Mobile Apps

BlackBerry App World Reaches 3 Billion Downloads

Now more than 90,000 applications 'up for sale' on mobile app store

12 years ago

Apple Apps Boast Better Retention Than Android

New figures show that apps running on the iPhone and iPad are used much more frequently than on Android devices

12 years ago

Updated Tax Calculator Crashes Hours After Launch

App crashes as 400,000 people wanted to know how the government spends their tax

13 years ago

Tax App To Show How Government Spends Your Money

Government launches an app for seeing how much tax people pay and where the government spends it

13 years ago

Facebook Instagram Acquisition May Not Be So Instant

Facebook's Instagram acquisition may not close before the end of the second quarter as Zuckerburg had hoped

13 years ago

Facebook To Launch App Center

Social network explains how to get your app displayed prominently

13 years ago

Nokia Lumia Gets Exclusive App Bundle

Nokia hopes to make its app ecosystem more tempting to customers with exclusive apps from top developers

13 years ago

Google Play Surpasses 15bn App Downloads

Google's app store delivers a billion a month, but still lags Apple

13 years ago

Trend: 700,000 Bad Android Apps Downloaded From Google Play

Google's mobile OS is coming under attack again, as users download a massive number of dirty apps

13 years ago

SwiftKey Android Keyboard Offers Better Typing Experience

The popular Android app Swiftkey now offers a better typing experience thanks to its predictive capabilities

13 years ago

Apple Pulls ‘Stalker App’ From App Store

Girls Around Me allowed users to track women on location-based services

13 years ago

Lenovo Targets Enterprises With Mobile App Store Launch

Lenovo has launched an app store geared towards enterprises and corporate users, and not consumers

13 years ago

Nokia And Microsoft To Invest £15 Million Into Windows Phone Apps

AppCampus in Finland will become a prime destination for Windows Phone developers

13 years ago

Prototype Approved App Marketplace Launched By US Army

The US Army has launched a marketplace prototype for approved apps while the Air Force has bought into the iPad…

13 years ago

Apple and Facebook in US App Privacy Probe

US Congressmen ask for info on what data social app makers are taking

13 years ago

Google Pays Angry Android App Developers

Google payments to Android developers were delayed -angry programmers say the problem is not fixed

13 years ago

MIT Offers Android App Inventor Beta

MIT has made available a beta of its App Inventor tool that allows for the easy creation of Android apps

13 years ago

iOS Apps Could Allow Developers Access To Users’ Photos

Photo libraries and associated geo-locational data exposed by 'location access' agreement

13 years ago

MWC 2012: Mozilla Marketplace Is Open To Developers

Mozilla has announced its Mozilla Marketplace is now open for developer apps submissions for sale later this year

13 years ago

MWC 2012: GSMA To Counter Smartphone App Sprawl With Joyn

The GSMA is countering the duplication of smartphone apps by offering standardised, consolidated 'rich communications' instead

13 years ago

Apple Threatens To Pull British Siri Rival From App Store

Apple is said to be planning to pull the voice assistant Evi app from its App Store, because it is…

13 years ago

Apple Acquires App Search Engine Chomp

Apple buys Chomp for a reported £31.5 million - leading to rumours of an app store redesign

13 years ago

Android Apps Cost 2.5 Times More Than iPhone Apps

Canalys survey reveals disparities in the price of paid-for content between the two markets

13 years ago

Government Prescribes Medical Apps For Smartphones

Is there a doctor in the house? Andrew Lansley suggests we all check our smartphones, as part of an NHS…

13 years ago

TFL Counts On Developers To Help Ease Olympic Travel Chaos

Transport 'hotspot' data released to developers to help travelling public 'Get Ahead of the Games'

13 years ago

Mozilla Reportedly Planning Smartphone And App Store Move

Mozilla is reportedly planning a web-based mobile operating system, as well as a Mozilla app store

13 years ago

App Developers Apologise For Sharing Users’ Address Books

iPhone apps Hipster and Path move to fix security flaw, with a summit planned to discuss a 'privacy pledge'

13 years ago

Xamarin Delivers MonoTouch 5.2 for iOS App Development

Xamarin’s updated MonoTouch 5.2 accelerates and simplifies iPhone and iPad application development

13 years ago

RIM Continues Developer Push For BlackBerry 10

RIM's developer conference continues the company's chase of third-party developers for BlackBerry 10

13 years ago

The Dangerous World Of Bring Your Own Devastation (BYOD)

A Bring Your Own Device policy has many attractive attributes but the security risks can be enormous and, as yet,…

13 years ago