Open Source – Startups

Google said Chrome for Android was designed from the ground up for mobile devices.

MyAppsMall also provides a platform for apps developers to monetize their apps to an international market, making content available to the rest of the region covered by SingTel via its multiple market base.

Android has replaced Apple’s iOS in terms of importance to developers in the Asia-Pacific region in the last 12 months.

Using Globe’s’s automated billing system, post-paid bill or pre-paid subscribers using Nokia phones can now purchase premium apps and other content from the Nokia Store.

A group of young global leaders will pilot a non-profit initiative to give 1 billion mobile phone users living in poverty access to educational phone apps.

Locally developed “KahelOS” entered the top ten of Distrowatch.com, an online site that charts and monitors Linux distributions worldwide, upon its release in early December.

The new application follows the MMDA iOS app for Apple users released in September, and which, in two months time, has over 64,000 users.

The Software Skills Inventory Report from the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) also revealed that Java ME, formerly a favorite development platform, was relegated to third place.

The biggest addition to the new version is the “mobile ordering” function which allows users to order food through the app.

A social network that connects people according to hobby and location was recently proclaimed the top start-up proposal in the first Start-up Weekend Manila held at the Mint College in Bonifacio Global City.