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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]
Microsoft launches Windows Mobile app contest
News It will be the distribution nexus for free and premium Windows Mobile applications that is similar in concept to Apple's iTunes App Store, Google's Android Market and RIM's BlackBerry App World. In contrast, Google's first Android Developer...
[July 28, 2009, 8:35]
Analyst: Build apps for platforms other than iPhone
News But pay close attention to other stores like BlackBerry App World, Android Market, Windows Marketplace for Mobile and Nokia's Ovi store. Companies that are considering developing an iPhone app as a brand or service marketing vehicle are being...
[May 19, 2009, 15:55]
Nokia boosts comms platform with Oz purchase
News Like Apple's App store, Android also has a marketplace in which third-party developers can distribute applications for Android phones. Meanwhile, Nokia is facing competition from new entrants in the mobile market, such as Apple, with the iPhone...
[October 1, 2008, 9:38]
Motorola Droid Drops Today: Happy Droid Day America!
Blog Compared to the thriving Apple App Store and iTunes platform, the novelty of an Android App Store seemingly falls flat, but in all fairness the Android community is still very young. If you’re wondering what all of the buzz is about with words like...
[November 6, 2009, 15:14]
Touch-centric Windows phones go on sale
News As Microsoft looks to the consumer market, Cozza said that in the enterprise market, the iPhone is catching up with Windows Mobile, and Android is lined up to do the same in the long term. Rival app stores for Google's Android and Apple's iPhone...
[October 6, 2009, 16:36]
Vodafone 360 to debut on first LiMo handset
News There is clearly enormous activity around building social connectivity into mobile phones," he pointed out, noting that iPhone, Palm, HTC, Nokia, Android and Motorola all offer phones with some form of social-network aggregation.
[September 24, 2009, 17:50]
Coders to profit as Android Market opens
News Google officially opened its Android Market on Wednesday and promised that, beginning next year, programmers will get the lion's share of revenue from applications sold on the download site for the company's mobile-phone operating system.
[October 23, 2008, 8:21]
Paid-for Android apps come to the UK
News Previously, only free apps could be made available through the Android Market app store. Speaking at an Android developer event, Regan Whitehead, mobile internet category manager at T-Mobile UK, said: "When [users] click on the Android Marketplace...
[March 12, 2009, 7:29]
HP considering Android for netbooks, says report
News Laurent Lachal, the open-source research director at Ovum, believes Android could reverse this trend, especially as the Android software finds its way onto more mobile phones and Google's Android application store, known as Android Market, builds...
[April 1, 2009, 9:00]
Developers: Android apps need marketing boost
News Comparing Android with Apple's iTunes and mobile App Store, he said: "There are screenshots, tons of text space, room for marketing images, and the ability to window shop from any computer with iTunes, purchase an app and later install it on your...
[September 15, 2009, 16:23]
BlackBerry app store open for submissions
News However, it is not yet clear precisely how much control RIM intends to exercise over which applications are chosen for listing — the closest points of comparison being the iPhone App Store, over which Apple retains control, and the Android Market...
[January 21, 2009, 15:13]
Microsoft prepares smartphone challenge to Apple
News And several competitors, including Android and RIM, are launching their own version of an application store. While this business model worked fine just a couple of years ago, it is difficult to justify now given that device makers can get free...
[February 10, 2009, 9:50]
Nokia announces Ovi application store
News Google launched one for its Android phones and Research In Motion plans to have one up and running for its BlackBerry devices. Nokia is taking on smartphone rival Apple with its own version of an application store.
[February 16, 2009, 12:36]
Google Chrome OS takes shine off Windows
Leader By announcing Chrome OS a year in advance, Google has effectively reset the clock on Linux on the netbook and given Ubuntu and its own Android a bad case of the Osborne Effect. The iPhone App Store has created an enormous market from scratch, again...
[July 8, 2009, 15:01]
Symbian's mission to woo North America
News And developers will get to keep all their revenue, rather than giving Apple a 30 percent cut of iPhone applications or the carrier a similar percentage for Android applications. Call it the 'app mall', as compared to Apple's App Store; Symbian...
[December 5, 2008, 9:45]
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]
RIM names BlackBerry app store, gives pricing
News BlackBerry App World is RIM's answer to Apple's iPhone App Store, Google's Android Market and Palm's Software Store. Research In Motion has given a name to its on-phone application store: BlackBerry App World.
[March 5, 2009, 12:51]
Cross platform app store?
Talkback Seems like an obvious choice with http://windows.MobileAppStore.net or http://android.MobileAppStore.net or http://iphone.MobileAppStore.net etc etc. Obviously there are more windows mobile applications than any other mobile platform out there...
[September 2, 2008, 15:17]
RIM names third-party software store BlackBerry App World
Blog Without starting the whole Google Android debate again, RIM seems pretty unphased by the rest of the market including the iPhone. After David Meyer’s recent Q&A on ZDNet.co.uk with Mike Kirkup, RIM's head of developer relations, there is news today...
[March 5, 2009, 11:16]
