Amazon opens app store of sorts
January 18, 2010 Written by James Middleton
Social network cum online retailer Amazon expanded its empire with the launch of an app store of sorts for the e-reader market.
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Head in the clouds
January 27, 2010 Written by Malik Saadi
Despite the proliferation of smartphones and efforts of promoting native development and runtime platforms, web-based services are emerging as cost-effective challengers that could take application runtime to the web environment. Not only will this allow the development of cheaper and advanced applications, but it could also shift computing resources and their management from the device to the cloud, which could in turn lower the barriers for enabling advanced applications over non-smartphone terminals.
Motorola opens Chinese app store
January 22, 2010 Written by James Middleton
Resurgent vendor Motorola opened the doors of its Android focused app store in China on Friday, paving the way for the company’s assault on the burgeoning Chinese mobile market.
Intel unveils app store; shows off monster LG smartphone
January 11, 2010 Written by James Middleton
As Las Vegas gadget show CES wound up at the end of last week, Intel announced that it too would be going after a slice of the app store action.
Mobile app store comes to India
January 5, 2010 Written by James Middleton
Even the emerging market operators are looking for a slice of the app store action. Indian operator Aircel said Tuesday it has tapped up application services firm Infosys to build it an application store catering to Aircel’s almost 30 million mobile subscribers.
Palm opens developer programme up to Europe
January 4, 2010 Written by James Middleton
Lagging behind its smartphone peers somewhat in terms of app availability, US vendor Palm has announced the expansion of its webOS developer programme to Europe.
2010: Predictions for the year ahead
The telecoms industry is beginning to see signs of economic recovery and can look forward to sustained, slow revenue growth in 2010, according to analyst research released by Informa Telecoms & Media.
Tesco iPhone undercuts on price
December 15, 2009 Written by James Middleton
UK supermarket Tesco began selling the Apple iPhone on Monday, at the lowest monthly contract price in the UK market.
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If they build it, will they come?
November 9, 2009 Written by James Middleton
Acclaimed travel writer Bill Bryson once remarked: “We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.” In 2009, that observation became a theme for the mobile space.
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T-Mobile introduces carrier billing for Android apps
November 5, 2009 Written by James Middleton
Wireless carrier T-Mobile strengthened its ties with the Android platform this week, revealing plans to roll out a T-Mobile channel in the Android Market and introduce carrier billing for these apps.
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