User Experience is ALL that Matters
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... App distribution options and ease of install for the customer: Apple users have been bitching about using iTunes to install iPhone software. If they had any idea what it's like with other platforms, they'd shut it. While iTunes as an app store feels wrong and stupid and lame and stupid to me, at least iTunes is an app everybody has nowadays (aight - not everybody, but many, and that's good enough). Not that it matters much - with the introduction of Apple's App Store, you can browse apps on your phone, pay for, and install them without having to do ...

Obama and Biden Unleash iPhone App
textually.org — You can download an Obama/Biden ‘08 iPhone application on the iTunes store. It has campaign news, an Election Day ticker, donate button and plenty of other information. You can even call your friends to get the word out. [via gearfuse] ...

5 great ways to follow apps on the App Store
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop — ... If you're looking for updated apps, Pinch Media has the perfect RSS feed for you. It scans for all apps with recent version changes. Let this feed help you decide when that Application you held off buying really is worth the money after its update. 5. Apple's App Store Roundup Discover new, free and top Apps directly from Apple's site. This interactive browser lets you quickly scan through top items in a number of categories. You can't just scan through a list the way you do with the other pages and feeds, but it gives you a nice, clean overview of what's new and hot on ...

Top iPhone Applications for Attorneys
The Mac Lawyer — ... Of course, you can find out more about these applications at the links above or by visiting the Apple App Store.  My readers are also invited to submit comments with their own favorite iPhone apps. ...

Obama campaigning on the Xbox 360. http://tinyurl.com/4dhj4c
Politweets — ... from Spaz in reply to Mr_Nutty Big Fish Games is #27 on the list of startup companies best suited to weather the current economic meltdown. http://tinyurl.com/4elo42 01:52 PM October 10, 2008 from Spaz Correction: Hidden Expedition: Everest. Hidden Expedition: Everett would be REALLY freakin' boring. :P 09:52 AM October 10, 2008 from Spaz Big Fish Game's Hidden Expedition: Everett is currently #5 on the top 10 iPhone apps. http://www.apple.com/iphone... 09:50 AM October 10, 2008 from Spaz @ ...

Mocha VNC and G.ho.st: Mobile Access to Your Desktop [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... I’ve been as enchanted with the mix of goofy and useful applications from the iTunes App Store as anyone else. Initially, I sought to find and install the mobile counterparts of my desktop and web-based applications - ...

Three Places To Shop For Android Apps? How Confusing!
ReadWriteWeb — ... and oranges. Apple manufactures both the hardware and the software for the iPhone, whereas Google only provides the mobile OS itself. A more apt comparison would be to compare Android to Windows Mobile. And given the rise of multiple sites for Android apps, that comparison is now more applicable than ever. The Official Store: Google Android Market Of course, the main source for finding new Android apps is the official Google Android Market. Similar to Apple's App Store, this site currently features around 50 applications for Android phones. We've ...

LivingSocial Debuts iPhone App for Mobile Reviews
Mashable! — ... is a social discovery and cataloging network that allows people to review and share their favorite books, movies, television, music, games, restaurants and beer (yes, beer). They’ve just released a free new iPhone app that will make it easier for their almost 7 million users to access their catalog of almost 100 million items. The app also provides real-time reviewing of any item from anywhere and upload photos of favorite items from anywhere. Also, members can access friend’s profiles and catalogued items while shopping to get ...

BrowserMedia releases iPhone app for LivingSocial
901am — ... BrowserMedia worked closely with the LivingSocial team to develop an iPhone application front-end to their existing social networking platform. Features of the application include account integration via webservices, the ability to review, rate and share, the ability to take and upload photographs, the ability to search and browse reviews, integrated recommendations, and the ability to browse friend profiles and review feeds. ...

BlackBerry Storm to Verizon, Bold to AT&T
dailywireless.org — ... The launch of the phone comes just three weeks after RIM released the BlackBerry Bold through AT&T. The keypad-based Bold is now effectively available for free through Wal-Mart after a $200 rebate discounting the entire cost. The Storm will have a 3.2 inch screen, built-in GPS, touchscreen navigation, media player, 3.2 megapixel camera, video recording capability and access to an Application Center along the lines of iPhone’s App Store or Google’s Android marketplace. The Storm will ...

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary For iPhone And iPod Touch
Apple iPhone Blog — ... Paragon Software Group has launched Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition for iPhone and iPod touch. The dictionary is now available on the App Store. ...

Apple of Our Ear: Google's Voice Search App Finally Live
Google Watch — After much speculation about why Apple did not post the new version of the Google Mobile App for iPhone that lets users search via voice and location on its Web site, the app has finally passed muster late Monday. Google said you may now download it for free here from the Google Mobile site, or you can download the app from the iPhone App Store by searching for "Google Mobile App." Considering Apple stalled and made such a fiasco about launching this after Google pre-announced it Friday, why would anyone go to Apple to "search" for ...

New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps
Bits — ... with radar-toting police officers through the application or on each company’s Web site. Eagle-eyed motorists using either application can also contribute information on the location of newly spotted speed traps from the road with a couple of taps on the iPhone. Then, using the iPhone’s GPS location detection, the applications warn drivers when they are approaching known or reported traps. NMobile and Trapster join the 8,000-plus offerings currently available for download in Apple’s iPhone Application Store , ranging from the practical to the silly. For example, ...

Nimbuzz releases free iPhone app for calling and messaging
901am — ... has released its free iPhone application that lets users call, chat and message, for free, with their friends on virtually all major instant messaging communities and social networks. The appllication can be downloaded at the Apple iPhone App Store. ...

GBTV #471 | 10 Favorite Things from 2008
GeekBrief.TV — Shownotes: Brief #471 is my Top 10 Favorite Things List for 2008. 10) Bacon Salt 9) Dell Crystal Display 8) MacBook & MacBook Pro Glass Trackpad 7) Drobo Firewire 800 6) Hulu 5) Griffin Simplifi 4) Boxee on Apple TV 3) App Store 2) Neat Receipts 1) Canon EOS 5D Mark II Direct Download Links Small | Medium | Extra Large | ...

Cellphone Forecast: Not So 'Stormy'
Internet Evolution: — ... programs because there are so many online stores. Apple's iTunes App Store is obviously a poster child for an online store -- except that Apple has somewhat ...

Joost now available on iPhone, iPod touch
Macsimum News — ... —the Flash-based, global web video service—has launched a Joost application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The new free application is available through Apple’s App Store and enables iPhone and iPod touch users to enjoy anime, comedy, drama, movies, music, documentaries, sci-fi and sports over their Wi-Fi connections.  ...

Joost IPTV Comes To iPhone, iPod Touch
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... Touch. The application is free and is available through Apple's App Store, which is making the flash-based service available along with a slew of documentaries, movies, music, and sports. The application is supported by ads. "Offering Joost on the iPhone and iPod Touch is an important step for Joost as we endeavor to offer users premium entertainment where they want it and when they want it," Joost CEO Mike Volpi said in a statement. Volpi said users can view Joost in a variety of ways, including by selecting "most popular" videos, browsing by category, and searching for ...

Amazon.com Invades the Apple App Store
Bits — Amazon.com will join the iPhone frenzy on Wednesday with a new application available free for download through Apple’s App Store . The software is relatively straightforward, offering a way for iPhone or iPod Touch owners to browse through all the products offered by Amazon.com, as well as by third-party retailers like Target and Macy’s that make their products available online through Amazon. There is, however, one unusual and noteworthy aspect of the app called Amazon Remembers, which Amazon is calling “experimental.” The tool lets users take a photograph of any product they ...

iPhone e iPod arrivano le applicazioni per Natale
P@ssioneMobile — ... Per accompagnarci verso le festività sono state create alcune simpatiche applicazioni per iPhone e iPod touch… ...

Video Recording on my iPhone… or very nearly (thank you 12seconds)
LIVEdigitally — ... from 12seconds.  Impartiality is severely dented, if not discarded outright. Today 12seconds.tv has done a few cool things: 1. They’ve re-designed their website - cool new look and feel, with a strong focus on video consumption 2. They’ve concluded their invite-only Alpha phase and opened up in a public Beta where anyone can register and use the site 3. They’ve had their iPhone application approved and launched in the iTunes App Store (for $0.99) I’m happy for their progress from Alpha to Beta, and ...

Top 10 Digital Media Products of 2008
ReadWriteWeb — ... The real upgrade to the iPhone this year wasn't the iPhone 3G but the accompanying App Store. Launched just five months ago, the store now offers over 10,000 third-party apps, and Apple has seen over 300 million downloads. Part of that success can be attributed to the way in which the iPhone as a platform has galvanized developers; a second major factor is ...

Little apps I like for the iPhone
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... down from the big computer versions, but has excellent graphics, location awareness, and does the math to tell you what is visible at the moment and what is not. It is an impressive way to explore the universe above you. Distant Suns is $5.99 and well worth it. TUAWLittle apps I like for the iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...

Top 100 Products of 2008
ReadWriteWeb — ... top 10 lists, so we've noted when that is the case and added some new products that just missed the cut somewhere along the line. ReadWriteWeb's Top 100 Products This list is in alphabetical order, with category noted beside each item. Adobe AIR; Platforms Afrigator; International Amazon Web Services; Platforms & Enterprise * Android; Platforms & Digital Lifestyle * App Store (iPhone); Digital Lifestyle Basecamp; Enterprise BBC ...

Apple Relaxes, iFart Blasts Through
WebProNews Feed — ... , they may forever be profitable now that Apple decided his app wasn t too crass for the iPhone public. iFart Mobile is currently the number one iPhone/iPod Touch application, pulling in a dollar a pop. Call it the new Whoopie Cushion. Recently released from Apple banishment, iFart wafted up to the top spot Christmas Day as almost 40,000 techno-chic iBrats immediately sought 21st Century methods of embarrassing their sisters. Or perhaps to save themselves when unable to reproduce a sound made by a scooting chair or some flatulent vinyl. iFart's popularity overshadowed the ...

Developing iPhone apps not worth the effort anymore
The Next Web — ... Dutch iPhone developer Vincent Verweij got pretty fed up with this. He burns a lot of money while developing his apps, without seeing much revenue coming back. “To survive in the App Store, you’re only hope is short hits, I don’t want my business to depend on that,” Verweij told ...

Kraft launches iFood Assistant for iPhone
iPhone Buzz — ... Since Kraft puts various their products on all of items in this application, so it's make sense if we expect this app can be used for free. Instead, Kraft has opted to charge $0.99 for the download from the Apple App Store on the iPhone or iPod Touch. ...

Kraft launches iFood Assistant for iPhone
Top iPhone News — ... up with video demonstration, editable shopping list and comment-capability feature. “Our goal is to help make consumers’ lives easier by helping them find the perfect food idea for any occasion, create quick shopping lists and find the nearest grocery store – all just a finger-tap away,” said Ed Kaczmarek, director of innovation for new services at Kraft. You can download this application for $0.99 from the Apple App Store on the iPhone or iPod Touch. [via BNET]

In search of the perfect panorama
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... like the old Cinerama movies where the three cameras didn't quite match up. When shooting inside, I found the images more consistent. Steve Sande reviewed this app for TUAW back in October. Continue reading In search of the perfect panorama TUAWIn search of the perfect panorama originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...

Even the iPhone is going retro
Technology - Channel Feed — ... resolution. Playing these retro games isn’t about how it looks or sounds, but how it feels, and how it feels right in the hands of a passionate classic or retro gamer. If I owned an iPhone, however, I’d probably go for retro or classic video games that I had played when I was young … er. Space Invaders and Asteroids, which I originally played on the Atari 2600, are probably two of the games I’d get for my iPhone. Scouring the Internet, but staying away from the Apple iPhone App Store, I’ve found a retro game pack for the gadget at Apptism. The retro ...

Son of: In search of the perfect panorama
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... TUAWSon of: In search of the perfect panorama originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...

The iPhone is magic
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Humor, Video, Apple, iPhoneWe love the iPhone, you love the iPhone (most of you do anyway) and so do millions of other users around the world. It's a great device that empowers users to do almost anything from making calls to checking email, from updating your status on Facebook and Twitter to sending text messages and running a host of cool applications. All of this shiny goodness is made possible by the vision and technological mastery of the engineers and designers at Apple. Or, so we thought. Turns ...

Apple Announces 500 Million App Store Downloads
AppScout — ... that 300 million iPhone and iPod touch apps had been downloaded from the App Store, the company has now said it has crossed the 500 million app mark. (Remember that the store has only existed for about six months.) ...

App Store Hits 500 Million Downloads
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek — App Store Hits 500 Million Downloads Posted by: Peter Burrows on January 16 Apple just announced that there are 15,000 applications available at its App Store section of iTunes and that they have been downloaded a total of 500 million times. This is up from 10,000 apps and 300 million downloads just a month ago. This is truly ...

Half a billion apps downloaded from the App Store
The Apple Core — ... – that over 500 million apps have been downloaded from the App Store on iTunes. Update: This means that 200 million apps were downloaded in the last six weeks .That’s 4.76 million apps per day or 55 apps per second . Apple announced 300 million downloads on 05 December 2008 and 200 million downloads during its 21 October 2008 ...

Half a billion apps downloaded from the App Store
The Apple Core — ... – that over 500 million apps have been downloaded from the App Store on iTunes. Update: This means that 200 million apps were downloaded in the last six weeks .That’s 4.76 million apps per day or 55 apps per second . Apple announced 300 million downloads on 05 December 2008 and 200 million downloads during its 21 October 2008 ...

Multi-Photo solves an iPhone problem
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... is not quite to my taste. I think the wood grain background is a bit garish, but Multi-Photo does what it advertises and does it well. It solves a long standing issue with the iPhone and I can only wish Apple had included this in the iPhone feature set from the start. TUAWMulti-Photo solves an iPhone problem originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...

Solid Earnings Drive Apple Stock
Contentinople: — ... on a conference call. CFO Peter Oppenheimer said the iTunes store had a record quarter, thanks to strong music and video sales. He also said the company has seen more than 500 million downloads from its Apps Store since its debut in July. It now offers more than 15,000 applications.

Death Match: Google Android Marketplace VS Apple App Store
T3.com All — ... Apple App Store Death Match Seven: Conclusion Google Android Marketplace Open-source makes Android Marketplace the app store of the future, with the possibility of truly massive choice. The G1 handset and the website aren t quite up to scratch. Yet. Apple App Store Apple was selling apps while Android Marketplace was still in nappies, so it s no surprise that it s got more choice and a slicker website. Content control could become a sore point, though. Winner: Apple App Store Links: Apple App Store | ...

Contest: Submit Your Best iPhone App Idea!
Internet Evolution: — People everywhere are carrying around a clunky cellphone -- its face dirtied with fingerprints, its battery irreplacable -- and tying themselves into multi-year, possibly-monopolistic agreements with AT , simply to be part of the iPhone craze. A craze that is due in large part to the very successful iPhone App Store . The App Store, for those who dwell under rocks, is a brickless, mortarless store for iPhone users, accessible via iTunes, which sells thousands of applications for the iPhone, each of which leverages some or all of its technology, including its touch interface, ...

More than one million Joost iPhone apps downloaded
iPhone Buzz — Joost announced that more than one million iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded the free Joost application from Apple's App Store. Over their Wi-Fi connection, iPhone and iPod Touch users can use the global web video service's app to enjoy thousands of hours of movies, comedy, drama,  music, documentaries, sci-fi and sports. Ssince the Joost iPhone App is ad-supported, similar to the web-based version,  this service is free to all the Apple's mobile device users. [via MSNBC]

More than one million Joost iPhone apps downloaded
Top iPhone News — ... announced that more than one million iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded the free Joost application from Apple’s App Store. ...

BrowserMedia releases iPhone app for Grammy Awards
901am — BrowserMedia has released its iPhone application for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. BrowserMedia worked closely with The Recording Academy to design and develop an iPhone application to help promote the upcoming Grammy Awards on February 8. The application is an interactive trivia game designed to test the user’s knowledge through a celebration of 51 years of Grammy history. BrowserMedia is developing a companion Facebook application to further promote the Grammy’s and offer an ongoing trivia contest, which will be promoted on the Grammy.com ...

Are There Too Many App Stores For Phones?
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... I have to wonder is a cell phone manufacturer the right person to do this? The Post article asserts that to make this successful, you should own the platform, as Apple does with their iPhone App Store or Google with their ...

Microsoft, Nokia App Stores - Opening Soon!
SitePoint — ... their versions of Apple’s AppStore. Apple’s engagement of the development community and their huge user base, proved to be a true Web’s success story. Now, Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace is scheduled to take off late this year, while Nokia’s Ovi Store will be available in May. In an apparent game of “catch up”, both companies’ variants offer a variety of applications based on some of their most popular products. From a monetization standpoint, Apple has shown many times how branding combined with innovative products and thinking ...

iShred Makes Rockin’ Music
Gear Live — ... iShred can turn your iPhone or iPod touch into a rock funfest. Frontier Design’s app can turn even the most musically-challenged newbie into an artiste. Included is an interface with effects such as Fuzz, Delay, Treble Boost, Vibrato and Tremelo, and has a recorder and starter songs. Altogether there are over 2,000 chords, fret positions and scales. iShred can be used with Frontier’s Guitar, an acoustic app, and can be found $4.99 at the App Store. Tags: ...

Apple's Safari 4 underdelivers on community
The Open Road — ... So, Apple could foster community around Safari 4, and perhaps it will: Apple has demonstrated with its App Store for the iPhone that it knows how to create an add-on culture. ...

Ten iPhone apps that didn't make the App Store
Macworld — ... . Apple has irked more than a few iPhone app developers by rejecting their creations for inclusion in the App Store , sometimes for reasons that seem to have little sense. The company won’t reveal much about its mysterious and often seemingly-arbitrary process (representatives didn’t respond to multiple requests to comment on this story), but we had no problem tracking down developers whose apps had been snubbed. So cue the ...

Ten iPhone apps that didn't make the App Store
iPhone Central — ... . Apple has irked more than a few iPhone app developers by rejecting their creations for inclusion in the App Store , sometimes for reasons that seem to have little sense. The company won’t reveal much about its mysterious and often seemingly-arbitrary process (representatives didn’t respond to multiple requests to comment on this story), but we had no problem tracking down developers whose apps had been snubbed. So cue the ...

“Walt Disney World Secrets” Notescast for iPhone Upgraded with More Secrets & Fun Facts
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... The new Walt Disney World Secrets” Notescast for the iPhone and iPod touch may be downloaded from the App Store at http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/ ...

iPhone users download five apps each, use Web most
Macworld — ... , IDG News Service Smartphone users around the world generally download about five software applications each, even iPhone users, according to market researcher InStat. The light amount of downloads appears to be at odds with the heavy use of the iPhone App Store . The online store has been so popular that Apple put out advertisements in early December saying the number of downloads had hit 300 million in the short time it had been open. The store opened July 11 of last year. Projections were that it would turn into a $1 billion business. It still may, but the store has not ...

iPhone users download five apps each, use Web most
iPhone Central — ... , IDG News Service Smartphone users around the world generally download about five software applications each, even iPhone users, according to market researcher InStat. The light amount of downloads appears to be at odds with the heavy use of the iPhone App Store . The online store has been so popular that Apple put out advertisements in early December saying the number of downloads had hit 300 million in the short time it had been open. The store opened July 11 of last year. Projections were that it would turn into a $1 billion business. It still may, but the store has not ...

BlackBerry App World Pricing Structure Revealed
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... As a point of reference, eight out of the current top ten apps selling in the iPhone App Store are priced $1.99 or less. The Android Market’s price cap is $200, while the App World will match Apple ( ...

Dockers brings motion-sensing ads to iPhone games!
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... The Dockers® “shakable” ad, available in a number of popular iPhone applications, integrates the functionality of the iPhone by taking advantage of the ...

Will Android and Windows Mobile get squeezed as smartphone market shakes out?
Between the Lines — ... added Exchange support and business-friendly features that iPhone sales really took off. The biggest thing that the iPhone has going for it is that it is the easiest smartphone on the market to use. It requires very little explanation or instruction. Most users can pick it and started tapping the screen and become productive within the first hour. This is big for IT because it translates into fewer help desk calls and decreases the need for training and tutorials. And now with its App Store , the iPhone has created a lot of momentum around its software as a platform for mobile ...

Skype for iPhone
dailywireless.org — The free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday, says C/Net. The announcement will be made at CTIA 2009, April 1-3 in Las Vegas. C/Net says Skype’s VoIP app for iPhone looks more like your traditional iPhone app than it does Skype 4.0 for Windows. ...

MLB.com At Bat 2009: Exclusively for iPhone and iPod Touch
PR News: — ... The 2009 version of MLB.com At Bat 2009 will now cost $10, and adds a number of new features, including live audio broadcasts of all the Major League Baseball games from the beginning of the season. Home and away broadcast will feature on the new app. The app is now available from the App Store. ...

Skype for iPhone Officially Available
WebProNews Feed — ... or talk "The user interface is everything you’d expect from an iPhone app, and it integrates with your Address Book for super low cost calls to friends, family and colleagues abroad," says Skype's Peter Parkes. "It also integrates with the Camera Roll and your photo albums so you can select a profile picture you love." The app is free of course. Skype offers plenty more information about it, and provides screenshots here, and at the Apple App Store. ...

John Carmack surprises fans (and his CEO) with Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone
VentureBeat — ... TH: We had some accidental news. I got off the plane and all hell was breaking loose because someone wrote about how you could take a jail-broken iPhone and go to a secret web site to get Wolfenstein 3D Classic for free. It was a secret page on id’s web site. It was really source code that John Carmack (id technical director) had staged to put the game up on the Apple App Store. ...

Tap Tap Revenge Most Popular iPhone App
WebProNews Feed — ... "comScore's Apple App Store data confirms the popularity of Tap Tap Revenge," said Bart Decrem, CEO, Tapulous. ...

Yahoo Releases Messenger iPhone App
ReadWriteWeb — As of this moment, Yahoo! has no less than 4 iPhone-native applications in the iTunes app store. The latest is Yahoo! Messenger, which already was spotted on the original Yahoo iPhone application (our review here) as well as their mobile-optimized web site. This latest offering is much more of a fully featured IM client for the Yahoo service, though. Sponsor Supported features include: IM and SMS sending and receiving, concurrent IM sessions (although not chat rooms as far as we can ...

Open source and the mythical man month
Open Source — ... I need to note here that shrink-wrapped products and the creation of software mass markets are important productivity drivrers in Brooks’ book. Both can be delivered through a completely proprietary model, as we’ve seen for instance at the Apple App Store. ...

The Social Media & Web Guide to Going Green
Mashable! — ... available via iTunes include those for measuring a car’s fuel efficiency or for figuring out the carbon footprint of a business trip. The ...

Digital Chocolate Mini Golf 99 Holes Theme Park
Gear Live — ... Time to tee off. Fans of the original will be pleased that Digital Chocolate has released Mini Golf 99 Holes Theme Park for iPhone and iPod touch. There are 99 holes with 5 different courses and 5 players to choose from. Best of all, there is endless replay for the low price of $5.99 at the App Store. A free version is also available with a limited amount of levels. ...

Windows Marketplace for Mobile Opens to Developers
ReadWriteWeb — Microsoft today opened up its Windows Marketplace for Mobile to developers. The move, which brings Windows mobile up to date with Apple's App Store and the Android Market, provides developers yet another way to generate revenue from their applications. According to Microsoft, the process is simple. You'll need a Live ID and $99 to sign up; to get paid, you'll need to provide bank account and tax identification details. Sponsor The Marketplace is designed for Windows phones running Windows ...

Apple Learns The Perils of Gatekeeping - With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, and an Administrative Headache
O'Reilly Media: Mac and iPhone — It hasn't been a good year for Apple's iPhone App Store . Child welfare advocates threw a fit over the notorious Baby Shaker application. App Store developers started to complain about slow payment of royalties from Apple. The ubiquity of iPhone flatulence applications became a running joke. And now comes word that popular industial rockers Nine Inch Nails have had their iPhone app turned down, because of naughty language. iphone-nin.png Which all leads to the question: Why is Apple in the business of selling iPhone applications anyway? ...

SpinVox releases first app on Apple App Store
901am — Voice to content messaging SpinVox and nFinity have announced the launch of the first SpinVox-enabled application available through Apple’s App Store. Using the SpinVox API nFinity has been able to rapidly develop a new feature for nFinity’s QuickVoice Pro, the latest version of the voice recorder that instantly became a Top 100 product in Apple’s App Store when it was released in July 2008. With QuickVoice you can conveniently record voice notes, reminders, dictations, meetings, interviews, shopping lists, to do lists, and even entire ...

Microsoft reveals list of banned mobile apps
textually.org — ... ... The guidelines may help Microsoft avoid some of the controversy that initially surrounded the iPhone App Store, when Apple was accused of arbitrarily banning certain applications. ...

Do Web Entrepreneurs Still Need Venture Capitalists?
Bits — ... a new semiconductor company, or even an Internet company,” Mr. Hendershott writes. Now, Web start-ups are routinely started for less than $50,000. One of the key roles of venture capital, Mr. Hendershott argues, is providing the money needed to prove that a new technology works and that a market for the technology exists. During this period, start-ups rely on outside capital because they are not making any money for themselves. That period may no longer be necessary. Take the Apple App Store , for instance. In a few weeks, developers can easily build an application, submit ...

FreeShipping.org App: I Shopped, but I Soon Dropped
E-Commerce Times — ... , is available for free at the App Store. [image] Two things that online shopping has going for it: You can probably find just about anything for sale online, and you don't even have to get dressed to buy it. Working against it are having to wait for it to get shipped to you, and the fact that shipping sometimes adds a few bucks to the price you pay. ...

Nokia Opens the OVI Store
dailywireless.org — ... Apple’s App Store is the one to beat, of course. It currently offers 40,000 apps and has recorded over 1 billion downloads. Still, Nokia has a reported catalogue of over 20,000 items, with “thousands of the content industry’s biggest names along with independent application developers are distributing their media, applications and games through Ovi Store.” ...

A Case for Non-Ad Revenue on the Web
Bits — ... particularly excited about ad-based businesses for the last several years. When Redfin raised venture capital several years ago, Mr. Kelman said, “it was a little bit like being in the twilight zone, just because everyone expected us to have a different revenue model.” Lately, he has noticed a shift in thinking. Today, he said, Redfin’s business model is often seen as an asset instead of a flaw because the tech world is more open to alternative Web business models. Apple’s iPhone App Store , which charges small fees for some applications, has helped prompt this shift, he ...

Palm Pre: Five reasons to expect a homerun
Between the Lines — ... about it, Palm has bet the company on the Palm Pre smartphone and the new webOS that powers it. If there are any unexpected problems with the Pre and it falls short of sales expectations when it launches on June 6, it would be financially and morally devastating to Palm. However, I doubt that will happen. I expect the Pre to be a big hit, and here are the top five reasons why: 5. Palm knows how to build an ecosystem With all of the momentum that is building around the iPhone as an application platform , Palm has a lot of ground to make up (and, for that matter, so do ...

The iPhone: A 2nd Economy?
dailywireless.org — ... By contrast, iPhone App Store, Android Market, Blackberry App World, Windows Mobile Marketplace, Palm App Catalog and Nokia Ovi Store are opening new frontiers. They provide a platform for marketing, selling and distributing software; all a developer needs to provide is a good idea and some working code. The Guardian explains How to become an iPhone developer in eight easy steps. Related Dailywireless articles include; Amazon Buys Stanza E-book App, Location-based Apps: Bigger Than iFart, ...

The iPhone: A 2nd Economy?
dailywireless.org — ... By contrast, iPhone App Store, Android Market, Blackberry App World, Windows Mobile Marketplace, Palm App Catalog and Nokia Ovi Store are opening new frontiers. They provide a platform for marketing, selling and distributing software; all a developer needs to provide is a good idea and some working code. The Guardian explains How to become an iPhone developer in eight easy steps. Related Dailywireless articles include; Amazon Buys Stanza E-book App, Location-based Apps: Bigger Than iFart, ...

The App Store: Year One Revolution
dailywireless.org — ... LG expects their “LG Application Store” (lgapplication.com)” to to offer up to 2,000 applications by the end of year with at least 100 free programs for LG handset users. The LG Mobile Developer Network is designed for third party software developers. LG plans to release 80 mobile phone models around the world this year, of which 12 will be smartphones. LG is the world’s No. 3 handset maker, trailing Nokia and Samsung. iPhone App Store, Android Market, Blackberry App World, Palm ...

Trimble AllSport GPS now available for the iPhone
PalmAddicts — ... AllSport GPS is available on the iPhone 3G for a one-time $9.99 fee. It can be purchased through the Health & Fitness category in the iPhone App Store or online through iTunes. ...

LG Shows Android Phone
dailywireless.org — ... that would include popular smart phone makers like Windows Mobile, Android, Blackberry and Palm. Verizon is hosting a Verizon Developer Community Conference on July 28 to encourage developers to design software for the carrier’s phones. Verizon’s applications may be based on a set of standards from the Joint Innovation Lab, says PC World, an alliance between four worldwide carriers including China Mobile, Softbank, Verizon, and Vodafone. iPhone App Store, Android Market, Blackberry App World, Palm App ...