Mobile Apps

Apple’s App Store Signs Up Chinese Expansion Deal

Apple confirms deal with UnionPay, China’s only domestic banking card provider, to let customers pay for apps

10 years ago

Apple Watch Under Investigation By US Security Authorities

FTC seeks assurances regarding health data security and privacy from apps working with the Apple Watch

10 years ago

Apple Prepares For Enterprise Push With New Sales Team And Developer Tie-Ups

Reports suggest Apple is seeking more partnerships ahead of its enterprise venture with IBM

10 years ago

NHS Set To Embrace Mobile Health Apps, Digital Records

Patients will be able to access complete NHS records on their smartphone by 2018

10 years ago

Good Technology: Custom Apps Rise By 731 Percent

Good Technology research finds huge increase in number of companies looking to go mobile with custom apps

10 years ago

Box Updates iOS App With TouchID, Widgets And Favourites

Box releases new iOS app and updates web platform with streamlined interface and back end controls

10 years ago

SAP & Samsung Team Up To Develop Mobile, Wearable Apps For Industry

Retail, healthcare and oil and gas industries all set to benefit from custom apps

10 years ago

Sainsbury’s Mobile Shopping App Does Away With Checkout Queuing

Company says new app will dramatically cut time it takes to do your weekly shop

10 years ago

Apple Lets Former iPhone Users Unregister From iMessage

New de-registration tool should solve ex-iPhone owners message woes

10 years ago

New Microsoft Office Apps For iPhone, iPad And Android Can Actually Edit Files

Microsoft releases new mobile apps that can edit documents without an Office 365 subscription

10 years ago

SnapDonate Lets You Give To Charity Via Your Smartphone

New image recognition app allows you to make donations from your device’s camera

10 years ago

Apple Pay Blocked At Two Major US Chains

CVS Health and Rite Aid disable Apple’s payment technology in their stores

10 years ago

100 Million Smartwatches Will Be Sold By 2019

Juniper report predicts an explosion of wearables devices across the world

10 years ago

Yahoo Set To Invest Millions In Snapchat

Investment could value the messaging app at around $10bn

10 years ago

Facebook To Launch Healthcare Services

Support communities and Facebook fitness apps among offerings rumoured to be on the way

10 years ago

FBI Shuts Down “Stalking” App

StealthGenie allowed users to monitor calls and texts and eavesdrop using device microphone

10 years ago

MSN Gets A Mobile Makeover

In a nod to the post-PC era, Microsoft's long-lived Web portal is now optimized for tablets and smartphones

10 years ago

Evernote And Vine Among First Android Apps To Be Released On Chromebooks

Google wants more Android apps on Chromebooks in bid to create integrated ecosystem

10 years ago

Apple Reveals Most Common Reasons For App Store Rejection

Buggy apps, incomplete contact details and design flaws will see your app rejected from the App store

10 years ago

Microsoft Purges 1,500 ‘Misleading’ Apps From Windows Store

Microsoft pledges rogue app purge from its Windows Store, with 1,500 'misleading' products already removed

10 years ago

Samsung Relaunches Its Android App Store As Galaxy Apps

Samsung Galaxy Apps offers optimised and exclusive apps for Galaxy devices

10 years ago

Amazon Vows To Fight FTC Over In-App Purchases

The FTC has been promised a legal fight after Amazon threatened to bring in the lawyers over in-app purchases

10 years ago

Amazon Extends Developer Select Programme To UK Ahead Of Fire Phone Launch

Amazon offers benefits and monetisation options to developers who create Android apps optimised for the Fire Phone

10 years ago

Taxi Drivers’ Uber Protest Backfires As Downloads Surge

European capital cities faced gridlocked traffic conditions yesterday after taxi protest at smartphone app

11 years ago

Google Launches Offline Docs Apps For iPhone And Android

Google Docs and Sheets offer offline editing for iPhone, iPad and Android, with Slides set to follow

11 years ago

Tablets Boost UK Internet Use But Most Apps Are Never Used

Ofcom finds that most apps downloaded onto tablets and smartphones are never opened

11 years ago

Build 2014: Microsoft Delivers Universal Windows Apps

Developers now have the ability to build universal Windows apps that run across PCs, tablets and phones

11 years ago

MWC 2014: IBM Targets App Developers With Watson Mobile Challenge

IBM challenges developers to build mobile apps that can deliver the power of Watson in the palm of your hand

11 years ago

BMC Upgrades Enterprise Cloud Apps

BMC makes its enterprise cloud apps more user-friendly, in line with the consumerisation of IT

11 years ago