Announcing the Mobile Platform Development Webinar Series! GSA’s Mobile Gov Program Management Office is working with agencies throughout government to help them deliver government content–information, data and services–anytime, anywhere and on any device. One way to  deliver content to citizens is via applications on mobile devices or native mobile apps. Agencies with mission-related apps need to [...]

Apps development is becoming an economic force. According to a new study published by TechNet, an industry group, mobile app development is creating jobs. The study found that there were about 466,000 jobs in the “App Economy” in the United States, up from zero in 2007. Top U.S. Metro Areas With Highest Percentage of App [...]

We know mobile information is moving fast, but who knew how fast? Mobile ad exchange company Mobclix crunched through data and found that every 60 seconds 208,333 minutes are played of Angry Birds. 77,244 wi-fi connections are made on iPhones Another 51,937 connections are made via Android. That’s 129,ooo connections a minute over the two [...]

Agencies Mobile Gov efforts need the right  technical expertise to build useful products for the public. Makes sense that agencies might think about training to build some in-house tech expertise.  [ht to Sam Bronson] Stanford University–you know that school/high tech incubator on the West Coast–has rolled out a free version of it’s web app development [...]

New data from comScore shows that not only are people checking their social networks (like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) from their phones, but they are actively engaging. In addition to reading posts, people are using their phones to add their own updates, post links and follow links to other content. Mobile Social Networking Activities 3 [...]

Smartphone adoption continues to grow. Last month’s Nielsen Mobile Insights survey found While 43 percent of all mobile subscribers in the US had a smartphone as of August, 56 percent of those who got a new device in the last 3 months chose a smartphone over a feature phone. And Android is taking a bigger [...]

Predicting what will happen is hard to begin with, but in a rapidly changing market like mobile it seems like there are new predictions every week. Government agencies looking to make services and information available via mobile need to make the best decisions they can–even if that means looking into a murky crystal ball. As [...]

Kevin Rose, founder of the social news site Digg, is starting up a new venture. His company, called Milk, is going to be a development lab for mobile Web ideas. According to TechCrunch Milk is not only counter to the typical incubator thinking– it’s counter to a lot of Valley trends right now. Rose and a [...]