Smartphones grew to dominate a larger portion of the mobile device pie in the first quarter of 2009, driven largely by touch-screens, shows new data from Gartner. Nokia led in sales to users, followed by BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, Apple ...Read More
An iPhone game developer has learned that hard way that one of the following will get your app banned: Publicly slamming the iPhone App Store, or gradually increasing prices until someone pays hundreds of dollars for a simple time waster.
I'm ...Read More
Last week at GDC 2010, I talked to quite a few iPhone developers, big and small, and they all told me exactly the same thing when I asked about the iPad: "No, I haven't gotten my hands on one yet." ...Read More
Microsoft just launched a new version of its Bing iPhone app. The iPhone app gives you comprehensive access to Bing's core services, including Bing maps and directions, as well as news and image search. Besides offering better stability and a ...Read More
As we get closer to the launch date of Apple's iPad (April 3), I can't help but ponder how each application I use might translate to the new device.
Games obviously will have a lot more flexibility with the added touch-screen ...Read More
Apple may be next to hop on board the social networking bandwagon after the company filed a patent for an application that would unite iPhone and Mobile Me users in ad hoc groups based on their geographic location. The patent, ...Read More
Conflicting reports have surfaced for the last week about how well Apple's still-unreleased iPad is selling, how well it will sell, and whether it'll make more of a dent in the market than the iPhone's debut.
Most recently, unnamed sources told ...Read More
Most iPad developers may not yet have touched the actual device, but that doesn't mean they haven't been busy working away on software for Apple's newest invention. But, according to an e-mail obtained by Macworld, if you want your iPad ...Read More
A number of industry experts are raising doubts about the ability of Palm Inc. to turn itself around in an increasingly crowded smartphone market. The company's shares slid 15 percent, or 87 cents, to $4.78 ahead of trading Friday. "We are less ...Read More
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- The odds are stacked against Apple Inc.'s new iPad reaching sales of 1 million as quickly as the iPhone, an online bookmaker said. The iPhone, which went on sale in June 2007, took 74 days to get ...Read More
Apple could sell more iPads in the first three months of availability than it sold original iPhones in the same period, according to sources quoted by the Wall Street Journal. "Hundreds of thousands" of units have already been pre-ordered, says ...Read More
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, dropped as much as 17 percent in early U.S. trading after forecasting sales this quarter that were less than half of analysts' estimates. Revenue in the period ending in May ...Read More
Apple patent applications are usually pretty dry, but it looks like a new one turned up by Patently Apple has a bit more user-focused meat to it -- it describes a location-based social networking app called "iGroups," which lets groups ...Read More
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Palm Inc. forecast sales that trailed analysts' estimates as its phones fail to match the popularity of rival models running on Google Inc.'s Android software. The shares fell as much as 15 percent in late trading. Revenue ...Read More
If you can't pitch the press, pay them. That's the proposition some review sites have for publicity-starved iPhone developers.
Several websites dedicated to iPhone app reviews are requesting payments from developers in exchange for writeups of their apps, Wired.com has learned. ...Read More
Amazon has at last released Kindle for Mac, which means you can now read your Kindle books on most any device. It joins the iPhone, PC Blackberry and of course the Kindle itself.
Like the PC version, Kindle for Mac is ...Read More
The tech industry wants Google (GOOG) to deliver an iPhone 'killer,' and continues to be disappointed that Google doesn't share that interest. The reaction to a report issued Tuesday by Flurry Analytics managed to completely overlook some interesting news–the Android-based Motorola ...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cellphone developer HTC Corp said it is confident it can fight off a recent technology patent infringement lawsuit from iPhone maker Apple Inc and promised to issue a formal response in the next few weeks.
The comments ...Read More
Sprint is going Google, and may soon offer the fastest of smart phones. The Overland Park wireless carrier announced Wednesday that it would soon sell Google's Nexus One phone - although the company wouldn't say precisely when or how much the ...Read More
To buy or to build? That's the question that drove Yahoo's decision to buy social sports startup Citizen Sports, which owns a series of sports-related apps on the iPhone and on Facebook, according to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) media head James ...Read More
On Wednesday, developer Amro Mousa from Return7 posted on Twitter that Apple has now added the ability for developers to schedule a sale window for their iPhone applications, allowing them to temporarily schedule a different price. Macworld has independently confirmed the ...Read More
