Almost exactly a year ago we went to CES in Las Vegas and met up with many of our app developer members to look at the year ahead. It felt like 2011 was gearing up to be an exciting year of growth, but also when app developers would attract the [...]
A Neilsen study was just released revealing the extraordinary connection consumers have with their smartphones. This report is the product of Nielsen's new Smartphone Analytics program -- a valuable new resource that receives data directly from mobile devices providing better accuracy than user surveys. So what does this new information [...]
Today the U.S. District Court issued a significant ruling that Google can be held liable for damages under the Wiretap Act because of its Wi-Spy program that collected usernames, passwords, whole emails, and other private data. The Wi-Spy program was a part of a Street View initiative in which Google [...]
The Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision today in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association struck down a California law that prohibited, in part, the sale of certain video games to minors. One of the most important aspects of this decision was the court’s recognition of media equality; electronic media receive the same [...]
ACT rejects the proposal by Cellular Telephone and Internet Association to rate smartphone apps and act as the apps regulator. Software developers have expressed loud and clear that they do not want an association with competing interests to regulate the applications ecosystem. Recently, government officials and trade associations have been [...]