AppBrain Allows Remote Android Installs

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Though Google has put push installs on the roadmap for future versions of Android, the website AppBrain.com has already developed a method to push apps onto Android devices. Read the rest of this entry »

ComScore: Android Continues Growth in US

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

While all platforms lost marketshare, Android id continuing growth in the three month period ending May 2010. At that time, 49.1 million US citizens owned a smartphone. Read the rest of this entry »

Shazam Chases Dutch Developer

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Landmark Digital Services, owner of the patents of the music recognition service, is chasing a Dutch developer who wanted to publish an open source version of Shazam for Java based mobile phones. Read the rest of this entry »

UK Spends Big Bucks on iPhone Development

July 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

BBC reports that not only the US government is hitting it off with the iPhone. The UK government (that just announced a lot of budget costs) is spending tens of thousands of pounds on iPhone development as well. Read the rest of this entry »

US Government Launches App Store

July 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

The US Government has launched an app store to promote official government applications to consumers. Despite Obama’s preference to the Blackberry platform, it only holds iPhone and Web Apps. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple Studies iTunes Data for iAd Placement

July 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In a post on Bloomberg, Apple announced that it is aggregating userdata from millions of iTunes users to target iAd based campaigns toward the right group of app users. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple Responds to iTunes Fraud

July 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Yesterday, we wrote about developer Thuat Nguyen, who was using stolen iTunes credentials to generate huge amounts of sales on his apps. Today, Apple responded to the case. Read the rest of this entry »

Glu Collects $13.5 Million Through Private Placement

July 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Yesterday, Glu has sold 13,495,000 new shares on the market at around $1.00. These shares have been bought by existing and ten new investors and give the company some new capital to work with. Read the rest of this entry »

AppStoreHQ: iOS Most Popular Development Platform

July 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Vision Mobile is not the only researcher to poll mobile developers. AppStoreHQ also checked the cross-platform interest of mobile developers and discovered it is very limited. Read the rest of this entry »

Vision Mobile: Android Most Popular Development Platform

July 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Vision Mobile has sent out an enquiery to 400 developers to track their thoughts on all those different mobile development platforms out there. It turns out Android is the most popular of them. Read the rest of this entry »