Yesterday, Apple announced their iPad device.  To those unaware, the iPad is basically a huge iPod Touch featuring a 10″ screen and 10 hours of battery life.  For more about the iPod, check out extensive coverage elsewhere – it’s been covered heavily. Here’s my angle: I’m very disappointed they have chosen AT&T 3G for their…

(image courtesy of photorisma) Hello there! As if we haven’t all had enough excitement today we’ve got a little something to announce. For quite a while, the Taptu Blog has had the same look and feel so we decided recently it was time to give the blog a coat of paint and we embarked on…

At Taptu, we’re big on making sure we meet our users where their needs lie. This is why we have taken Wapedia from the mobile web to the iPhone platform, onto Android, and today we’re announcing the availability of Wapedia on our newest platform, WebOS! We’re very excited about the new version that is available…

A quick update regarding our popular Wikipedia-browsing app, Wapedia. First of all, we have reached a major milestone with regards to our Wapedia app on Android.’a0 On Friday, we surpassed 250,000 downloads from the Android Market.’a0 This is a huge accomplishment for us and we’re very excited to thank our awesome Wapedia community for helping…

Matt Radford recently posted a guest post over at All About Symbian that interested me.  Matt talks about going to a N97 Mini after being a regular iPhone user. He gives some great perspectives and feedback that I think Espoo (where Nokia is from) should pay attention to, mainly with regards to ease of use…

Introduction The Motorola Droid is the first handset offering from Verizon Wireless that runs the Android operating system.  In the year since it’s release, Android has been available in the U.S. on HTC handsets branded by American mobile carrier T-Mobile.  The Droid, from Motorola, was highly anticipated because it runs version 2.0 of Android and…

This summer, Continental Airlines, a U.S. based airline, conducted a campaign to see whether a specific set of ads were more effective on a mobile website versus embedded in a mobile app on an iPhone. Partnering with MediaVest, Continental ran an ad on WhitePages.com and inside WhitePages corresponding iPhone application.’a0 The summer campaign sought to…

eMarketer, an online research firm, has gathered some very interesting statistics about childhood use of mobile phones in the United States.’a0 It appears that American children are gaining access to the mobile world at a very young age, with about 35% of 10-11 year olds owning a mobile phone in 2009!’a0 That’s more than 1…

Almost two years ago, I blogged about Jazinga, a killer new phone system aimed at small to medium sized businesses.  What is the need that Jazinga helped fill?  If you’re a small business owner – say a doctor or other small business, setting up your phone system can be very expensive; perhaps in upwards of…

Good day, Wapedia users!’a0 We are very pleased to hand over a new version of Wapedia on Android to our loyal users. So, if you are so inclined, fire up the Android Market and download version 1.5.8 of our Wapedia application on Android.’a0 Among some other changes, the new Wapedia version features: An improved user…