Tag Archives : App Store

Image via CrunchBase The last week of August was a busy time for Apple maybe because it was the silly season and all the journos and bloggers were on the holidays, and maybe because it was HOT, which seems like a funny time to release Snow Leopard. Release it they did and boy oh boy, were we all excited, I threw it on to my machine as quick a lightening, a mere 37 minutes and bam! I was standing [...]

News just in; Apple have actually approved the Spotify app. None of us though it would actually happen. We’re left wondering if iTunes will replace 7digital as media download partners. Watch this space for more info. We believe an official announcement will be made tomorrow.

A couple of weeks ago, the largest 3G wireless operator in USA, Verizon, announced the launch of a new app store: the Widget Bazaar. This storefront is aimed at providing new widgets and applications for its Fios TV clients. Some of Verizon’s partners will develop the apps for now. “From the beginning we said we wanted Fios to be a platform for innovation,” – Shaygan Kheradpir, Verizon [...]

Image by rustybrick via Flickr In its first ever developer conference at San Jose, California, on Tuesday, Verizon Wireless announced its own V cast application store as a direct competitor to Apple and its App Store. The new application is expected to come out in the forth quarter of 2009. The V cast applications store will allow developers all over the world to distribute and monetize [...]

We all know about the world’s most popular smartphone operating system, Symbian. Starting in October, Symbian will provide one of the world’s largest mobile applications (or apps) database. The project is called Horizon and comes in response to Apple’s statement on Tuesday that it’s App Store hit 1.5 billion downloads in just a year. Although many manufacturers, mobile network operators, [...]