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Microsoft offers details on forthcoming app store
News Microsoft on Wednesday offered up more details on its would-be rival to the iPhone's app store. The software maker said it will charge developers $99 (£72) a year, plus $99 for each application they submit to get an app into the Windows Marketplace...
[March 12, 2009, 8:15]
Windows app store extended to existing models
News The application store, a rival to Apple's iPhone App Store, Nokia's Ovi Store and the Android Market, was initially usable only on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones. By the end of 2009, the application store will be accessible using Windows Mobile 6.0 and...
[July 15, 2009, 14:00]
Apple details App Store approval process
News Apple has broken its silence over how its App Store approval process works, in answer to queries from the US Federal Communications Commission. On Friday, Apple published its answers to a series of questions posed by the FCC regarding the App Store...
[August 24, 2009, 15:50]
Google admits flouting Apple App Store rules
News Under the original terms of the SDK, applications using such techniques are not supposed to make it through to the App Store. As a result, other developers who played strictly by the SDK rules would not have felt it possible to create an...
[November 26, 2008, 9:57]
Inside the BlackBerry app store
News On Monday, Research in Motion opened up the submission process for its Application Storefront, through which third-party software for the BlackBerry can be sold to the public by its developers — the handset maker's answer to the iPhone App Store...
[January 27, 2009, 16:21]
Palm launches its own app store
Blog Bringing it in line with rivals such as Apple, Android and (soon) RIM, Palm has unveiled a new, mobile-based app store. It already had a desktop-based app store, obviously, but not one that allowed software to be downloaded straight to the handset.
[December 17, 2008, 11:32]
The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog I'd love to say that the quality of Apps on the Apple App store is so superior to those made for jailbroken iPhones that no one would bother jailbreaking anymore. While a few of the apps are quite polished a lot are on par with their jailbreak...
[July 17, 2008, 16:00]
BlackBerry app store open for submissions
News RIM announced back in October that it would be launching an app store in March of this year, a move that will bring it in line with rivals such as Apple, Google and Palm, each of whom has or is about to launch their own on-device app stores.
[January 21, 2009, 15:13]
RIM names third-party software store BlackBerry App World
Blog After David Meyer’s recent Q&A on ZDNet.co.uk with Mike Kirkup, RIM's head of developer relations, there is news today that the company has officially named its app store as BlackBerry App World. Developers with an interest in trying to trying to...
[March 5, 2009, 11:16]
Cross platform app store?
Talkback Obviously there are more windows mobile applications than any other mobile platform out there just seems strange nothing competing with the iPhone app store has been launched. I'm wondering when a 'cross platform mobile' application market will be...
[September 2, 2008, 15:17]
Vodafone to open cross-platform app store
News Vodafone will open up its network interfaces to developers in a bid to create an app store for web applications that run across a variety of mobile platforms. There are two trends at the moment: apps which run natively in the operating system...
[May 12, 2009, 17:36]
RIM names BlackBerry app store, gives pricing
News Research In Motion has given a name to its on-phone application store: BlackBerry App World. RIM opened up submissions for its on-device app store and PC-based Storefront app store in January. BlackBerry App World is RIM's answer to Apple's iPhone...
[March 5, 2009, 12:51]
The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog Comment I have no real world knowledge of the i phone, but.would it not be possible to divorce the i phone from apple, meaning of course no more updates, but surely alternative ones would become available. As for the unloclocking of the i phone being...
[July 19, 2008, 22:36]
The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog Comment What is illegal is some apps maybe direct pirate copies of app store apps or infringe copyright or IP. apparently it isn't illegal to jailbreak your iphone - it is your property but it is illegal to teach others how to do it - go figure.
[July 21, 2008, 10:31]
The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog Comment Ok, the apple thing makes sense now. As for 4 OD, I remember that when it came to the uninstalation, it went kicking and screaming, and tried to leave the k service behind! When 4 OD was on my rig, the BBC i player would ask permission to run the k...
[July 22, 2008, 20:42]
The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog Comment Thats just pure cheek! Sometimes I get the impression that after the hard slog in their infancy, having to always be nice and put the customer first, that some of these huge corps know and even enjoy treating customers with contempt.
[July 23, 2008, 21:51]
The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog Comment I don't see as treating customers with contempt. I see it as a combination of ignorance, incompetence and arrogance. It is evident with a lot of big corps especially when entering a new area they have no experience in.
[July 25, 2008, 10:10]
The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog Comment If it is a streaming service you do not store a large amount of data on your system at any one time and so I imagine there is nothing for you to be hosting or sharing when you are not streaming a video.
[July 22, 2008, 9:24]
The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog Comment MobileMe - what a mess - my contacts are all different on my three machines. It supposed to work now, I am told to build the core database on line but its not the simplicity one expects from apple. Answer get one Mac, one Phone ?
[July 17, 2008, 17:06]
The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog Comment Hi David. Was just in the middle of a reply and the hard drive on my test rig failed! I was expecting it after six years though. So now i m up and running again with a bigger drive. Great fun it was to, it s a laptop, and whilst I could get get a...
[July 27, 2008, 16:59]
