The NOAA Release Mako App was created for fisherman to report their releases of shortfin mako sharks while on the water. The mobile product was developed by the National Marine Fisheries Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The app which is available on the Android platform uses GPS and allows fisherman to upload [...]

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Agencies can look at what people are currently doing on mobile to help with their own mobile services investment decisions. comScore released their 2012  Mobile Future in Focus Report with data on popular apps. A few ideas to take away. People like to be entertained. On both platforms games and video watching are popular. People [...]

This holiday season saw another mobile milestone reached. A record 1.2 billion apps were downloaded by iPhone and Android owners last week. According to mobile analytics firm Flurry, 20 million iOS and Android devices were activated between December 25th and December 31, 2011. A record-breaking 6.8 million iOS and Android devices were activated on Christmas Day alone. [...]

According to survey company Nielsen, Android users spend twice as much time using apps than the mobile web on their phones. The average Android user spends 56 minutes a day on apps and the web, two-thirds of the time on apps and one-third on mobile web sites. They also found [D]espite the hundreds of thousands of apps [...]

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration‘s new mobile product, the OSHA Heat Safety Tool,  allows workers and supervisors to calculate the heat index for their worksite, and, based on the heat index, display a risk level to outdoor workers. The app, which is available on Andriod devices, pulls data from the National Weather Service for it’s [...]