Gartner estimates that over 268 billion mobile downloads will generate an income of $77 billion in 2017. The estimated global mobile app revenue was $35 billion in 2014, and is predicted to touch $77 billion in 2017. Mobile applications are indispensable, as every consumer and end-customer for a business needs [...]
Very few business ventures today can think of functioning without a mobile application. According to Transparency Market Research (TMR), the adoption of test automation will be boosted by the growth in mobile applications. A lead TMR analyst states, “The increasing proliferation of mobile applications across multimedia travel, communications, utilities, and productivity [...]
The year 2016 has been bit of a shocker for Samsung, the South Korean handset manufacturer. According to recent news reports, Samsung has planned to conduct random X-rays and charging tests to investigate why its Galaxy Note7 phone batteries exploded and caught fire as well. This leaves an unescapable [...]
A few decades ago, telephones were the devices used for immediate and urgent communication. It rang loudly to catch attention, and families waited in anticipation to know what news was being received. A few years later, pagers came into picture, where short message texts were sent to deal with [...]
Mobile phones are hand-held technological devices that have undergone several bouts of transformation over the past few decades. Changing in shape, size and functionality, mobile phones have inched their way into the pockets of their users. Thirty years ago, pagers were thought to be obligatory, and signaled cases of [...]
Bank applications are quickly turning out to be not just handy, but necessary, as customers grow better educated about their financial options. Inhibitions are fading as more end-users familiarize themselves with the digital functionality of bank applications, whether in the form of Net Banking, or through Mobile Application Banking. [...]
With a funding round of $1.1bn (£850m) at a valuation of $45bn, Xiaomi was overwhelmingly the most valuable start-up in 2014. Shockingly, just 18 months since the last funding a new analysis indicated that Xiaomi’s worth fell down to a massive low of less than $4bn. This left everyone [...]
On August 24th, 2016, Cigniti hosted a webinar along with Experitest on the topic, “How a Cloud-Based Mobile Device Lab Accelerates Time to Market and ROI”. The essence of the webinar is given in the following web blog post. Quality Assurance (QA) strategy: Is your enterprise up-to-date? Mobile applications enable businesses [...]
The launch of Tesco Homeplus’s first virtual store in 2011 was a perfect example of a successful localization effort. In a subway station located in Seoul, South Korea, Tesco teamed up with Samsung, to provide the feeling of a virtual store. Customers could download the associated application into their [...]
Last week, headlines made a racket about 900 million Android smart phones and tablets that were declared to be at risk for recently discovered vulnerabilities, christened ‘QuadRooter’. Four vulnerabilities are said to be affecting Android devices built using Qualcomm chipsets. A processor in a Smartphone comprises primarily of the central [...]
