“Mobile research firm” Research2Guidance is reporting that the Android Market reached the 500,000 published app milestone this past September. In that month alone, 42,000 new apps were added to the market. Interestingly, some 37% of apps have been deactivated since their launch, leaving some 320,000 active applications. In comparison, there were nearly 460,000 apps in the Apple App store in […]
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HTC acquires Inquisitive Minds, makers of kid-friendly Zoodles
US-based company Inquisitive Minds, the creators of Zoodles (a kid friendly interface and app manager), today announced that it has been acquired by HTC. Today we are excited to announce that we will be joining HTC with the goal of bringing Zoodles to the billion+ children in the world who haven’t yet played and learned with our product. Like Zoodles, […]
RIM offers free apps to customers as recent service interruption compensation
Research In Motion today announced that it will offer its BlackBerry subscribers free applications as compensation for last week’s service interruption. While the outage lasted about a day in the US and a day and a half in Canada, customers in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa experienced service interruptions and delays for up to three days. RIM Co-CEO […]
Apple accidentally confirms iPhone 4S via iTunes
We are only days away from Apple’s iPhone press event but it appears that the latest iTunes beta has confirmed at least one new upcoming iPhone and topic of ongoing rumours. Buried in the code of iTunes 10.5 beta 9’s .plist files are two mentions and embedded images of an “iPhone 4S.” The attached image looks to be that of […]
HP offers six free apps to TouchPad owners
Just over a week ago, HP announced that it was getting out of the webOS device business. Perhaps to soften the blow a bit to its HP TouchPad users, HP yesterday announced that it is offering them six free applications. The applications normally sell for as much as US$14.99 but are now free for a limited time. The apps are: […]
BlackBerry App World tops 1 billion downloads
Just ahead of today’s Research In Motion’s annual stockholder meeting, there is news for RIM to cheer about. The BlackBerry App World, now available in over 100 countries, has now topped one billion downloads and is seeing an average of 3 million downloads per day. While this is a worthy accomplishment, RIM still has ways to go if it wants […]
Zynga acquires Canadian mobile apps developer Five Mobile
Zynga, the company behind games such as Mafia Wars and Cityville, is coming to Canada. The company today announced that it was buying Toronto-based Five Mobile, a mobile applications developer. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Five Mobile, now Zynga Toronto, creates compelling, robust and scalable mobile applications. The team has worked closely with some of the largest […]
Apple App Store tops 15 billion downloads
Apple today announced that over 15 billion apps have now been downloaded from its App Store by more than 200 million iOS device users worldwide. “In just three years, the revolutionary App Store has grown to become the most exciting and successful software marketplace the world has ever seen,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. […]