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    • Apps for Interior Design and Home Improvement – Part 2


    by Kate Simmons, creator of design blog Mirror80

    In Part 1 of this series, we talked about a couple of great apps from magazines and blogs covering interior design and home improvement.

    But, gone are the days when magazine clippings are the only source of highlights for your design files. Likewise, fetching another box of manila file folders from the office supplier store is fast fading away as a second-best option for keeping your ideas, in lieu of the greater flexibility and stunning color images on the iPad and other high-res tablets.

    Now inspiration can be stored on a mobile device. Here are a couple of top-rated idea-generating apps: Continue Reading this Entry

    Apps for Interior Design and Home Improvement – Part 1

    by Kate Simmons, creator of design blog Mirror80 Interior design is no longer just for professionals. With inspiration from numerous [...]

    3D for Mobile: An Example and Tips

     by Mike Qualben While some of the novelty of 3D may be wearing off, its growth continues, as last week’s [...]

    The Appconomy – White Paper No. 1

    by Steve Guengerich Earlier this year, Appconomy, Inc. – publisher of this blog – teamed up with GigaOM to produce [...]

    Mobile 101: My Top 5 Apps for Work

    by Tim Gasper As Apple has proven, when it comes to software for your Apple smart phone or tablet, “there’s [...]

    App Gamification and Social Loyalty: 5 Things I Learned at the AppDevConf

    by Paige Cattano I had the opportunity to cover the debut of the AppDev Conference in Santa Clara last week. Lots of [...]

    Mobile Design: Balancing Performance and Experience

    Special to The Appconomy by Doug Wick, Digby One of the most challenging things about designing mobile websites and applications is that, [...]

    Mary Meeker: Mobile, China, People, Politics

    by Steve Guengerich Ever since she moved to KPCB, Mary Meeker has become an increasingly singular voice for consolidating already [...]

    James Pearce: “Everything Interesting in 2011… HTML 5″

    A Podcast with James Pearce, technologist, writer, mobile web developer & entrepreneur Earlier this year, at SXSW Interactive 2011, we [...]

    Mobile Enterprise Summit 2011 Videos

    by Steve Guengerich On the heels of a very comprehensive Mobilize 2011 event last week, we thought it was worth drawing attention [...]

    Bay Area Mobile Scenes

    by Tim Gasper Source: Daniel Catt We recently brought you four East Coast maps, but we’re definitely not stopping there. It’s [...]

    The Mobile Farmer of Tomorrow

    by Tim Gasper In part 1 of our series on the use of mobile in farming, we highlighted smartphone preferences and [...]

    I Sing the App Electric

    by Becky Rische, Special for the Appconomy-Preview edition High energy prices, a sluggish economy, an unpredictably regulated (yet competitive) market, [...]

    Mobile’s Impact on Healthcare Consumers

    by Sam Nachbar Shifting practices for information sharing and communications within the healthcare industry are altering the relationship between patients and [...]

    Mobile’s Impact on Healthcare Providers

    by Sam Nachbar A healthcare provider’s work is inherently mobile.  By seamlessly fitting into the daily workflow, smartphones are increasing [...]

    Apple Cares about Enterprise

    by guest contributor Nathan Toups, Special to Appconomy Surprisingly many organizations have no idea that Apple has an entire enterprise sales [...]

    The Mobile Farmer of Today

    by Tim Gasper When the U.S. was in its early days as a nation, more than 200 years ago, 90% [...]

    Fortune 500 Apps: A 50% Update

    by Justine Ealy Last month, we produced the first report on a research project we had undertaken about the extent to which Fortune [...]

    The Changing Mobile Landscape

    by Justine Ealy “As companies branch out and create more products, the clarity between partners and competitors is becoming clouded. Apple is [...]

    Cross-platform Mobile Development Tools

    by Steve Guengerich To paraphrase a bygone era in US history, “better to sell the pick axes, than mine for [...]

    From Freight to Phone: Appconomy’s Location Tracking App for FreightWatch

    by Kate Simmons Each year in the United States, $8-12 billion worth of cargo theft occurs. For manufacturers of high-value [...]

    Trends in Mobile Video: From Blip.tv to Big Brands

    by Steve Guengerich More than three years ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously said “people don’t read anymore” in a New [...]

    Appconomy Labs: Mobile Research on the Fortune 50

    by Steve Guengerich We’ve begun to compile research, documenting the Fortune 500‘s use of mobile, beyond their customer-facing sales and marketing [...]

    What Apps Mean to a Digital Politico

    In the standard political narrative that has solidified over the past decade, new media politics began with the Howard Dean [...]

    Headlines from the App Economy: June 18-24

    by Tom Parish Let’s begin this week’s headlines recap with the news of Foursquareteaming with American Express on cash-back deals. Here’s how it [...]

    What Apps Mean To A Real Estate Man

    There are few markets as intuitively in line with GPS-based mobile marketing as the turbulent real estate sector. The industry’s [...]

    Training Choices for App Development

    by Paige Cattano The U.S. Department of Labor reports that close to 300,000 new software development jobs are expected through 2018. Similarly, in [...]

    Apps for Gold: HITEC First Impressions

    by Steve Guengerich We’re in and out of the HITEC 2011 annual conference this week in Austin, Texas.  HITEC is billed as [...]

    A “Baker’s Week” – 8 Great Headlines in 7 Days

    by Tom Parish So how exactly can mobility transform the customer experience and how do you make this really work [...]

    Analysis: In App Design, “Remember to Forget”

    by Steve Guengerich Not quite a decade ago, I was the president of a usability testing and user experience design [...]

    Mobile Matters for Non-Profits

    by David Neff There is no debate on what the future of nonprofits in the mobile space looks like. It’s [...]