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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog Comment Hey David Only apple would hold this control so tightly. I have seen a good use of AIM to send text messages http://db.tidbits.com/article/9690 And yes how annoying is it to have two computers and an iphone with different libraries, apparently you...
[July 17, 2008, 17:13]
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 or have a phone for each computer!
[July 17, 2008, 18:05]
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]
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]
Palm launches its own app store
Blog Comment However, Palm should definitely note the criticism that Apple has come under of late with its App Store. This is further good news for the mobility industry. Increased competition amongst developers can only lead to more and more advanced...
[December 19, 2008, 7:37]
Sun touts Java app store for billion-strong audience
News Sun is to launch a Java application store, chief executive Jonathan Schwartz has revealed. Currently code-named 'Project Vector' but likely to be called the Java Store, it was described by Schwartz as a "network service" that will connect companies...
[May 21, 2009, 12:52]
