Perhaps the simplest and the best way to classify apps is to take a look at the general categories of application stores. This way is perfect for its intended purpose: facilitate the search for needed apps. Here we tried to group apps in another manner: picking the most spread types, interesting for mobile startups and mobile development. Who knows if your future mobile startup will be connected with one of these....

An idea is a fragile and precious thing; it requires to be well-thought over before being shaped into something tangible. If your idea concerns a new mobile application, you have to check whether this idea has already found its way to the vastness of application stores. At any moment you might discover that the brilliant idea conceived by your mind, is an app that's already in the store. Should you abandon it in disappointment? Or should you actually take the idea and implement it better than it...

Desire for various gadgets is an omnipresent trait of modern people. Technology has always aroused interest among us. But trends are gradually changing, going forward and back. Not so long ago we wished to have everything in one single device. Some of us still do; and the closest gadget was a smartphone; it had a multimedia player, a web browser, a means of communication, an organizer, and more, and more....

Communication is an essential part of business; corporate privacy is an obligatory work condition. If we combine these two notions, we'll get an ever acute issue in the world of business - secure communication. Security does not depend on the size of your enterprise; neither does on the industry you are in. Security is a general must, and it's hard to argue.


Online has always had a...

PhoneGap is a popular framework for creating cross-platform applications. The main advantage is the possibility of using the same code on various platforms. But that's not fully correct, because PhoneGap is a native WebView component, which has an HTML5/JavaScript application; and which is able to access the native functions of a mobile device (accelerometer, compass, contacts etc.).


Choosing platforms for a PhoneGap application


Currently PhoneGap supports...