News tagged with application store

Mobile apps raise new privacy concerns

Smartphone in hand, you tap into your local application store. You click on a nifty tool that promises to massage your belly and pat your head at the same time. But just as you're about to download it, you decide to click ...

Technology / Software

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

iPhone attachment captures panoramic video

Most iPhone developers are focused on creating software applications for the hip smartphones from Apple.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Microsoft to open 'app store' in February

Microsoft began wooing developers for a February opening of its first "app store" for computers powered by the US technology giant's Windows software.

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created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

HTML5 OS is set to disrupt platform lock-in

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Canada-based startup founded in November 2010 arrived at TechCrunch Disrupt last week to debut its "HTML5 operating system" called Carbyn. To get this system, there is nothing to install; ...

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created Sep 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 13 | with audio podcast weblog

Samsung Series 5 Chromebook irons out kinks

Consumers shopping for a PC have a new choice: laptops running Google's Chrome OS operating system.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Apple App Store downloads cross 15 billion mark

Apple announced on Thursday that more than 15 billion applications for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch have been downloaded from its App Store.

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created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple to nix apps that tip off drunk drivers

(AP) -- After pressure from four U.S. senators, Apple Inc. has said it will start rejecting iPhone applications that tip drivers off about police checkpoints for drunken driving.

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created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 8

Mobile 'apps' to be $58 billion market: study

Mobile applications downloaded from online stores will be a $58 billion worldwide business by 2014, as tablet computers such as Apple's iPad stoke the surging market, a new study said Monday.

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created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adobe shares soar on Apple announcement

Adobe shares soared on Thursday after Apple appeared to open the door for programs converted from Adobe's popular Flash video software to run on the iPhone and other Apple devices. ...

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created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3

New security measures for Apple's iTunes

Apple put new security measures in place on iTunes on Wednesday, one day after barring a Vietnamese applications developer for fraud.

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created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple bars developer from App Store

Apple said Tuesday it has barred a Vietnamese program developer from its application store on iTunes for fraudulent activity.

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created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Apple's App Store success a hard act to follow: analyst

Apple's hugely successful applications store has spawned similar setups around the world but it will be tough to compete with the US technology giant, an industry expert said Tuesday.

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created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google building online Chrome application shop

Google on Wednesday gave software developers an early peek at an online Chrome Web Store it is building as an emporium for games and other applications built for use on the Web.

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created May 19, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Mobile 'apps' a $17.5 bln market by 2012: study

A study released on Wednesday indicated that the market for mobile device software programs should rocket to 17.5 billion dollars (US) within three years.

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created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Phones have TV signals, TVs have Internet feeds, computers have a bit of everything

"Convergence" is too bulky a word to do justice to all the pretty gadgets on display at the Consumer Electronics Show, or to describe how they are increasingly doing more to give consumers the content and connectivity wherever ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0