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• Emergency workers scan QR codes to quickly access health information

  By Kerry Davis | 31 May, 2012 02:06

  QR codes are being used for more than just advertisements in Marin County, California. There, paramedics hope the stickers could help save lives in emergency situations.

• Samsung's Music Hub service brings 19 million songs to the Galaxy S III

  By Loek Essers | 29 May, 2012 14:09

  Samsung on Tuesday followed up the launch of the Galaxy S III in Europe with its own smartphone music service that allows users to store music in the cloud and stream it for a monthly fee.

• Experts question the need for a Facebook smartphone

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 28 May, 2012 15:35

  Mobile technology will play an important role for Facebook as it tries to find new sources of revenue, but building its own device doesn't make much sense since competition in the smartphone market continues to be very tough, according to analysts.

• Yahoo launches stand-alone mobile search app

  By Cameron Scott | 24 May, 2012 00:01

  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.

• Mobile app standoff: Web app vs. native app

  By Tom Kaneshige | 22 May, 2012 05:33

  Think mobile app, and what do you see?

• Facebook buys mobile e-commerce app Karma

  By Cameron Scott | 19 May, 2012 09:43

  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

  By Brad Reed | 16 May, 2012 07:31

  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

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 May, 2012 00:42

  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

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 12 May, 2012 01:10

  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

  By Michael Kan | 10 May, 2012 19:40

  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

  By Michael Kan | 10 May, 2012 15:17

  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

  By Cameron Scott | 10 May, 2012 10:35

  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

  By Michael Kan | 10 May, 2012 01:34

  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

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 09 May, 2012 02:18

  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#

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 03 May, 2012 21:21

  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.