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  There’s no denying that Apple’s App Store is one of the best things to happen to the smartphone industry. Not only it paved way for others to copy their business model, it gave developers a chance to showcase and sell their apps. And now in under three years after Apple hit the first billion, [...]

  Apple’s App Store today surpassed yet another milestone validating its numero uno status in the world of application stores. The App Store which is available in more than 90 countries has clocked over 15 billion app downloads by more than 200 million iPod touch, iPhone and iPad devices. Such a large number of downloads [...]

  Evernote, the ubiquitous note-taking app has expanded the functionality of the app by taking advantage of the iPad Smart Cover. As the name goes, the Evernote Peek App allows users to peek under the iPad Smart Cover to reveal bits of text, thus transforming it into a learning, studying or memory-enhancing tool. Lift the [...]

  App Store is one of the lucrative business models in the mobile phone industry and Opera, who is predominantly a browser company today jumped onto the bandwagon with their version of store known as the Opera Mobile Store. The store has been created in partnership with Appia and since it’s web-based, the store is [...]

  It’s no small feat by any means and Apple is rightfully flaunting it. Their App Store that empowers millions of iPhones, iPod touches and iPads with variety of apps has surpassed total downloads of 10 billion, making it the most successful App Store in the market today. Apple has also confirmed that they’ll announce [...]

  In a bid to maintain transparency, Apple today announced App Store review guidelines that tend to give a clear view to developers submitting apps to the App Store. The guidelines are void of legal jargons and good thing is that they are direct, clearly saying what can and cannot appear on App Store. Another [...]

  Netflix’s app that was available only on iPad is now available on other Apple iOS devices, namely the iPhone and iPod touch. The app goes for free in the App Store that will allow Netflix subscribers to watch TV shows and movies on-the-go. The Netflix App works over both Wi-Fi and 3G and categorizes [...]

  Apple’s App Store was somewhat compromised this weekend where a developer managed to take 42 of the 50 top spots in the books category with fake content. The developer, Thuat Nguyen was ousted from the App Store developer program for fraudulent activities and Apple assures that no data is shared during the download. However, [...]

  Opera has a reason to celebrate as its first ever app made its way to Apple’s App Store. It took more than 20 days for Opera’s Mini browser for iPhone to be approved and can now be downloaded from the App Store for free. Opera claims Mini is six times faster than Safari, which [...]

  iPhone app developers generally come out only after they’ve been approved but here’s Opera whose issuing a release for submitting their Opera Mini application to the App Store. The approval is obviously on the mercy of Apple (which for now looks slim) but it seems Opera is trying to gain some media hype so [...]

  UPDATE: So Airtel’s App Store variant will be known as App Central and it will be WAP-based only. Airtel users can point the phone’s browser to http://airtel.cellmania.com using Airtel Live’s WAP profile. The only good thing I found for now is the buying part. The site automatically detects your Airtel number and bills it [...]

  Keeping the debatable “How many fart or useless apps App Store has?” aside, the App Store boasts something commendable the other App Stores can’t. Apple has announced that the App Store now houses a whopping 100,000 apps, clearly showing its popularity amongst developers and consumers. If this small stat was not enough, Apple also [...]

  It took around nine months for Apple to pass the first billion mark but the second billion has come in a pretty quick time, 5 months to be precise. Today Apple’s App Store passed over 2 billion downloads with more than 85,000 apps on display. The surge in the downloads was possible because of [...]

  So it all started in July when FCC officially asked Apple, Google and AT&T the reasons for rejecting Google’s Google Voice app. And then came August where all the concerned parties submitted their justification to FCC with Apple claiming to neither accept or deny the app; AT&T claimed it had no role to play; [...]

  Samsung has announced to launch its iteration of App Store on September 14. It will be an on-device application store that will be available initially in UK, France and Italy, followed by 30 other countries. As for the phones, only Omnia and Omnia HD (I8910 HD) will be able to use the store for [...]