The holidays are ending, but Austin’s Tabbedout hopes the party will go on, and that bars and restaurants around town will let you use your smartphone to pay the bill. Today the company is launching a coupon feature within its free mobile app for Android and iPhones that connects smartphones to point-of-sale systems at participating [...]

With Americans spending more time using smartphone apps than browsing the Web, application developers often have their pick of job offers — especially if they develop for the Android operating system. But while employers are increasingly searching for Android developers, most full-time app developers are still focusing on iOS, acccording to the latest report from [...]

Traffic in app stores could be almost as heavy as foot traffic in retail stores this Friday, as some of the nation’s major retailers roll out apps meant to bring in foot traffic and online shoppers. Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), Anthropologie and Saks Fifth Avenue are among those working to reach shoppers through [...]

MyTown2 may be blurring the lines between the real and virtual worlds, but there is nothing virtual about the success of Booyah, the company that created MyTown. The location-based mobile game has been picked up more than a 4.5 million users worldwide in its first year, surging ahead of competitors Foursquare and Gowalla. Now Booyah [...]

It’s payback time for beleaguered BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion. RIM said it will let its subscribers download more than $100 worth of free apps from BlackBerry App World, starting Wednesday. The offering is an effort to make amends with customers after a service outage last week left millions of BlackBerry users without access to email, [...]

While Facebook users were busy posting and tweeting about its new look and new features, mobile content developers were absorbing the latest news about Facebook Mobile – the service now has 350 million active monthly users, up 100 million in the last six months. According to Inside Mobile Apps, Facebook for iPhone now has 90.1 million [...]

If you grew up on the West Coast, you may or may not have heard the term “hurricane party” before – it’s a multi-day party held during a hurricane, where guests bring sleeping bags, radios, food and other hurricane supplies. Of course in the chaos of a hurricane, the trick can be finding the party, and [...]

Mark Phillip is an MIT computer science major, the son of a Jamaican immigrant, and a lifelong sports fan. When he accidentally slept through the the second half of what he calls “one of the most exciting games in the history of the NFL” (Jets vs. Dolphins 200) he decided to use technology to prevent [...]

Appconomy’s Steve Guengerich is not from Austin, but he says he got here as quickly as he could. He came in the 1990’s, moving his company from Houston when it was ready to go public. Now his latest venture puts him at the center of the mobile apps economy – which he has christened the appconomy. Appconomy builds [...]

In a recent draft proposal, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it will regulate apps that combine with medical devices that are already regulated by the agency, such as heart monitors that transmit data to a smartphone. The FDA is taking these first steps toward applying regulation to expanding field of medical apps for [...]