Tag: Apps

Will Yahoo’s Redesigned Mail Shed the Unflattering Stereotype of Its Users?

If you’re among the couple of hundred million people using Yahoo Mail, you might want to log in to your Yahoo accounts today because the company is rolling out a brand new look for its email service. CEO Marissa Mayer introduced the change earlier today in a blog post, showing off the new Yahoo Mail for the web, Windows 8, iOS, and Android. Yahoo said its mail service is now faster, leaner, and easier to use.

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Pengembang Software Jepang dan Korea Mulai Mendominasi App Store dan Google Play

Pengembang aplikasi asal Jepang dan Korea menginvasi daftar pengembang dengan angka pendapatan bulanan terbesar di iTunes Store dan Google Play Store. Menurut laporan yang baru-baru ini dirilis oleh App Annie, sebuah perusahaan analisis pasar aplikasi mobile, pengembang-pengembang asal Jepang seperti Applibot (di urutan ke-6), Square Enix (di urutan ke-7), GungHo Online (di urutan ke-8), dan Gree (di urutan ke-10) masuk dalam daftar 10 pengembang dengan pendapatan bulanan tertinggi di iTunes Store pada Oktober lalu.

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Microsoft, Nokia, and Radya Labs to Run Another Mobile App Challenge

Nokia Indonesia and Microsoft Indonesia are running another joint app competition, this time it’s called Lumia App Olympiad. The competition is open to students and the public who are proficient in using the SDK for Windows Phone 7.5 or Windows Phone 8. The winner will receive a gold medal, Nokia Premium Developer Program worth USD 1500, and the latest Nokia smartphone powered by Windows Phone 8. The event is supported by Evernote, Radya Labs, and Merah Putih Inc.

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Does it Matter that Microsoft Will Release Office For iOS and Android Next Year?

Earlier this month The Verge revealed that Microsoft Office is coming for iOS and Android. The apps are supposedly being prepped for launch in the first half of next year. The app was to bring the company’s cloud-based Office 365 to a wider range of customers and to allow them access to the service from non-Microsoft operating systems. The Office app is said to be free to download but will require a subscription to Office 365 to activate editing function, without which the app can only be used as a file viewer.

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Windows Phone 8 SDK is Now Available to Download

At the Windows Phone 8 launch yesterday Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore promised everyone that the Windows Phone 8 software development kit will be available at the start of build, the company’s developer conference. Sure enough, the SDK is now available to download from Microsoft. The event has kicked off and developers are set to dig in.

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DyCode’s Tiket Kereta App for Nokia Asha Phones Uses Tiket’s API

The call by Tiket for developers to take advantage of its API was immediately answered by DyCode. The Bandung-based company has created two identical apps called Tiket Kereta, one for the Asha and another for the Asha Full Touch. The different versions address the different operating systems running on the two Asha lines. Using this app, Nokia Asha users won’t need to go through too much trouble in purchasing their train tickets especially during homecoming season such as right now. The apps are free from Nokia Store.

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Amazon Releases Facebook Game Through Amazon Game Studio

As you can tell from the name, Amazon Game Studio is a game studio owned by Amazon. This game studio is Amazon’s step to be involved in the gaming business. Amazon Game Studio even already released a Facebook based social game, Living Classics in a post on Hello Word.

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“Keranjang Aplikasi” from Qualcomm Wants to Promote Local Android Apps

Android platform users must be confused by the many apps on Google Play. Of those million apps, there are many apps which do not run as it should, be it local or outside apps. This affects local developers. They build an Android app, which arguably very qualified but having difficulty to promote the app because of it.

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Twitter Introduces New Mobile Site, Leaves Out Lists

Twitter is on a roll. After announcing new mobile apps for iOS and Android, signing a deal with MediaTek to embed Twitter on millions of feature phones, and reworking search, Twitter announced that it has completed work on delivering a new mobile Twitter site which is faster, more compact, leaner, and consistent across platforms. The new version, which resembles the one that’s been available for smartphones for some time now, works across any mobile browser including on feature phones.

Apparently Twitter had been working on the new design for the past nine weeks and tested it on 300 different mobile devices that it has in its offices. The redesign gives the mobile site a look that is consistent with its full site as well as the current apps for iOS and Android. Twitter is intent on delivering the same experience no matter what platform people access it from although it still has some ways to go.

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Third Party Apps in Danger as Twitter Severs Ties With LinkedIn

Just two weeks after Twitter introduced expanded tweets for brands, product team director Michael Sippey reiterated Twitter’s intentions with regards to its product and distribution of content  on the company’s developer blog. Upon reading it thoroughly it’s never been clearer that Twitter aims to control its product more so than ever before. In aiming to deliver a consistent experience, the days of third party apps seem to be numbered.

As Sippey noted in his post, Twitter’s director of platform Ryan Sarver last year fired a warning shot at third party developers to discourage them from creating applications that mimic Twitter’s own and deliver identical Twitter experience to consumers. This is simply an extension of that directive and LinkedIn is the first casualty.

At the same time, LinkedIn published a post on its own blog noting that it will no longer be deliver tweets on its network. The relationship between these two companies began in 2009 and LinkedIn users were able to display their tweets on their LinkedIn profile page. I’ll leave it to you to decide whether synchronizing your tweets to LinkedIn is a wise move, but in any case, this is no longer possible as of today.

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