Mobile application development is a bonus field and everyone, including Wipro and HCL, is making full of this $17 billion opportunity as more outsourcing buyers seek to offer new solutions to their customers, increasingly, using more and more mobile devices. It has been so widely disseminated that even high school students have ventured into developing mobile applications. New York public schools have launched a 12-week program for learning to develop own-business apps. Students are entitled to learn programming basics, how to design user interfaces, and develop prototype apps with assistance from Google, New York. The final project will be presented before the judges and venture capitalists. A winning team’s app is then developed by professionals taking student’s input and will be introduced to Android Market. (more…)

Ever loved birds put on the sling and shot to kill those grunting green pigs? Yes, you guessed it right. I am taking about the most popular game for almost every mobile platform “angry birds”. For all those, who acquire a smart phone would have enjoyed playing Angry birds. Honestly, when I first saw my friend playing it I found it stupid. In fact like most of you, who are not addicted to the game, I was amazed to see such a simple game earning $6 billion in 2009 alone for its developers. I took a trial and got hooked to it. Every level in the game comes like a challenge and the game is absolutely engaging. The player’s ability to pinch and zoom and pan before turning, are things that add up to the game’s success. (more…)

200,000 plus Android powered smart phones are being activated everyday! However, the scenario was completely different during the initial launch of Android. Today it sees almost 25% growth in seven weeks. It looks like Android is no far to outstrip RIM blackberry in a few days. The growth prospect of Android looks really bright with the extensive range of Android-enabled smart phones like HTC wildfire, which allows sharing applications and Samsung Galaxy. Mobile application developers have found their way of proving their encompassing creativity with the extensive customizations that Android offers. The Bigger better and perpetual scope in Android mobile application development is seen as Google covers the cost of Android development simply with mobile ads. (more…)

The social networking development arena has seen tremendous advancement in the recent times and the trends suggest that this characteristic will remain to be a perennial feature of this vastly popular segment. Social network development majors like Facebook, Twitter, etc. have seen a swell in their user bases owing to increased affinity among netizens to imbibe the virtual facet of life. (more…)

Apple, after taking the world by storm with its iPhone and the related iPhone application development has now done an encore with the revolutionary iPad. (more…)