Posts Tagged ‘Applications’

Apps vs. Games Study

March 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to a study from mPlayit, Android owners seem to be more interested in downloading applications then mobile games. Only 17% of the Android consumers are looking for games.

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Samsung’s Market Survey Results

December 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

With the release of Bada, Samsung also exposed the results of some consumer research they did. Samsung’s survey was held under feature phone owners in France, the UK and Italy.

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MiKandi Launches Naughty App Store

November 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

MiKandi has released a new Android based App Store to compete with the original Android Market. The big differentiator will be adult content as MiKandi promotes anything that is legally allowed.

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SE Lowers Signing Prices

November 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: J2me | 2 Comments »

Developers who want to get on board of SonyEricsson’s PlayNow Arena Fun & Downloads service will now be allowed to get their J2me games signed at Thawte and Verisign.

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DevCon: Age Ratings Coming to BB App World

November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Good news for developers of adult games and applications. RIM is working on an age rating system to allow mature themed content to be sold on BlackBerry App World.

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AppStore Hits 100.000, Officially!

November 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A few weeks ago, we reported that Apple reched 100.000 apps (depending on the counting source). Last night, Apple confirmed they indeed passed the 100.000 line.

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Symbian Launches Ideas Site

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The Symbian Foundation has launched another initiative today called Ideas.Symbian.Org. The website will allow developers to take a look at what people would like to see available.

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Selatra to Push ‘App’ App Stores

October 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Mobile content aggregator Selatra has started to promote their Application focused sales portals toward operators. With this move, the company expects to increase their footprint in the operator market.

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Palm to Change Apps Policy

October 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Coming December, we will see a very interesting update on Palm's WebOS. The company will be allowing apps to be installed from third party channels and will drop the $99 fee for open source apps.

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Samsung to Open Their App Store next Month

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

On Oktober 14th, Samsung will finally be opening up their App Store on which they have been accepting submissions since July. The store will not be serving the total Samsung consumer base though.