app stores

This Week In Bots: Extra-Terrestrial Aircraft, Telepresence Cat-Stroking, And Robot App Stores

2012's truly up and running now. Will it be the year of the robot? Let's check out some early developments in the field.READ MORE›

App Stores Will Be $4 Billion Business This Year

A new report illuminates how Apple, Google, RIM, and Nokia will battle for the top spot in this lucrative market.READ MORE›

Apps to Explode to $38 Billion Market by 2015

According to a new report by Forrester Research, the app market will explode to a $38 billion industry by 2015, riding the huge growth in popularity of mobile devices from smartphones to tablets to whatever Apple dreams up next.READ MORE›

App Store Politics: Dictatorship Versus Democracy

Two big announcements this week will change the way you get software on your desktop and in your web browser. Apple's Apps for Mac you may know about. But Mozilla (developers of the Firefox browser) also revealed plans for its webapp store.READ MORE›

Verizon's Separate App Store Explained: Still Not Necessary

Verizon's own V CAST app store for Android is not very hotly anticipated, but the company's going full-steam ahead anyway. So what does it have to offer that the regular Android Market doesn't?READ MORE›

Infographic: Our App-Happy World

Mobile apps have taken over the world. So it's only fitting that we take a look at the current state of mobile apps with this colorful, informative infographic.READ MORE›

Why App Stores Are Not the Business Model for the 21st Century

Apple's App Store has been a runaway success, but Farhad Manjoo warns its growing rank of copycats that it's not the business model for the 21st century.READ MORE›

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