App Store

Apple's App Store just turned one and the company has issued some rather astonishing figures about its pet project, including the fact that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications during the first 365 days of...

Apple's App Store turned one yesterday and the company used the occasion not only to promote some of its most popular applications and games but also to celebrate one of the most successful mobile ventures ever. After one year,...

Nokia, the largest mobile phone manufacturer, might have thought that the (re)launch today of its new App Store, Ovi, was going to be a sinecure but it was proved sorely wrong. We have been trying to use OVI in the UK, in...

Apple has started the celebrations as its App Store nears its one billionth downloaded application milestone. To mark this occasion, the company is planning a new competition. Punters will be enlisted to win a $10,000 iTunes Gift...

Tucked in yesterday's iPhone OS 3.0 event was data Apple released about how the health of the App Store and how the future is shaping up for the mobile platform. Microsoft, Google, Symbian, RIM and Palm now have a mountain to...

Rich Media advertising platform, Mobclix, has released figures that show that the App store has reached nearly 21,000 Apps, out of which roughly 6300 (30 percent) are games. This is roughly 10 times more than the amount of games...

Apple doesn't like competition and it looks as if its iPhone App store is going to get some as three alternative applications stores are set to open shortly at least in the UK. According to the Wall Street Journal, the first...

Mobile application stores seems to be the flavour of this year’s Mobile World Congress, as after Google, the Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia has also unveiled its signature mobile applications store for its wide range of...

O2 will be opening its Litmus apps store which will allow users to cooperate with developers, offer input to various mobile applications at an initial stage of development, and even earn money for trying out the applications...

Rumours are abound that Nokia will be soon joining the league of the device makers which have their own online mobile applications store, according to market sources.  Reports suggest that the Finnish mobile handset giant...

Blogosphere is abuzz with rumours that Apple is on the verge of joining hands with some of the prominent game developers to offer their premium content through its App Store.  The fresh set of rumours claimed that Apple is...

Since its launch around 5 months ago, Apple’s App Store has been a great success story, and the year-end results from Apple have shown that most of the iPod and iPhone users are shifting to gaming and other entertainment...

Google has confessed to using prohibited application programming interfaces (APIs) for developing new voice search for iPhone; yet in spite of that admission the new application is still there on Apple’s App...

Vodafone’s terminals chief has opined that Apple may be allowed to run operator-specific applications on its iPhone and any such application would seem to be offered from its Apple App Stores. The move would offer some...

You could have had a tough time in the 90’s if you were an independent software developer for Nokia or Ericsson smart phones.  Little was known about creating applications for GEOS and EPOC (latterly Symbian) and then...