Apples App Store passed the 10 billion mark with the download of a paper-airplane game that won its U.K. owner a $10,000 iTunes gift card. – The Apple App
Store has passed a new milestone: the download of its 10 billionth application.
Apple, which
has been counting down or rather up to the 11-figure mark, announced Jan. 22
that the application had been downloaded by a U.K. resident, Gail Davis, who
downloaded Paper Glider a game t…
Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users can now view Flash video, thanks to the Skyfire 2.0 app. Unfortunately, its temporarily not available, due to massive demand. – Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners have made their opinions of Adobe
Systems’ Flash technology clear: They want it.
Following the introduction to the Apple App Store of a Skyfire 2.0 app that
acts as an Internet browser than can play Flash video on Apple’s devices,
Skyfire Labs posted an …
Line2 from Toktumi, a VOIP (voice over IP) app for Apple iPhone, delivers outstanding voice quality and good SMS text messaging capability to the iOS smartphone. Leveraging either WiFi or 3G data services to deliver its calling services, Line2 provides a full second mobile telephone line to iPhone users for those all-too-common times when the AT&T network fails to serve and promises unlimited calling and texting within the United States and Canada. Users may find the $10-per-month cost slightly prohibitive, given Line2 service works only on the iPhone, not on a PC, Mac or other device. However, the application is free to download from the Apple App Store and it comes with a 30-day trial to test out the service. Also, Toktumi offers a more complete hosted PBX service to use with multiple devices, with a price starting at $15 a month. To read the full review, check out "Toktumi Line2 Delivers Second Voice and SMS Line to iPhone." Or if you have experience with Line2, share your thoughts at labs.eweek.com. – …
The Android Market for smartphone and tablet applications reached the 100,000 application mark Oct. 25, one week after Apple iOS topped 300,000. Stop the numbers game madness! – News Analysis: Google’s Android developer team tweeted that the maligned Android
Market of software applications built for Android handsets and tablet computers
had reached the 100,000 application mark Oct. 25.
That news via Twitter comes one week after Apple CEO
Steve Jobs said the Apple App…
In celebration of 25 years of reporting all things chic, Elle Magazine has released it Elle App for iPad — now available in the Apple App Store! The application premieres in conjunction with the Oct. 2010 Anniversary issue of Elle — and as an extra treat, editors have pulled together this spoof video of MTV’s [...]
Fring, a provider of voice over IP apps, was slightly overwhelmed, following the release of a two-way calling app allowing iPhone 4 owners to chat face-to-face with friends on various mobile platforms. – Fring has introduced an already popular new app to the Apple App
Store that allows iPhone 4 owners to enjoy two-way video calls over
WiFi or 3G, with friends on older iPhone, Android or Symbian
smartphones.
The app has proven so popular, however, that the Fring Blog waved a white flag, notin…
Adventus Holdings’ unit Adventus Australia has received approval for the SmartCalls application icon to be listed on the Apple App Store.
China Paper Holdings has proposed a renounceable non-underwritten rights issue of up to 349,398,081 new ordinary shares of US$0.04 ($0.056) each in the capital of the company at an issue price of $0.12 for each rights share, on the basis of three rights shares for every five existing ordinary shares of US$0.04 each in the capital of the company.
Keppel Land has used S$75.8 million of the total net proceeds from the rights issue of $700.6 million to fund 25% of the consideration for the site located at Boon Lay/Lakeside Drive in Singapore.
Skype’s latest version of its VOIP application for Apple’s iPhone offers improved call quality and the ability to make calls using the 3G data connection. The app is available now. – Voice over IP (VOIP) provider Skype announced the launch of the latest
version of its iPhone application, currently available to download from the
Apple App Store. The company said this update allows iPhone users to make and
receive Skype-to-Skype calls, and to call mobiles and landlines around t…
Opera announced the mobile version of its Web browser, Opera Mini, has been approved for distribution on Apple’s App Store. Opera Mini fans can now download the app for free onto their iPhone or iPod touch.
– Opera announced its mobile browser, Opera Mini, has been approved
for iPhone and iPod touch on the Apple App Store and will be available
as a free download within 24 hours, depending on the market. Some of
Opera Minis features include Speed Dial, which gives users the ability
to reach their favo…
Opera has finally submitted its Mini for iPhone browser to the App Store, after offering a quick peek at Mobile World Congress but giving few timing details. Correctly guessing when Apple will approve the app could win you a new iPhone.
– Opera Software officially submitted its Opera Mini for iPhone browser to the
Apple App Store March 23.
The Norway-based company introduced the browser at the Mobile World Congress
2010 show, though offered minimal details about an arrival date. As
late as March 19, Opera co-founder Jon von Te…
The latest version of Opera Mini for the iPhone was displayed at the Mobile World Congress 2010 around two months ago.
Now once again Opera is planning to showcase the browser at the CTIA Wireless which is scheduled on March 23. No one was permitted from Opera to capture photos or videos of browser at the [...]
Square Enix has launched the renowned Final Fantasy games for iPhone and iPod Touch phones in the Apple App Store. Hironobu Sakaguchi’s designed Final Fantasy is among the most famous role-playing games that support interesting story with amazing graphics.
Both the Final Fantasy 1 and Final Fantasy 2 will cost you around $8.99 and can be [...]
The Apple iPad already has the medical community intrigued, says a new study, which reports that nearly 20 percent of surveyed clinicians expressed interest in the iPad, while 9 percent plan to scoop one up asap.
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The Apple
iPad, which is scheduled to ship in the March timeframe, will more than
pique the interests of enterprise users, say industry observers. And
according to a Feb. 4 report from Epocrates, which offers a medical application
in the Apple App Store, the medical community is …
Bernstein Research analyst Jeffrey Lindsay said in a research note that the phenomenal success of the iPhone, nearly 10 million units of which will ship through 2009 and whose Apple App Store offers more than 100,000 applications, has forced Google to take actions into its own hands in the smartphone market. Specifically, Google is creating the Nexus One as an unlocked alternative to existing Android phones, such as the successful Motorola Droid, to better challenge Apple’s iPhone dominance. BroadPoint AmTech analyst Ben Schachter sees Google’s move as a disruption in the space.
– The unstoppable success of Apple’s iPhone has pushed Google to create Nexus
One, a smartphone based on the Google Android operating system whose software
and features Google has built from the bottom up on hardware from HTC.
So claims one analyst.
Nexus One, which Google employees are testing, i…
Kicking off with Black Friday, holiday shopping season is now firmly upon us and theres an app for that. The following mobile applications are tailor-made for making one of the more insane times of year a little easier, letting iPhone and iPod Touch users do everything from calculate sales tax on that Xbox 360 to determining whether they can get a better deal on Amazon.com or eBay. Many of these apps also offer budget-watching and list-keeping functionality all the better for staying on track as the holidays rapidly approach.
As with most apps available on the Apple App Store, these are generally low-cost, ranging from free to $0.99 to $1.99, meaning you can devote more cash to the things in life that truly matter, like Modern Warfare 2.
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After a long wait regulators in South Korea have finally approved the iPhone and cleared the way for it to head into the country. KT Corp, the second largest carrier in Korea, plans to start taking orders for the iPhone on November 28.
It comes as no surprise that the Apple App Store is dominating the [...]
The Apple App store is a huge moneymaker for Apple and many of the top application is the store are games. IntoMobile reports that Apple is set to start developing its own games for the iPhone. The company has a job listing for a Game/media Software Engineer with 3-4 years experience.
One of the givens when [...]
The Apple App store has proven to be a huge moneymaker for Apple and many of the developers who are writing software for the app store. As more and more developers, start writing applications for the iPhone the store will become even more important for devs and Apple.
Novell is a well known name in the [...]
News Analyis: Microsoft is saying that its Windows Marketplace for Mobile store should feature applications that are more expensive than those offered in competing stores. That’s a problem both for the software giant and developers. Developers might like the idea of making more money from their mobile applications, However, the Apple App Store has already set the price point with its 99 cent applications. It’s hard to see how Microsoft’s plan to sell applications for $5 or $10 is a formula for success.
– Microsoft’s mobile app store, Windows Marketplace for Mobile, hasn’t
even offered a single application for mobile phones and already it’s
causing a stir. Even worse, it’s making Microsoft look foolish.
At a conference with developers this week,
Microsoft told those on-hand that the 99-cent app…
While we all like to get away from the office, responsibilities and sometimes our families (dont lie to yourself, its true), the digital age has made us more attached than ever to portable devices that allow us to check in with the world around us. Thankfully, Apples iPhone and iPod touch, combined with the ever-growing Apple App Store, also provide travelers with a wide assortment of applications that can help reduce the stress of travel. Heres a look at 10 apps for the Apple iPhone, from language guides to cheap gas station finders, that will help you make the most of your vacation this year.
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