App farmer forces increased iTunes security

The developer of an alternative e-book reader for Apple's iOS devices has slammed Apple for forcing it to remove his app from the iTunes App Store. BeamItDown Software - creator of the popular iFlowReader e-book app - claims that...

Google’s Android operating system now offers more free mobile applications than Apple’s App Store for iOS devices.Google’s Android Market has more than 134,342 free apps available for download while the iTunes...

Google’s Android Market is set to host more apps than Apple’s iTunes App Store by July, a new study has found.According to the data released by mobile analytics firm Distimo, in the next two months, Google’s...

Later today Google will unveil its tablet-centric operating system Android 3.0 Honeycomb but rumour has it the search engine giant has a few unexpected tricks up its sleeve. Android and Me says it has been having a dig around...

Apple has launched an App Store account on Twitter and it has managed to get more than 83,000 followers in less than 15 hours, which is more than the other unofficial App Store Twitter account. In comparison, the five other...

The Apple App Store is likely to reach the 10 billion download milestone on Saturday at 1300 UK time (or Noon GMT) according to our calculations. Apps are currently downloaded at the rate of around 238 per second and the...

Possibly the most important announcement by Steve Jobs yesterday during the "Back to Mac" event was the launch of a new Mac App Store which is the equivalent of what mobile users already know. The App Store for the iPod Touch,...

Apple's iTunes App Store now has more than 300,000 applications for download, according to data released by mobile ad exchange network Mobclix. The news was first reported by VentureBeat, which said that, according to Mobclix,...

Apple has approved two new applications, developed by rival OS maker Google, for its iTunes App Store.The Cupertino-based consumer electronics giant has approved the GV Connect and GV Mobile+ for its iOS range of devices...

Yesterday, Apple's popular App Store turned two and has radically changed the way smartphone users interface with their handsets and has sparked a a scramble from Apple's competitors to create something as exciting.At the last...

Opera Mini Browser for iPhone has become the most downloaded application on Apple's App store with more than one million certified downloads in its first day of availability on the 22 featured Apple App stores. By this afternoon...

In what could be seen as a rather classic example of the willy-nilly management by Apple in handling infringement complaints surrounding its App Store, an iPhone app-developer is grumbling about the way the company dealt with him...

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...

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...