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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Android Market passes 30,000 apps – but is the app advantage fading?

Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010 - by mike s

A Google spokesperson has confirmed that there are now officially 30,000 free and paid apps sitting in the Android market ready for your downloading pleasure. Back in December, Google pegged …

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Apple

Developers rage against Apple’s control freakery

Monday, Mar 15, 2010Monday, Mar 15, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 2 Comments.

Tech blogger, co-inventor of XML and former Sun Microsystems bigwig Tim Bray has joined Google’s Android team and served up a scathing attack on Apple’s, “sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Fart stocks collapse as Apple reject Duck App for ‘Minimum User Functionality’ [update]

Tuesday, Mar 2, 2010Saturday, Mar 6, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Vast legions of iPhone fart app developers may be be quaking in their parping shoes today at the news that Apple has just turned down an app because it only …

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Android / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles / Palm / Symbian

App Stores compared: who has the most freebies? Who pays the most?

Thursday, Feb 25, 2010Thursday, Feb 25, 2010 - by Lee J.

App store analytics firm Distimo has been rummaging through every major app store in town, producing an interesting set of comparison figures. Want to know which store has the highest …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

iPhone adult app censorship: Apple’s unconvincing explanation [updated]

Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

As we reported on Sunday, developers have been venting at Apple after the company suddenly removed thousands of adult themed apps from the App Store. Developers were particularly annoyed at …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

App Aware tracks downloading trends for Android Market

Monday, Feb 22, 2010Monday, Feb 22, 2010 - by Lee J.

Tech university ETH University of Zurich, have released AppAware, an interesting new app for the Android platform which tracks downloading trends in the Android Market. Once installed, the program lets …

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Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Prudish Apple goes on App Store moral crusade, censors saucy apps

Sunday, Feb 21, 2010Sunday, Feb 21, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

It seems that the prudish types at Apple are keen to apply their moral values to the App Store, first kicking off the (admittedly rather tawdry) boob-jiggling app Wobble, and …

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Blackberry / mobile apps / mobiles

Four essential Blackberry apps

Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 - by mike s

If Santa slipped a shiny new Blackberry into your festive sack and you haven’t had time to enjoy a good rummage through the offerings in BlackBerry App World, we’ve hand …

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mobile apps / mobiles / Palm

Palm discuss App Store spam – we like their response

Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 - by mike s

We’ve long been unimpressed with Apple’s power-mad policies which leaves the company in sole control of what can and can not be admitted into their hallowed app store, but even …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Android Market hits the 20,000 app milestone

Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009 - by Lee J.

The Android Marketplace has jogged up and high-fived an impressive milestone, notching up no less than 20,000 apps which are now available for downloading. Well, we say 20,000 but it …

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Android / Blackberry / mobile apps / mobiles / Symbian / Windows Mobile

Orange rolls out multi-platform App Store

Wednesday, Dec 9, 2009 - by Lee J.

Telecoms firm Orange has launched its vrey own App Shop, which is available now for over-the-air downloads to around one million customers in the UK and France. The App Shop …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

iPhone Facebook dev quits in protest over App Store policies

Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

We’ve long rallied against Apple’s confusing, frustrating and at times draconian and moralistic app approval policies, so we were more than interested to note that the developer of one of …

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