HTML5 essentially makes the juicy, interactive features that made Flash so attractive – video, audio, animation – now achievable within the browser, no downloads or plug-ins required.

Reports that Google Inc. will introduce a mobile payment system today are being welcomed by many, and industry experts believe the move could bolster the mobile payment space overall.

Isis is opening its arms to invite Apple, Sprint and Google into its mobile payment network, but whether this would be a good development for mobile payments or not remains to be seen.

With the flood of developers, brands and marketers developing content for Android, research firm research2guidance predicts it will reach 425,000 apps by August, surpassing the Apple App Store.

Zappos.com has launched a mobile app for Android, allowing customers to shop its full catalog of handbags, shoes and clothes via their mobile devices.

The iPhone now makes up 14 percent of the United States mobile phone market, making Apple the third-largest manufacturer outranking HTC, Motorola and Research In Motion, according to an NPD Group study.

In this rant, I am going to point out what many of you already know – that the iVerse is under attack. By whom, you ask? By a pairing of unlikely conspirators: Google and Amazon.

Developer energy is shifting back to Apple as fragmentation and unenthusiastic interest in current Android tablets take away from Google’s recent gains, according to an Appcelerator study.

Retail giant Best Buy is placing an iPhone application at the center of its national Buy Back campaign that is intended to convince consumers to upgrade to latest and greatest consumer electronics products.

News about mobile payments, mcommerce strategies such as apps and mobile Web site conversion tips took over the headlines of Mobile Commerce Daily in the first quarter of 2011.