Despite Android being developed by Google, searching mobile apps on its App Store has always been a difficult experience for users, who often find it hard to figure out the functions of different applications.

But a new application called Chomp has now been made for Android that will make app search a smooth affair.

Using Chomp, users can either scan through an available app list, or can search for a particular application using keywords. Chomp also has a separate section for paid applications.

The application has a simple interface and for those who don’t like to sift their way through useless search results.

Chomp has a list of search categories such as game, fashion, fitness, Twitter and wallpapers.

It also displays app icons, price and ratings so that users may understand the app better before downloading it.

Chomp is available for iOS as well.

To add more value to its S40 feature phones, Nokia has now added one of its popular social networking applications called Foursquare.

The application keeps track of the user’s location using GPS or AGPS, and shares data with his friends.

Users get badges and earn points by checking into places, so if a user goes to his college more often than his friends, then that user will be tagged as the king of college and will be awarded a badge by the application.

As of now Foursquare is part of the Nokia beta testers labs and will likely soon appear on Ovi Store.

Nokia Symbian S40 users who want to try out this application can download it from Nokia beta labs.

With time, more and more businesses are becoming comfortable with their employees using iPhones or Android phones for work, but are concerned about data security at the same time.

Professionals too worry about using the same smartphone for official and personal use simultaneously as their personal information can be seen by their superiors.

Enterproid, a mobile startup, has now come up with an application that creates a separate business profile section in the phone.

The application opens a separate interface for corporate communications including SMS, email and text messages. The corporate messages are protected by a Password which are accessible to the user and IT departments only.

Personal messages, emails and SMSes are inaccessible to the IT departments.

All the enterprise features such as remote wipe tool and cloud-based device management are also there. The remote tool doesn’t delete the personal messages in the smartphone. The business profile, however, doesn’t get any App store access. The apps downloaded for personal use may be opened manually on the business profile .

The app is aptly named Divide and is available for free as it is a beta version right now. It is likely to adopt a subscription based business model once it comes out of beta.

With proliferation of smartphones, the number of mobile gamers are set to jump by many folds, according to a survey conducted by Mobile analytics firm Flurry.

The survey notes that more people are playing games on their mobiles than on consoles.
The phenomenonal rise in mobile games has also attracted advertisers attention.

The advertisers believe mobile gamers are more likely to respond to advertisements, says Flurry. Just because users are ignoring the banner ads doesn’t mean advertisers have given up, they are working with the developers to actually become a part of the game itself. For example, the extra boost of power needed by gamers may be sponsored by a well known brand.

For the developers it means they can use all possible strategies to monetise their games. They may go for paid downloads, or a few free titles to attract the users, or in App purchases to add levels to their free games.

Nokia today finally announced a new Internet Browser for its Symbian S40 devices. Named as the OVI browser, this will replace the default internet browser on Nokia’s devices running on Symbian S40 operating system.

The new version of the S40 browser includes a whole new look and feel along with the inclusion of Opera browser. Its internet compression technology helps reduce data consumption during browsing and thereby helps in reducing internet usage charges, claimed Nokia.

The new browser will also feature localisation based on countries and will support over 85 different languages used around the globe. Presently the localisation is limited to countries like India, China, Russia and Indonesia but more countries will be added to it soon.

Besides the new browser will also have few smart links, which includes one touch access links for popular websites like Twitter, Facebook, IMDB, Yahoo, Photobucket and Amazon to name a few, and later users can also expect customisation option being available.

Nokia Symbian S40 users who want to download this new browser for their device can access the OVI store directly from their device and get an upgrade for their device.