Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

It’s the apps. The iPhone and Android conquered the world because of the apps. More specifically, what keeps Android and iOS dominant is the utter lack of those apps on competing platforms. But today, ...

Whether you’re creating a Web app or a mobile app for your business, the end goals are to provide a helpful service for as many customers as possible and expand your company’s reach. But how do you ...

First it was just the Web. Then developers turned to mobile apps after the smartphone revolution. Now, it's a new-age blending of the two. After formerly abandoning its mobile Web site in favor of an ...

If your organisation is still getting to grips with smartphone apps it may be in for a shock - an even newer class of app is bearing down, one which promises to cut multi-platform development hassles ...

Mobile marketing can be a confusing space, as the term encompasses so many types of advertising. One area that perplexes new marketers is the difference between mobile web and in-app advertising. As a ...

WhatsApp has become the most popular messaging app in the world, but it has also leaped off mobile devices and onto our browsers. Many of us value seeing our messages come onto our computer screens in ...

Over the last six months, I’ve been examining and testing a variety of mobile app builders and mobile back ends. In some cases, the app builders and back ends were part of a single product. In other ...