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Apple Still Leading The App Charge
08April2013
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Apple Still Leading The App Charge

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As an iPhone app developer in Los Angeles we were interested to see the report released today showing Apple’s App Store and Goole Play continuing to set the pace for the overall sales performance while BlackBerry and Microsoft’s Windows Phone remain distant challengers. App sales climbed by 11% in Q1 2013 worldwide with combined downloads from the stores totally more than $13.4 billion. Some of the strongest growth was from emerging markets such as South Africa and Brazil but robust growth both in revenue terms and download volumes was seen in mature markets such as North America. At 74% Apple’s App Store accounted for the largest indexed proportion of…

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Facebook Topping On Ice Cream Sandwich
05April2013
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Facebook Topping On Ice Cream Sandwich

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Yesterday Facebook announced a family of Android-based smartphone apps which is to be called Facebook Home. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced ”We’re going to talk about how you can transform your Android phone into a great social phone” Facebook Home will be available on April 12 on certain phones which run the Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean versions of the Android operating system. The apps will be extended to tablets later in the year. Facebook home will become the users home screen and will be loaded when the phone is sleeping.  They will get a cover feed  which includes link shares, status updates and new photos. Users…

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IOS Still More Popular With Business Users Than Android
03April2013
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IOS Still More Popular With Business Users Than Android

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According to a report by Citrix the IOS platform continues to be the preferred mobile platform in the business world. Studying business customers who uses it’s cloud-based management software Citrix found that iOS was No. 1 with 58 percent adoption in the 2012 fourth quarter. Android took second place with a 35% share followed by Windows with 7%. This is particularly interesting as we recently reported that overall Android seems to be making gains with Windows 8 Mobile also leaping in popularity. IOS made a 2% gain from the previous quarter and was the most popular platform among businesses that deal with customers one-on-one such as…

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Android up 13%, iOS down 7%, BlackBerry down 81%, Windows Phone up 52%
02April2013
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Android up 13%, iOS down 7%, BlackBerry down 81%, Windows Phone up 52%

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The mobile OS market share figures are in for Kantar Worldpanel’s last quarter, and the numbers are very interesting indeed. Kantar Worldpanel is the largest consumer research mobile phone panel in the world which conducts more than 240,000 interviews per year in the U.S to assertion what people are using. The real shocks are not the Android and iOS numbers which show steady but unspectacular growth for Android and gradual but not catastrophic drops for Apple but the BlackBerry and Windows phone numbers which show dramatic changes from the same quarter a year ago. Windows Phone looks to be taking off with 52 percent growth December,…

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New Playboy iPhone App Keeps It Clean
01April2013
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New Playboy iPhone App Keeps It Clean

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The infamous playboy magazine launches its iPhone app but keeps it classy with no nudity. Apple is well known for it’s tight rules on app submissions and doesn’t allow pornographic material. Josh Schollmeyer, Playboy‘s Director of Digital Content reflects “It forces us to use our imagination to be a little bit more creative,” he says. “I tell all my photographers every picture has to be one of three things. It has to be romantic, whimsical or sexy.” iPhone users can downooad the app free from Apples’s app store but to view some of the cotent a monthly subscription costing $1.99 is required. That will buy…

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Will Ouya Android Games Console Lure Developers?
29March2013
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Will Ouya Android Games Console Lure Developers?

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  The Ouya games console was launched this week which experts say could disrupt the industry. The Android based console was a crowd funding success story raising over $8m in funding from 63,416 backers. The console retails for $99 and the games will be a fraction of the cost of traditional platforms such as PlayStation and Xbox. The company has already started sending out consoles to the first supporters of the project. The Ouya is looking to capitalise on the growing popularity of cheap independently produced games. Mobile device gaming is attracting millions of casual gamers who are not prepared to invest in gaming hardware consoles, but are still…

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09July2012
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Apple Hunts Down App Store Manipulators

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Apple hunts down app marketing firms that use shady techniques like bots or cheap labor to up their apps’ ranking. Some banned developers claim to be innocent.

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29May2012
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US Government Embraces Mobile App Technology

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Government agencies have to develop 2 mobile apps within the next year. Data should be accessible for the public as well as available to third party developers.

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