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Barnes & Noble reaches one million application downloads for Nook Color

Published on: 5th June, 2011

Nook Color users have downloaded more than one million applications on the application platform of the company, announced Barnes & Noble a few days ago. The most popular applications downloaded were Drawing Pad, Pulse, Angry Birds and Fliq Calendar. The Nook Color, primarily being a color e-reader powered by Android, was launched late last year. [...]

Popular Science: only 10,000 subscriptions on iPad

Published on: 4th April, 2011

The Popular Science version for iPad has only reached 10,000 subscriptions so far, says publisher Bonnier Technology Group. The milestone has been reached in a timeframe of only six weeks after the adoption by Apple of a new in-application subscription model and therefore the company is very excited about it. Details on iPad performance have [...]

Fox expects that Time Warner pulls channels from TV iPad application

Published on: 4th April, 2011

Fox recently announced to have given Time Warner Cable a cease-and-desist letter, asking it to withdraw Fox channels from the TV iPad application at TWCable. The studio considered that Time Warner did not have the right to stream its shows on the iPad tablet, even over the application’s home Wi-Fi limitation. Although Time Warner has [...]

Microsoft announces 11,500 WP7 applications, attacks iOS, Android and PlayBook

Published on: 4th April, 2011

The one-year anniversary of WP7 development details was accompanied by a Microsoft’s virulent attack on iOS, Android and BlackBerry PlayBook of RIM. Brandon Watson claimed Windows Phone 7 had reached about 11,500 active applications by concentrating on quality rather than quantity, while some of its rivals had been plodding. He criticized Google’s tolerance to almost [...]

Google’s Android in-app purchases ready to go live

Published on: 4th April, 2011

Google has recently followed up on a last-minute promise and started up public access to the Android In-app Billing. This system catches up to iOS and offers the possibility of buying books, game add-ons, as well as other content which had formerly been locked out. This can take the same payment methods as standard Android [...]

Android 3.0 catalog below 100 applications

Published on: 1st April, 2011

Second Gear’s developer Justin Williams, following a new check, has revealed the little progress made by Android 3.0’s application catalog in the month since its launch. Only fourteen applications are truly native. A total of fifty include both native applications and phone applications meaning resizing for a larger screen. The report includes Google’s applications and [...]

Free mobile-application subscriptions offered by NYT to its long-time readers

Published on: 28th March, 2011

A new paywall starting on March 28th has been announced by the New York Times for its digital content criticized for expensive and at the same time confusing mobile-device pricing structures. The NYT has begun e-mailing its regular users of the web portal with an offer of a free subscription, for a year, to the [...]

100 million downloads for Samsung Apps and Angry Birds

Published on: 28th March, 2011

On March 24, 2011, Samsung announced that the Samsung Apps TV and mobile application store has already seen almost 100 million downloads since the launch of the service in June 2010. The milestone was reached in about 10 months and the store currently offers over 13,000 applications for Samsung’s hardware offerings. As a comparison, the [...]

3DS Augmented Reality Cards application from Android Market

Published on: 24th March, 2011

A recent launched application on the Android Market guarantees to offer digital variants of the Augmented Reality cards which come with the Nintendo 3DS to users’ Android-based handsets. This includes the content found on six cards shipped with the device, like Question Mark Block, Link, Mario, Kirby, the Pikmin and Samus. Putting the application on [...]

Amazon sued by Apple for the ‘App Store’ trademark

Published on: 24th March, 2011

A certain court has recently revealed that Apple has taken legal action against Amazon for supposedly infringing on a trademark with its Amazon Appstore. The iPhone manufacturer declared that the start of developer support for the Android store was a misuse of Apple’s App Store name. Apple claimed that it had already asked Amazon several [...]

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