And it has made close to $1 billion in revenue from app sales. Its dominant spot in the smartphone and tablet industries looks more secure than ever.READ»
Amazon's bid to earn money by making an Apple-like curated version of the Android Marketplace seems like a potential winner for Android users. But according to a prominent game-developer association, Amazon may be applying unfair restrictions to software partners.READ»
Amazon just revealed its own specially curated version of the Android Marketplace, and has chosen to label it the "Appstore." Apple is now suing Amazon for trademark violation. READ»
Apple's app store may be market-leading, but Google's Android system is fast closing in, thanks to the sheer number of different Android phones on sale. But is Android's app market actually a safe or successful place under Google's ...READ»
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»
We've heard rumors that Apple is trying to make its services more social-net-centric, and we know that the App Store needs a bit of an overhaul if it's to remain vital and easily navigable. But Mashable points us to an App Store ...READ»
Acer, sensing the end of the netbook phenomenon, is to release its own tablet PC, app store, and e-reader sometime this year. Leaping aboard these crowded tech bandwagons will certainly diversify Acer's business, but might be a bad ...READ»
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»
Intel's boss Paul Otellini has now revealed what may be Intel's biggest secret weapon in the battle for PC dominance this year: An App Store. It's called Intel AppUp Center, and it's now open as a beta test version. READ»
Predictions about how industries will progress are two a penny, but when they come from Venture Capitalists rather than analysts, and concern the multi-billion dollar cell phone industry, they tend to land with a splash. Early-stage ...READ»
We understand how Apple's insanely successful App Store has inspired many copycats in the smartphone industry, and even beyond. But here's a bit of a head-scratcher: Google Wave, the company's new Internet conversation aggregator, is ...READ»
In April Apple announced that a billion apps had been downloaded from its iTunes App Store. Now, 14 months since the Store's launch, the folks at Cupertino have revealed that another billion apps have zipped over the ...READ»
The App Stores War is getting a lot more interesting: Palm, it seems, is paying serious cash to app developers, while Microsoft has resorted to placing ads for developers in iPhone Apps. All to beat Apple.READ»
Samsung's a big player in the smartphone game, some might say surprisingly so since it's not really grappled the whole smartphone apps-equals-success meme. Until now that is: Its TouchWiz software development kit is out. And it's... ...READ»
Palm just waved its magic wand and abracadabra'd the Mojo Software Development Kit into public reality. It's the software that developers have been waiting for, and it could turn the Pre into something much more interesting.
Palm ...READ»
There's a strong rumor this morning that Sony's busy prepping a discrete part of the PlayStation Store for new games and apps that'll be directed at the PSP and PSP Go. Sounds like Sony's also jumping on the App Store ...READ»
Apple just dropped the official statistics on the iTunes App Store's first year in business, and they're astonishing, on all sorts of scales. Turns out over 1.5 billion apps have been downloaded by iPhone users across the ...READ»
Verizon just announced the launch its own app store for smartphones, inspired by the iTunes Store, Windows Marketplace, Ovi Store, and those for Android and Palm. But Verizon's apps will be locked exclusively to its own store.
It's ...READ»
