Breaking news today as PocketGear has just acquired its former competitor Handango in the cross-platform app store. Pocketgear can now claim more software titles that will now make it comparable to Apples App Store in terms of number of applications and size. With PocketGears infrastructure from Samsungs Touch Wiz widget store and Palms Software
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A consortium of a 24 different telecommunication companies have come together to create competition for Apples app store. The companies involved in the maneuver are América Móvil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, KT, Mobilkom Austria Group, MTN Group, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Orascom Telecom, Softbank Mobile, Telecom Italia, Telefónic...
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The most significant announcement at day one of MWC was the formal debut of a formed alliance between 24 mobile operators and device makers to create a Wholesale Applications Community, or a way for the rest of the mobile industry to go head-to-head with the growing power of Apples App Store. The new alliance includes U.S.-based
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Microsofts always surprising. First, CEO Steve Ballmer praises Apples App Store and now another executive said Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)s patent lawsuit against HTC is not necessarily a bad thing. During a speech about copyright last week, Brad Smith, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)s general counsel and senior VP, said the lawsuit can help determine the proper roles patents
Its a headline that will certainly inspire more than just a few double-takes. But the reports are, indeed, true. There are, at this very moment, more books available in Apples App Store than there are games. Its a significant shift of content momentum that has taken place in a surprisingly rapid fashion. This reality represents the
Nokias Ovi Store is growing quickly, with over 6,000 apps and more coming in every day. We already know that the average selling price of Ovi Store apps is less than Apples App Store, which is awesome, but now there are two new reasons to hit up the Ovi Store on your Symbian-powered smartphone. Today, Nokia
Apples App Store Approval Process is often too arbitrary or subjective by half, but no matter how you feel about the latest app rejection to storm the newsfeeds, at least their rationale makes sense: QuackPhone, an app developed by Nick Bonatsakis of Atlantia Software, was rejected for containing minimal user functionality. In other words, the
Apples App Store Porn Police or, perhaps the Puritanical Posse, if you prefer has its work cut out if its to make Steve Jobs new decision stick and ban “overtly sexual apps” on the App Store. As a previous post pointed out, some culling of the filth and froth has already begun, invariably taking down
American Public Radios Marketplace was gracious enough to have me on yesterday to discuss the new 24 telco Wholesale Application Community with Stacey Vanek Smith. Can a coalition agree on standards and deploy them fast enough to keep up with Apples App Store juggernaut, or is this just a play to get trendy, hot ...
Carriers want in on mobile apps. Theyve slowly figured out the value they bring to subscribers, and realize they must leverage the success of Apples App Store to bring the people what they want. Sprint has decided to forgo the normal process of building an app store from the ground-up, and instead has opted to partner with
