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Since the launch of the iTunes App Store by Apple in 2008, not another app market has come close to touching the iOS store until now. Or at least that’s the presumption. Apparently, the Android Market is coming close, and may even surpass the sheer number of available apps in Apple’s App Store. The rate…
HipLogic is teaming-up with The Carphone Warehouse in a deal that will see the mobile phone retailer pre-installing *Spark XL on select Android smartphones and tablets it sells — though we don’t know which models this will include. In addition, the popular real-time homescreen app will be available via The Carphone Warehouse’s Walk Out Working…
RIM has spent a lot of time cultivating and justifying Bridge, the Bluetooth pairing process that shares data between a BlackBerry smartphone and the new PlayBook tablet. Though they haven’t opened up that potentially promising mechanism to third-party app developers yet, that hasn’t stopped location-based search app, Poynt, from offering a pairing connection through standard…
So far we’ve seen quite a few app building services but none of them was completely free. Enter appsbar, which is touted as the “first cost-free way for any business or person to create professional, multi-function apps” and get them quickly published in Apple’s AppStore and Google’s Android Market. Anyone can visit appsbar’s website to…
TripIt already has mobile apps for the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry platforms. Now they decided to dedicate some attention to the iPad users and the result is a new app that fully takes advantage of the large screen Apple’s tablet rocks. TripIt for iPad allows users to access all their trip reservations in one place,…
Samsung has announced operator billing for Samsung Apps in 11 countries, including Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Ukraine, Vietnam, India, Thailand and Indonesia. Up until this point users had to use their credit or prepaid cards, or cyber cash to pay for mobile apps. The idea is to make it easier for users to…
If I told you that Apple would take over two-thirds of app market revenues this year, would you be surprised? You shouldn’t be. After all, its app market is much bigger than the Android Market, BlackBerry App World, Windows Phone marketplace and webOS’ app store. Apple has also hit some impressive milestones with the iTunes…
The 7digital Android app is trying to make a bigger dent in the mobile music market by updating the app to include the ability to purchase music over the air. The neat thing about this is that you’ll also be getting a digital locker for the tracks you buy. I downloaded the 7digital Android app…
Warner Bros said it will purchase the makers of the popular Flixster app and the deal will also include popular web properties like Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster’s online presence. The two sites will remain independent, Warner Bros said. If you’ve never checked out the Flixster app, you should if you have any interest in movies.…
The Gigwalk iPhone app just hit beta today and it allows companies big and small to create a mobile workforce for small tasks, or gigs. For example, you could use the Gigwalk iPhone app to task someone to take a picture of a building for your website. The “Gigwalker” near the location you want the…