Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Core Location SDK, the patented hybrid location system, today released its February report on trends in location-aware apps from Apple's App Store, Google's Android Marketplace and the BlackBerry App World.Continue reading...

Skyhook Wireless, released its July report on trends in location-aware apps from Apple's App Store, Google's Android Marketplace, Blackberry App World, Nokia's Ovi Store, and the Palm App Catalog. The report shows the evolution of LBS app pricing in the two longest running stores, the Android Marketplace and Apple App Store. In both stores, $0.99 is the most popular paid category, and only a handf...

There are many App Stores for mobile devices out there, some are successfull and some suck big-time... Why is that? In this article I will try to analyze 6 of the main App stores out there: Apple App Store, Windows Marketplace, Android Market, Blackberry App World, Nokia Ovi Store, Samsung Application Store and search for the reasons behind their success (or doom!).  Success order (my persona...

The goodness of a particular application is in the thumbs of the user. What I consider a good app you might think is crap, and vice versa. This doesnt apply to gatekeepers like Apple and RIM, though. If they dont want you to see an app in the Apple App Store or Blackberry App World, youll have to find it elsewhere. This is a shame, because these app stores are great places for people to find all s...

Distimo, a Dutch analytics firm, presented their findings on the six largest mobile application stores at Mobile World Congress last week. The apps stores Distimo compared are the iTunes App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Distimos presentation is embedded in their blog. They compared

Apple is nearing the approval of over 100,000 apps for the App Store marking a significant milestone. That number makes the App Store by far and large the biggest of the app offerings on the market. By comparison, the much younger Android market has only 10,000 apps and the Blackberry App World has only 3,040. Disney

Distimo, a Dutch app store analytics firm, recently released some interesting information about the six largest mobile app stores. These include the iTunes App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and...

Canadian Location-based services (LBS) company, Cellflare announced that their Cellflare apps are now available on the Apple App Store, iTunes, as well as the BlackBerry App World. The CellFlare app supports all BlackBerry Devices including the BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Tour, BlackBerry Curve, and BlackBerry Pearl. The Cellflare application uses the GPS system in your mobile device to locate yo...

Distimo, a Dutch app store analytics firm, has finally completed their research on the six major mobile app stores: iTunes App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.  Their findings analyzed store size, store growth, most popular applications, and where you can find the

Since Apple debuted its App Store on iTunes about a year ago, other major mobile phone makers have unveiled their own app stores. Among the phone makers to launch an app store was Blackberry with its App World. The top paid business app on the Blackberry App World for the eight-week straight is called gwabbit. The