mobile applications

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• Yahoo launches stand-alone mobile search app

  Yahoo beefed up its search offerings on Wednesday when it launched Axis, an HTML5-based browser app that delivers search results as page previews rather than as links.

• Facebook buys mobile e-commerce app Karma

  The mobile gift-giving app Karma has announced it has been acquired by Facebook. The announcement came shortly after the markets closed on Facebook's first day as a publicly traded company.

• Appsbar gives small businesses a simple (and free!) template for app building

  If you've ever wanted to build a mobile app for your small business but have been intimidated by the cost of hiring developers, Appsbar has a proposition for you.

• SAP rolls out new mobile apps, boosts HTML5, iOS, Android support

  SAP on Monday unveiled a series of mobile applications covering areas such as expense management and e-learning, as well as improved support for iOS and Android devices. The announcements came at the start of the vendor's Sapphire conference in Orlando.

• MediaTek and Gameloft team up to put more games on phones

  Semiconductor company MediaTek and Gameloft have joined forces to develop games for phones based on MediaTek's chipsets, they announced on Friday.

• China's UCWeb partners with Evernote to bring note-taking feature to mobile browser

  The company behind one of China's largest mobile Internet browsers, UCWeb, will incorporate note-taking features from Evernote into its product, as part of a partnership to help the companies expand globally.

• Evernote launches China-based service to tap country's market

  Evernote launched a Chinese version of its popular note-taking service on Thursday, marking the U.S. company's entrance into a key country, which has already become its third largest market, behind the U.S. and Japan.

• Facebook's App Center seeks to court mobile users

  Facebook said Wednesday that it will launch an App Center where users can browse "high-quality" mobile apps that integrate with the social-networking site.

• Flipboard China downloads expected to soon surpass U.S. downloads

  Flipboard expects the daily number of downloads coming from China for its popular personalized news reading app will very soon surpass its U.S. downloads, following the company's entrance into the Chinese market last December.

• 3LM, Symantec and Wyse all aim to simplify management of mobile devices

  At three different events in three different U.S. cities 3LM, Symantec and Wyse Technology are all showing upgraded or new products to help IT staff better cope with the smartphones, tablets and other devices users are allowed to bring to work.

• Xamarin has ported Android from Java to C#

  Xamarin has ported Android to C# in an effort to improve its own development tools and show that the OS doesn't have to be dependent on Java.

• Microsoft is taking a closer look at "racy" apps on Marketplace

  Microsoft will from now on be paying more attention to the icons, titles, and content of apps on Marketplace, and expects them to get more subtle and modest in the imagery used, the company said in a blog post on Monday.

• LG to launch Cloud for sharing content across smartphones, TVs and PCs

  LG Electronics will launch a beta of its LG Cloud service on Tuesday, that will allow users to access content across various electronic devices, the company said on Monday.

• Casio releases app that can encode and send data using colors

  Japan's Casio has released an experimental app for the iPhone and iPad that encodes and sends data using colors.

• California to develop mobile privacy guidelines

  The state of California will issue a set of best practices for mobile app developers this summer, responding to concerns that have emerged nationwide about smartphone use and privacy.