America? How about Europe? Surprisingly, with all of the chatter about Android, Windows Phone 7, RIM’s Blackberry, and Apple’s iPhone here in the U.S., Asia and Africa have the highest share of mobile web usage. In October 2010, StatCounter compiled data showing North America coming in third (a 4.71% share) and Europe coming in fifth (a 1.81% share). Many countries do not have access… Read more »

A recently released study on the new platforms mobile developers plan to support in 2011 puts on full display the increasing fragmentation of the smartphone market. Millennial Media, a Baltimore-based ad network, teamed with Digiday and an analyst from Stifel Nicolaus to survey app developers, publishers, and advertisers about their outlook on development practices for 2011. When asked which new platforms they planned to develop on in 2011: 29% of publishers said Android 20% of… Read more »

PointAbout’s Kevin Lenane and Derek Tiffany sat with Zhiming Xue (“Z”) of Channel 9 to discuss the app configuration tool PointAbout is developing for the Windows Phone 7 platform. The tool is based on AppMakr, a free, web-based DIY app builder that is currently only available for the iPhone platform. Non-developers will essentially have the ability to generate and deploy (via Microsoft Marketplace) Windows Phone 7 applications with ease, using images, RSS feeds, and other… Read more »

Apps, apps here, apps there, apps everywhere. According to the Pew Internet Project, 82% of American adults are active mobile phone users. Nearly half of all users (43%) have downloaded apps, with 24% using them on a regular basis. The most popular apps are games, news/weather, maps/navigation, social networking, music, entertainment/food, banking/finance, sports, productivity, and shopping/retail. So, yes, there really is an app for everything! Teach ‘em young, Sesame Street… (via mashable)