The Chetan Sharma Consulting Firm recently published research that takes an in-depth look at the current state of the mobile ecosystem. Chetan Sharma’s research shows the exponential growth of mobile, revealing statistics in categories like the growth of mobile subscriptions, mobile data, mobile app revenue, global mobile leaders (subscriptions, data revenue, and total revenue) and device and tablet purchases. The firm also cites predictions for the second half of 2011. Below is a short synopsis:… Read more »

As we mentioned on the blog earlier this week, PointAbout’s Nate Weisz and Doug Peterson each had the opportunity to present at the MoDevDC MeetUp at TeqCorner last week. Nate walked the crowd through an iPhone and iPad app PointAbout’s team worked with a major airline services company to create and debuted in Copenhagen earlier this month at the Passenger Terminal Expo. The app provides users with an airline-agnostic travel tool, complete with digital boarding… Read more »

As mobile developers, part of our job is to offer insight into the mobile landscape and share articles, viewpoints, and recent findings about app development. Forrester’s Mike Gualtieri’s latest report provides an uncommon look at mobile app development. He discusses design, with an emphasis on user engagement, user experience, and keys to creating a mobile app that’s useful, usable, and desirable. Gualtieri stresses that making an app desirable and usable means taking into account the… Read more »

Pretty much the entire PointAbout team hustled out of the office yesterday afternoon to catch a picnic lunch at the National Cherry Blossom Festival. We soaked up the 80 degree weather, checked out the Jefferson Monument and the World War II Memorial from afar, and even had our fearless leader Pete Johnson interviewed by a local TV station. We have quite a few shutterbugs in the company, so there’s ample photo evidence below to show… Read more »