(Reuters) - More than 700,000 people use the Financial Times' Web-based mobile application to access news and other content, making it more popular than the version sold in Apple's App Store. The ...

Clinicians at three Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine hospitals can now access patient information, including vitals and current medications, through a Web-based mobile app called Connexus. Connexus is ...

Dotplay has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to further develop its web-based mobile game technology platform. This will allow mobile developers to bypass traditional app stores and cut ...

Smartphone software can provide anything from nuts-and-bolts field service management to an at-the-ready beacon to help you find your way in the dark or provide a spotlight on the work at hand. Bella ...

Apple's mobile software has supported so-called "web apps" for years now. But what is a web app, and how do they differ from typical apps used on iPhone and iPad? Here's your short explainer. When ...

In a couple of months, you'll be able to get Microsoft's mobile games from its own store. Xbox President Sarah Bond has revealed at the Bloomberg Technology Summit that the company is launching a ...

Remember the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)? Before smartphones, it seemed as though everyone was building mobile versions of their websites in WAP form. This even happened again for a short ...

Operators have merged two different platforms for distributing Web-based mobile applications, in a effort to start competing with the likes of Apple’s AppStore and Google’s Market. In February, a ...

In an effort to make mobile applications easier to use, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has established a set of guidelines for developers to keep in mind when creating their Web-standards based ...

Nokia has quietly launched a web-based Download Store, offering applications and games to users in 17 European countries. It's an online equivalent of the Download application available on Nokia ...

Quick-service restaurants' enthusiasm for making gamification a part of their mobile loyalty strategies suggests that Web-based games are easier to stomach ? unless a brand already boasts the massive ...

Fraser MacInnes is a mobile games industry professional who cut his teeth writing for Pocket Gamer. He's now working at iQU, a behavioural knowledge company working in the games sector. I am not a ...