• 29% of free applications on Android have the capability to access a user's location, compared with 33% of free applications on iPhone
• Nearly twice as many free applications have the capability to access user's contact data on iPhone (14%) as compared to Android (8%)
• 47% of free Android apps include third party code, while that number is 23% on iPhone*

* Examples of third party code includes code that enables mobile ads to be served and analytic tracking for developers.

Using the Captain's Log communicator, users capture voice recordings, text entries, take photos and map GPS locations of their voyages as they travel. Officers select their preferred Enterprise class level, whether taking the role of Captain, Engineering, Science/Medical, Enterprise, or assuming the identity an enemy Romulan or Klingon officer.

They claim that originally developed for the popular Palm handheld devices, Graffiti was well ahead of its time, merging real world shorthand writing with modern computing to simplify data entry for mobile devices.

With Graffiti for Android, users can input letters, numbers and characters quickly and easily by sliding their fingers on the to the toucHscreen. The Graffiti for Android application also features built-in screens to guide users in learning the Graffiti strokes.

Players across the mobile value chain are seeking to emulate Apple's success with the App Store by launching own-brand storefronts, such as 'Mobile Market' from China Unicom, 'Airtel App Central' from Bharti and the 'Apps & Games Shop' on Vodafone 360. Furthermore, the transition to an app-centric environment has also benefited more established storefronts such as GetJar, which passed 1 billion downloads earlier this month.

However, the Juniper report cautioned that players seeking to launch app stores would need to demonstrate sufficient scale to be able to induce developers to provide them with unique content.

As report author Dr Windsor Holden observed, "Apple has been able to achieve several billion downloads from a comparatively small handset base because customers are buying the iPhone for the apps. That's not been the case with other handsets. So even if you have a subscriber base of tens of millions, your addressable market is a fraction of that -- and spread across a variety of operating systems and handsets."

The MOG mobile app for iPhone and Android is now available for unlimite on-demand music. For $9.99 per month,  get access to more than 8 million songs with unlimited listening and all-you-can-download downloads.  So what do you call yourself when you use MOG, a Mogger which rhymes with "blogger."

Included in the service is MOG's desktop service which can be accessed using any PC and any browser. MOG claims to be is the first mobile service that lets subscribers download any song or album directly to their iPhone or Android phone.

MOG Mobile for iPhone and Android features include:

• Unlimited downloads: Subscribers can download any song or album directly to their phones and continue to listen to music even when out of cell or WiFi range.
• On-demand streaming: Unlimited listening to any artist, album, or song at any time.
• MOG Radio: Only MOG offers the patent-pending "MOG Mobius" music discovery engine, which enables users to control the mix of similar artists, from true "artist only" radio up to a full mix of similar artists.
• Playlist access between website and mobile: Make playlists on MOG.com and access them on your phone. Favorite tracks that are bookmarked from the web are then integrated into a user's personal library and appear in favorites on the mobile app.
• High quality audio: Songs can be downloaded at the standard rate of 64 kbps or users can turn on HQ downloads (up to 320 kbps) to save the song as a larger file with higher audio quality. This gives listeners the option of receiving high quality downloads for maximum audio fidelity.
• Multi-tasking: Android users can continue to play music with MOG while using other applications. In the coming weeks, MOG will add multi-tasking for iOS 4 users.

V CAST Apps is currently available on the BlackBerry Bold 9650, Storm2 9550, Curve 8530 and Tour 9630 and will be coming in the next couple weeks to the Storm 9530 and Curve 8330.

Verizon Wireless will send all BlackBerry smartphones that use BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) an icon that links to V CAST Apps, giving customers access to hundreds of productivity, navigation and education apps as well as games and entertainment. Business customers using BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) will need to contact their business specialists for information about how to download V CAST Apps.

Verizon Wireless offers a V CAST Apps BLOCK feature for customers who do not want access to the apps in the storefront. The V CAST Apps BLOCK feature can be managed through My Verizon (for consumers) and My Business or Verizon Enterprise Center (VEC) accounts (for businesses).

For the first time, Shazam's premium app - Shazam Encore - will be available to download on Android Market for $4.99 wikth unlimited tagging and unlimited Recommendations. Shazam users in the US can also directly access Pandora through Shazam Encore to listen to a station from their Tags.

The Goby Android App has over 350 categories of things to do, from hiking and caving to restaurants and galleries. It covers every city, town and region in the United States with geo-location at star. The result lists complete with photos, maps and phone numbers. Goby also gives users the ability to share things to do through Twitter, Facebook and email

The best app winners of the GetJar "Gettie Awards" were announced last night in San Franciso. All of the mobile software applications winners are very useful. And the winners are:

Best Blackberry app: Kayak Flight/Hotel Search  (Free)- Helps you compare hundreds of travel sites at once, organize your itinerary and track your flights right on the Blackberry.

Best iPhone app Tap Tap Revenge 3 - Helps you get access to over 100 free songs and 100 premium bundles of music rhythm games.

Best Android: Lookout - Helps identify and block security threats, backs up and restores a user's personal data, and can quickly find a lost or stolen phone by pinpointing its location on a Google map or sounding a loud alarm.

fring, announced that it is being forced to stop Skype interconnectivity following threat of legal action.

Skype claims tht this action after four years of compatibility is due fring's mobile video calling on iPhone 4 launch. In order to deal with onslaught data overload fring temporarily disconnected Skype.

Since i2006, fing users had access to open 3rd party networks including GoogleTalk, SIP, Twitter and, until now, Skype.

However, despite fring expanding its network capacity over the last days to serve its enlarged user base, Skype refused to allow fring to restore connectivity to Skype.

Open Spot is a crowd-sourced app to share the parking spot wealth or to get help finding parking spaces on your Android phone.

Open Spot shows parking spots located within a ~1.5 kilometer (km) / ~.9 mile (mi) radius of your location. As you move, Open Spot will automatically refresh to show you parking spots within a ~1.5 km / ~.9 radius of where you currently are.

Parking spots are removed from the map after 20 minutes.

If you are an iPhone 4 owner who wants to video call with friends and family who don't have iPhones or you want to use 3G instead of Wi-Fi, then the latest version of the Fring app may be for you. Or you may have an HTC EVO 4G and you want to video call your iPhoned contacts.

Fring, video calling, yesterday allowed iPhone users unrestricted 2-way video calling over Wi-Fi or 3G internet with other iPhone, Android or Symbian devices. A video follows showing the fring app working across devices.

Since adding 2-way video calling on iPhone 4 yesterday, there was  huge jump in fring video calling. To free up capacity for more the fring-to-fring video calling, fring temporarily reduced support to 3rd -party Skype.

Borders' eBook store launches with more than 1.5 million titles, including thousands of free titles, available in a variety of formats, including ePub, mobile and PDF, developed by Kobo maker of eReaders and their iPhone/iPad apps. The eBooks can be read on the Kobo eReader, personal computers, iPhone/iPad, BlackBerry and Android.

Users can get Borders Rewards loyalty program  benefits ranging from special gift cards and free shipping on certain items, to exclusive offers on popular digital series, double Borders Bucks incentives on the purchase of eReaders,

The finalists in their respective categories are:

• Best Android application: DriveSafe.ly, Lookout, Trip Journal.
• Best Blackberry application: Kayak Flight/Hotel Search, Waze, Cnectd.
• Best iPhone application: Tap Tap Revenge 3, Mint.com Personal Finance, Finger Physics.
• Best Java application: Snaptu, WaveSecure Backup, Trippo Voice Translator.
• Best Symbian application: NetQin Mobile Anti-virus, Nimbuzz, Point & Find.
• Best Windows Mobile application: Opera Mini, SportyPal, Glympse.
• Best Overall App (Gettie Award): Shazam on Android, Layar, eBuddy.

The Gettie Awards ceremony will take place in conjunction with the first evening of VentureBeat's annual MobileBeat conference scheduled for July 12, 2010, at 7 p.m. at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California.

Android Backup Features:

• Content Backup: Contacts, SMS, Call logs, Photos, Media, Settings - All your important data.
• Online Backup: Backup your files to leading cloud providers like Box.net and Dropbox.
  
• Scheduled Backup: The most flexible scheduling options available. Silently protect your data 24/7.
  
• Migration: Easy migration support for Android ROM upgrades.
  
• Application Settings Backup:Open Backup API, to safeguard their application settings.
  

Sprite backup costs $4.99 which is a lot less than what it would cost if you lost all your files.

If you are frustrated with onscreen Android touch keyboards, you might want to take a swipe at the open Beta Swype.

Instead of typing with your fingers, Swype allows users to slide your fingers from key to key on a touchscreen keyboard. Swype was invented by the Inventor of the T9 keyboard technology for numeric keypads, Cliff Kushler,

Swype Beta for Android will be open for a limited time - probably a few days. Swype comes in In English, Spanish, and Italian. It has limited features because some key features of Swype require OEM integration. Note that HVGA and WVGA Resolutions will be detected automatically. There is limited user support through a forum.

If your phone came pre-installed with Swype, do not download the beta (it won't work)