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Kevin Rose accidentally reveals that Digg iPhone app is in the works
It sure is hard to keep a secret these days, especially when it happens to be sitting right on your iPhone. In a recent interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Arnt Eriksen slyly asked Rose about a Digg iPhone app he had seen Rose playing with earlier. Rose was genuinely surprised that Eriksen was able […]
Continue reading...Why Palm’s “Open” strategy to take on the iPhone won’t work
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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The app store on the Palm Pre is now open for business, and Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein announced at yesterday’s Palm Developer conference that there are already about 127 apps that have been downloaded a total of 7.5 million times. Now that might seem impressive until you consider that the iPhone app store currently has […]
Continue reading...Windows Marketplace is now live with 34 apps
Monday, October 5, 2009
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Windows Mobile 6.5 phones have started hitting the shelves, and with that, comes the arrival of Windows Marketplace which is up and running with a large selection of 34 apps. To be fair, Windows Marketplace wasn’t officially scheduled to launch until tomorrow, so maybe there’s a boatload of apps in the queue just waiting for […]
Continue reading...How the iPhone App Store resurrected the lone wolf programmer
Monday, October 5, 2009
It’s become pretty trendy, in some tech circles at least, to criticize Apple and its handling of the iTunes app store. Admittedly, Apple’s actions are sometimes confusing, contradictory, and even downright idiotic every now and again. But by and large, and especially given the massive number of apps in the app store, Apple has managed […]
Continue reading...iTunes App Store surpasses 2 billion downloads
Monday, September 28, 2009
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Apple today issued a press release announcing that the iTunes has surpassed over 2 billion downloads to date. CUPERTINO, California—September 28, 2009—Apple today announced that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to the […]
Continue reading...ESPN looks to monetize its iPhone success
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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PaidContent has an interesting article detailing ESPN’s efforts to build on the success of its free ScoreCenter app for the iPhone and branch out into the realm of paid apps. To date, ScoreCenter has been downloaded 2.7 million times, and though ESPN executives were wary that the app might steer users away from their iPhone […]
Continue reading...Apple unveils 3 new iPhone ads [Video]
Monday, September 21, 2009
Yesterday during primetime, Apple unveiled 3 new iPhone ads featuring all new apps, and believe it or not, a new soundtrack to boot. This one is titled Nature even though it features a wide variety of iPhone apps such as iXpenseIt, Daily Finance, Guitar Toolkit, Lonely Planet Mandarin Phrasebook, iBird Explorer Plus, and the always […]
Continue reading...Apple approved over 1300 apps last friday, highest number in months
Monday, September 21, 2009
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This past Friday, Apple cleared out a huge backlog of iPhone apps when it admitted over 1300 apps into the iTunes App Store in one fell swoop, marking the largest single day influx of apps in months. Check out the graph below courtesy of appshopper.
Continue reading...Apple introduces App Store Resource Center
Friday, September 18, 2009
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Apple today emailed developers and let them know of a new initiative called the App Store Resource Center, a one stop shop of sorts for iPhone developers. The App Store Resource Center provides details on how to get started with iTunes Connect, including setting up your account, contract and banking information, what you’ll need to […]
Continue reading...Google posts their reply to FCC inquiry re: Google Voice, claims it was rejected
Friday, September 18, 2009
Google today posted a non-redacted version of their response to the FCC’s investigation regarding the rejection or removal (depending on who you believe) of Google Voice from the iTunes App Store. Contrary to what Apple claims, Google writes that Phil Schiller himself relayed the message over to Google that the app wasn’t going to survive […]
Continue reading...Games on the Zune HD accompanied by pre-roll ads
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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Wow, it certainly is a zune-centric day of posting here, but what can ya do. Well, Microsoft’s latest attempt to take on the iPod launched yesterday in the form of the Zune HD. Notably, the Zune HD experience will not include an app store open to third party developers. Instead, all of the apps available […]
Continue reading...What the “Sony PSP Go” app store application process will look like
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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While it’s become somewhat chic, if not strategic, to bitch and moan about Apple’s app store policies, it might be a good idea to take a step back and see how Sony is planning to do things with its upcoming PSP Go device. All PSP games submitted for Sony’s upcoming portable gaming device will be […]
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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