Michelle Megna

Palm’s webOS developer program for creating mobile apps will officially open in December — and it’s taking a much different approach than rival Apple does with its App Store for the iPhone. The program will offer developers a choice of how to get their applications to market — via Palm’s online store or elsewhere on […]

The global roll-out of Microsoft’s new fleet of Windows Mobile 6.5 phones is underway as Redmond also lifts the curtains on its new app store. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is supporting the new devices with two new services. The first, Windows Marketplace for Mobile, lets customers buy and download apps directly to their phones, and marks […]

Verizon Wireless and Google today unveiled details describing a joint effort in which the two tech titans will co-develop, market and sell devices based on Google’s open source mobile platform Android. The deal essentially helps Verizon wean itself off reliance on Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry devices, thus strengthening its position in the competitive […]

Google today introduced a larger mobile ad format optimized for the iPhone, Palm Pre and handsets powered by Android, its own wireless open source operating system. The new AdSense format is designed to take advantage of what Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) calls “high-end smartphones,” which means mobile devices that use full HTML browsers, such as Apple’s […]

Today at the Adobe Max 2009 developer conference, Adobe unveiled Flash Professional CS5, which includes support for creating stand-alone apps for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and iPod Touch. The next version of Flash Authoring will enable developers to create stand-alone iPhone applications using Flash technologies, including ActionScript 3. These applications are just like any other […]

Internet advertising revenues checked in at $10.9 billion for the first half of the year, a 5.3 percent decline from the same period in 2008, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Search and display-related advertising continue to represent the largest percentages of overall interactive advertising spend. Search revenues amounted to more than $5.1 billion for […]

While Apple’s handling of the Google Voice app for the iPhone prompted a federal review and continues to court controversy, a similar Internet phone app by Vonage got the green light and is available today. The free application, Vonage Mobile, is available now for Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry devices and Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) […]

Adobe Systems today unveiled details on its rollout of Flash 10.1 to mobile devices, introducing support for Windows Mobile, webOS, Android, Symbian and the BlackBerry platforms. Adobe’s (NASDAQ: ADBE) Flash technology powers much of the video and interactive content on the Web, but currently smartphones can run only a dumbed-down version, Flash Lite, which supports […]

Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform is poised for a revival — and a huge one, according to a report issued today. Despite the heavy competition from new entries, namely Palm’s (NASDAQ: PALM) webOS and Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android, the use of Windows Mobile in smartphones is slated to triple from 2009 to 2013, allowing it to […]

Search options in Google are getting yet another refinement aimed at providing users with results more finely attuned to their needs. The No. 1 search player now offers nine more Search Options filters — including date ranges and options for more or fewer e-commerce sites. Search Options are found in the “show options” link, in […]

Attention marketers: abandon the click-through metric, but not the display ads. That’s the take away from a study out today that says the click-through metric for rating the success of online display ads should be replaced by a holistic approach that takes into account overall ad impressions. While the amount of people clicking online ads […]

Google has just rolled out a host of new features, including the addition of trends and forum posts in search results and a revamped local search and desktop sync for mobile. One of the new additions is a feature that makes it easier for searchers to find forum posts or related discussions. The idea is […]