Wapedia is a largely popular wiki client on the mobile platform.’a0 Taptu publishes Wapedia, and the website/app has a fantastic following in the Android, iPhone, Palm and mobile web communities. Wapedia started out as a WikiPedia client, but now includes dozens of wikis on all sorts of topics. To better engage with our Wapedia community,…
iPhone/iPod Touch users: fire up your App Store, there’s a new version of Taptu waiting for you to update to. For this release of the iPhone app, our team was focused on introducing a few new features and enhancing the speed and fluid-ness within the application.’a0 Go grab the new version now, in iTunes! User…
Look for huge dinosaurs in Austin – they are your key to free dinner for you and a few friends! South By Southwest (aka SXSW) is fast approaching!’a0 Taptu will be in full force at the annual gathering in Austin, Texas starting next weekend.’a0 That’s right, Chris Moisan and myself (Jason Harris) will be in…
Today we’re pleased to publish our second report analyzing the Mobile Touch Web. In the first report we introduced this second wave of content for touchscreen mobiles and illustrated the major categories of this significant, new and fast-changing ecosystem. We were taken aback by the industry reaction to the first report which led to some…
W00t! – we’re a bit happy over here at Taptu Towers as the nice people over at Apple are featuring Taptu on the App Store homepage this week. As a startup it’s always nice to get some recognition and in the spirit of blowing our horn we thought we’d share with you some of our…
I recently asked Bob Last, a co-founder and our VP of Business Development, to give some perspective from his point of view on Mobile World Congress.’a0 Bob wrote a great poem, and here it is for you to enjoy! Another year at MWC Barcelona has passed The GSM-A annual blast 50,000 suits and smart phones…
Are you heading to Mobile World Congress this coming week in Barcelona, Spain.’a0 Part of the Taptu gang will be leaving snowy and gray Cambridge in favor of views of the Mediterranean and some Barcelona sunshine. In the Taptu party will be Steve Ives, CEO; Bob Last, Co-Founder and VP Business Development, and Benjamin Southworth,…
Hot off the presses of our new iPhone version release, we’re pleased to announce a new version of our Wapedia application for the Android platform. The most important new feature with the new release is the introduction of LiveFolders.’a0 As written about on ReadWriteWeb, LiveFolders is an amazing new feature introduced into Android recently which…
(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…
Google today announced some interesting new features with their mobile search that include voice search with location-based results, great integration with QR barcodes (which we love!) and an augmented reality search based on your location called ’93Google Goggles’94.’a0 Separately, Google announced their entrance into the real-time search market on the desktop web. Google’s added attention…