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Spotify, Android, Apple TV, And The New Appathy

Apps with everything, and apps of every flavor--sounds like a recipe for an interesting technological future. But it's also a change that comes with burdens.READ»

Are You Greener Than Your Facebook Friends? SunReports, a "Speedometer for Solar"

Ironically, most solar power users are somewhat in the dark. Many don't know if their systems are optimized--or even, sometimes, if they're working. SunReports aims to change that, and is working on a Facebook application to enable their users to share their data with others.READ»

Apple's Mac App Store Opens January 6th

Apple's next big step in App Store business, the Mac App Store, will open its doors to consumers on January 6th in nations around the world. READ»

Apple Patenting Phone-to-Phone App Sharing

Apple's latest patent application, revealed today, could add a whole new dimension to the exploding smartphone app market: Phone-to-Phone app sharing, with incentives. READ»

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Palm Refunds Developer Fees, Highlights WebOS Has a Future

Developer's fees to access the tools to build webOS apps for Palm's smartphones are being dropped, according to an official email. More than any other rumor, this confirms HP is serious about Palm's smartphone future. When we learned ...READ»

Apple's App Store Has Netted $429 Million, a Loss-Leader

Apple touts its app store as being one huge advantage for its iPhone and iPad systems over competitor's offerings. And you'd think a store with 200,000-plus articles on sale would be a screaming financial success, yes? Nope. Apple ...READ»

Apple's App Store Gets Its Own Apple Store App--Seriously

Apple's App Store is right now carrying the Apple Store app. If that statement doesn't twist reality up in a Doctor Who style for you, then read on to find out about its iPhone-buying powers (from an iPhone!) and Genius session ...READ»

A Smartphone Payment App? For That There's MasterCard

Piqued by Visa's latest efforts at contactless payment goodness with an iPhone case, MasterCard really wants in on the same game. Only the card for "everything else" wants developers to actually write apps for it, leveraging ...READ»

Ford's Sync Brings the App Revolution to Your Wheels, With Voice Control

Ford's in-car Sync system, which we revealed in detail earlier this month, is already jam-packed with digital cleverness. But now Ford's gone one step further: Not only will it be able to do the usual smartphone voice control tricks ...READ»

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Report: Developers Love Mobile Apps, Dig iPad the Most

We knew the iPad was going to be transformational mostly due to its app experiences and had heard opinions to that effect. Now Flurry finds developers flocking to the iPad at the expense of other platforms ... even the iPhone.Flurry ...READ»

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Apple's iPad Stirring Developer Excitement, At Android's Expense?

Apple's iPad arrives on Saturday, so it's only natural that the tech media's in a fit of excitement about the thing. But so are the platform's developers, and according to some analysis Apple's even distracting devs from other ...READ»

Windows Phone 7 Developer Conditions Leaked: An Apple Clone?

Microsoft's only just announced its months-off revamp to WinMo, now Windows Phone 7, and the SDK release is ages away too. But someone's just leaked the app developer agreement documentation...and revealed it's a lot like ...READ»

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Thunderous Boom in a Perfect Storm of iPad Apps

Here's one in the eye for iPad doubters: According to Flurry's analytical app-developer tracking skills, January saw the single biggest peak in developer activity ever registered in its system. It's the iPad. Flurry's tracking ...READ»

NYC Big Apps Winners Listed

The winners of the NYCBigApps competition are out: Top prizes go to Taxihack, Big Apple Ed, and Wayfinder NYC. And horror of horrors--none of these three is an app specifically for the world's sexiest fruit-flavored smartphone! ...READ»

Internet Sales Marketing Companies and Innovative Software

The most innovative marketing software available for marketing companies today often seems take to take the form of a custom built app that helps businesses connect Internet sales with audiences in Facebook, Twitter LinkedIn or other ...READ»

Amazon Adds Apps to the Kindle, Speeding the Death of E-Readers

Amazon, mere hours after announcing a fairer (if stricter) revenue share for publishers, has pulled another rabbit out of its hat: It's letting developers build apps for the Kindle. Fascinating idea, but can it save the Kindle ...READ»

The Seven Most Expensive iPhone Apps, Starting at $1,000

According to recent calculations, Apple sewed up around 98% of all mobile app downloads in 2009. The App Store is evidently a soaring success, serving up apps for everything. Literally everything. All this demand seems to have ...READ»

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Social Networks Online Marketing Project Management Tools

Sales and marketing professionals who are using social network tools to create a dialogue with customers can link their programs to online marketing project management software to keep program details and customer correspondence ...READ»