Today I wrote the FCC to express support for the AT&T-T-Mobile merger because it would greatly help app developers. The spectrum crunch is forcing carriers to throttle speeds for high data users. These are the kind of users that buy apps and contribute to the explosive growth in the apps [...]
A number of recent reports and analyses have been published in the past week indicating that the strength and growth in the mobile online marketplace is greater than anticipated. Only three years old, the app marketplace has been nearly doubling in size annually. The size and rate of growth figures [...]
[Crossposted at Huffington Post] The next time you download a mobile app, think about the company that produced it. If you guessed it came from a large, California-based company, you're likely wrong. Most mobile apps are actually created by small companies from all across the country. These are the findings [...]
In early June, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on European Standardisation intending to “accelerate, simplify and modernise standardisation procedures”. In this document, the Commission has singled out ICT as a sector where standards are important, playing a role in stimulating innovation, cutting administrative burdens and encouraging [...]
This week, 30 mobile apps developers from the Association for Competitive Technology are coming from all over the U.S. to Washington to talk about the mobile apps economy and the issues small business technology entrepreneurs face. ACT Members will share their stories with Members of Congress about the fastest growing [...]