Not only for Christmas, but also for New Year's Eve a lot of fun and helpful apps have been developed, waiting to carry you over into the New Year.

Mobile Banking apps as convenient solutions for conducting banking business offer great potential. But still, these apps aren't fully perfected and banks have work to do to protect customer data on the mobile devices.

The Creating Apps team wishes all of you a Merry Christmas! Have happy celebrations, refreshing silence or productive coding, whatever you prefer. Enjoy the season's holidays.

It won't take much longer until Christmas is here and we all are getting ready for the festivities. And so can the smartphones. A vast amount of Christmas apps are on the market, making even your mobile prepared for the "silent" time of the year.

While HP is considering whether to sell webOS and Oracle contemplating whether it should be the buyer, Mozilla plans the launch of their very own web-based mobile OS called Boot 2 Gecko (B2G).

A good app does not necessarily have to be a super serious productivity booster. Sometimes it is all about a little fun and entertainment. This month's featured app addresses the diversion element, but adds a little brain exercise and spices it up with a bit of competition. "The World's Ultimate Brain" is a plain intelligence test in a nice graphic package connected to a scoreboard to trigger your sense for competition.

Have you ever wished your phone would change settings automatically depending on your location, daytime or weekday? Like going into silent mode when you enter the office or turning off unnecessary drainers when running low on battery? One of our Creating Apps users has come up with an app that does just that and we decided to have a look at it.

Sport apps are on the run. No matter if professionals or amateurs, smartphone users more and more tend to use apps to support their training. Runtastic or Sports Tracker are among the most known apps for tracking and collecting training units for different sorts of sports available for almost all mobile operating systems. Nevertheless, there are also some other less well known but comparable sport apps like the free Endomondo sports tracker app, which I tested personally for about two weeks.

As we have reported before, the Malware-risk on Android went up considerably in the last months. Now, McAfee published a report referring to the Google system as the "most attacked mobile operating system". But other platforms are also not safe from these ills, an info graphic by digital security competitor BullGuard, illustrates.

Fring announced a new feature coming to Fring, the group video function. Up to four participants will be able to video chat on the iPhone screen. A limited beta version is now being tested and a limited number of users can take part, so sign up and try it.

At Mobile World Congress BoxTone presented their free tools to instrument your mobile apps fast!