Consumers Ignore Most Apps on their Smartphones

"Of smartphone owners, 68% open only five or fewer apps at least once a week, finds a survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. Seventeen percent don't use any apps. About 42% of all U.S. adults have phones with apps, Pew estimates."

Medicine on the Move

"Mobile-health technology is booming. In the words of one doctor, smartphone apps, wireless sensors and other innovative tools hold 'transformative potential.'"

Apps Make College Easier to Access

"No time for class? Pull out your iPhone. A small but growing cadre of online universities is developing mobile apps to help students pursue their studies whenever and wherever they want."

Apple to Capture 76% of 2011 Mobile App Revenue

Apple will capture 76% of all mobile app revenues in 2011, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli.

Lost in Translation? Comparing Smartphone Language Apps

"Thanks to advances in speech-recognition technology, several apps let you skip typing and instead dictate a sentence to have the translation spoken back to you immediately — or to the person you're talking to — in a natural human voice. And best of all, many are free."

Only One in Four Mobile Apps Engages User, Study Says

"The best mobile apps are not merely interesting, fun or useful, but they're engaging. And new research from the mobile metrics firm Localytics indicates that only about one in four mobile apps succeed at being engaging."

Gartner: 1.6 Billion Mobile Device Sales in 2010, Smartphones up 72 Percent

"A recent report released by technology research and business insight company Gartner revealed worldwide mobile device sales to end users grew to 1.6 billion units in 2010, up 31.8 percent from 2009. Furthermore, smartphone sales increased by 72.1 percent from 2009 and accounted for 19 percent of all mobile device sales in 2010."

U.S. Catholic Church Blesses iPhone App for Confession

"The U.S. Catholic Church has apparently given its blessing to an iPhone app aimed at helping Catholics with confession, Reuters reports."

Apple App Store Hits 10 Billion Downloads

"The store now boasts more than 300,000 different programs that can be used on the iPhone or the iPad."

Oklahoma Church's Popular Bible App Takes Faith to Phones

"The world's most popular Bible program for mobile phones was developed by an Oklahoma church."