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This is the third in our series of six app-related articles. See also: • It’s all about the design. Essential tips from user experience gurus • Mobile applications: native v Web apps – what are the pros and cons? • What is a mobile Web app? Here’s expert opinion from the W3C • The open market approach: Q&A with GetJar, the No1 independent app store • How museums bring collections to life with augmented reality

will an iPhone app deliver return on investment (ROI)

ll you can do are some crude calculations based on the three numbers that Apple releases

voice service platform providers that includes companies such as Jaduka, Ifbyphone, Ribbit and Voxeo. A

oice-integrated applications commonplace.

Cloud Telephony

established an open platform, “Showtime”, that will allow developers to plug into the Zeebox world.

second screen applications would have to be cross platform and not just tied to one telco or broadcaster

HTML5 apps that can be added into the Zeebox platform

re-conceptualize how one thinks about TV

TV is the last screen to fall as a computing platform

argest computer monitor in our lives,

How will device vendors differentiate themselves? What is User Experience? What are the most suitable Open Source licensing models for mobile handset software? How to succeed in an Open Source world How to make money with Open Source The challenges and risks of Open Source What are the major trends in mobile handset OS? Which OS platforms will be the most popular in 2009 and in 2013? What strategies are being adopted by the leading handset vendors? What does this mean? What is the future for proprietary OS? What mobile OS strategies are operators adopting?

n 2008, there were almost 162 million Smartphones sold, surpassing notebook sales for the first time. Just over 49% of Smartphones sold in 2008 were based on Symbian OS, a significant drop from a near 65% share it enjoyed one year earlier. While this is in large part due to the relatively poor performance of Nokias Smartphone range, it is also an indication of the popularity enjoyed by competing platforms including Linux, BlackBerry OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, OS X iPhone and new entrant Android.

Openness is a key criterion, says Informa, while all in the mobile telecoms space now see the revenue potential of applications and services.

attempt to break into the smartphone market

Intel's 15 largest acquisitions

n every one, Intel later shut down or sold off the acquired products

[PDF] Mobile: Increasing value per handset ... basic phone. Chip function Applications processor Baseband processor Wi-Fi/BlueTooth Smart Feature Basic Basic phones ...

Smartphones rely on two main chips -- an application processor, which oversees the phone's basic functions, and a baseband processor, which lets the phone communicate with other gadgets.

several other ARM chipmakers already have done, he said, Intel would likely merge both processors

Infineon unit makes chips for smartphones

Social gaming applications currently have over one billion “monthly active users

Social gaming is rapidly taking share from other online gaming segments a

simpler to use, personalised and social.

iPlayer V2,

main problems we had to solve were largely technical things like:

RIM's BlackBerry handsets were the best selling smartphones in the UK for 2010

n December 2010, BlackBerry's market share went to a record high of 36 per cent, with a 51.1 per cent share for pre-pay deals and 23.3 per cent for contract free phones

It had sold over 129 million BlackBerry smartphones worldwide

l a total of 6.5 million HDTV units featuring applications by the end of the

o 20 million unit sales.

k at Sports Illustrated's idea for how its content might be displayed on a tablet, the Mag+ concept for putting magazines on tablets and Wired magazine's vision for what it m

e also how Flyp presents multimedia stories in a more magazine-like format or Google's experiment with Fast Flip to quickly move through

check out vook, which takes a tra

number of devices connected to IP networks will be twice as high as the global population in 2015.

In 2010, only 3 percent of Internet traffic originated with non-PC devices, but by 2015 the non-PC share of Internet traffic will grow to 15 percent.

TVs, tablets, smartphones, and machine-to-machine (M2M) modules will have growth rates of 101 percent, 216 percent, 144 percent, and 258 percent, respectively

0 percent of paid Android apps have clocked fewer than 100 downloads,only two paid applications have been downloaded more than half a million times in the Google Android Market worldwide to date