Mobile Industry News 1/4/10

Online Media Daily: AppMakr To Make Anyone An iPhone App-Builder
MediaPost | Online Media News
Where developing iPhone apps can typically cost upward of $10,000 and take weeks or months to build, AppMakr promises to deliver a quality app in less than an hour for only $199. Users of the online service, formally launched today, enter a site Web site address or keywords and get back a sample iPhone app built with that content in less than 30 seconds, according to PointAbout.
 
Flurry And comScore Partner On App Audience Measurement
mocoNews
Fresh off its merger with fellow app analytics provider Pinch Media, Flurry has struck an alliance with comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) on a joint mobile audience measurement service. The joint service, which will be sold through comScore and its affiliates, is meant to capitalize on the rapid pace of mobile ad growth expected in 2010. In large part, that growth is being driven by wider adoption of mobile apps across the iPhone, Android and Blackberry.
 
Frost Predicts Mobile Payments Drive
Mobile Marketing Magazine
The growing diversity of alternative payment methods suggests the stakeholders are scrambling to establish a lead in preferred payment form. The telecommunications and financial and payment industries are leading the drive to implement smart card technology that will transform users’ payment habits.
 
How the Mobile Decade will change marketing, media and commerce
Mobile Marketer
The nation stands today at a pivotal point where mobile will soon infuse every marketing, media and retail decision just as the Internet did in the last ten years. The Mobile Decade is upon us.