BROWSING: app store

Amazon.com's curated Android Appstore has been some time in the making – it opened to developers a few months ago, and we're assured it will be seeing a public launch "very soon." In the meantime, Amazon.com has obviously been wining and dining the app royalty of this world, and as a result has scored a pretty hefty coup.

Google Inc. has had something of an uphill battle on its hands with the Android Market. Although it is now comparable to Apple Inc.'s gargantuan App Store in terms of raw number of apps, it has been plagued with issues that wouldn't crop up in Apple's heavily-regulated outlet.

The openness of Android is what many people love so much about the mobile OS - you can run your own code on it, customise it however you see fit, and generally tinker about much more so than you can with it's competitors. The Android Market is open too - anybody can put an App on there and wait to start raking in the cash.

Focus Taiwan | February 22, 2011 | Jeffrey Wu Taipei, Feb. 22 (CNA) HTC Corp., the world's fifth-largest smartphone maker, plans to build an open platform for mobile video content on its smartphones and tablet PCs to create new value and strengthen ties with its...

The app store battle that used to rage between Apple Inc. and Google Inc. appears to have finally cooled down, with both parties seemingly happy that they have a huge enough catalogue of apps to satisfy even the most voracious smart phone user. However, some of the app distribution platforms on other systems leave a lot to be desired.

Today at the Guggenheim Museum in a snowy, cold New York, the re-animated corpse of Rupert Murdoch and Apple's Eddy Cue launched their iPad-only newspaper, The Daily.

By Tiernan Ray Shares of Sky-Mobi (MOBI), a Chinese “App Store” for mobile devices based in Hangzhou, is struggling in its first day out of the gate: the stock priced at $8, at the low end of a projected $8 to $10...

It's been exactly two months since Apple Inc. acquiesced and approved a third-party Google Voice app for the iPhone, but now there's finally an official offering from Google Inc. The new Google Voice app, which made its debut on the App Store yesterday, is simpler...

Google Inc.'s CEO Eric Schmidt gave a wide ranging interview at the Web 2.0 Summit 2010 in San Francisco this week, but he spent most of the time talking about mobile. While showing off a "Nexus S" device, Schmidt offered some thoughts on near...

Apple Inc. (AAPL) has rolled out an iOS 4.2 update that finally brings the latest features in iOS to iPad users. For starters, iPad users can finally enjoy background processing, multitasking and folders. But there are two key new features — AirPrint and AirPlay —...

Citigroup Inc. (C) has publicly disclosed a security flaw in its iPhone banking app. While the disclosure is clearly the right move, it also shines a light on some weaknesses in mobile banking that might not bode well for the industry in at least the near term.

Facebook wants to reduce the “signal to noise” ratio in your mobile life according to the firm’s head of mobile products, Eric Tseng.

It would seem that the word "Android" pops up everywhere nowadays. It’s the in word when it comes to anything mobile related, a true challenger to the iPhone throne as king of the smartphone heap, so it is perhaps a little surprising that its creator, Google, seems to have been unwittingly holding it back from even greater glory.

Apple is well known for its “hear no evil, see no evil” attitude when it comes to its own products, but the Cupertino company came as close as it probably ever will to admitting a problem when it kicked a hacker out of its App Store this weekend.

Tawkon, an innovative Israeli firm which has come up with an app of the same name to monitor and analyze cell radiation so users can “talk on” as usual and receive smart prompts to avoid radiation just when they need to.

Today Microsoft revealed the policies governing the marketplace on its upcoming Windows Phone 7 series devices via a post on its Windows Team blog. Amongst the announcements, no adult content allowed.