Apple culls risqué content from Store

Rating: No boobies and bikinis for Cupertino

Apple, which resides in the same US state that hosts Baywatch and the porn industry, has decided that boobs and bikinis are far too risqué for its iTunes app store. It has been quietly culling them.

Key indicators for iPhone app success

Rating: Media reviews, user feedback and an App Store rating, perhaps?
It’s interesting to see what criteria app developers are using to judge how successful their iPhone app are. Brian Akaka, founder of Appular disclosed his criteria. The answer is a mixture of rave reviews in the media; user feedback; and a rating on the iTunes [...]

iWikiPhone offers smart iPhone app shopping

Rating: Social networking meets iconic handset
It had to happen. The two latest fads have collided – social networking and Apple’s iConic iPhone – to produce a smart way to shop for iPhone apps. iWikiPhone is a social network for iPhone users to glean information about apps which others have bothered to download.
The site has [...]

Mobile application downloads will only double in five years

Rating: Surely ABI Research is being very conservative?
In a new report,  ABI Research says it expects application downloads to reach five billion by 2014. That’s only double an estimated 2.3 billion applications downloaded in 2009. More controversial is the assertion that Android will take share from Apple’s  iPhone.
Wireless research associate, Bhavya Khanna, says, “The iPhone’s [...]

Apps stores go enterprise thanks to MobileIron

Rating: Power to the IT people
IT management software provider, MobileIron has introduced its latest version [2.0] of its Virtual Smartphone Platform. There’s a whole bunch of fancy new facilities but one of the most intriguing is the capability of building an in-house apps store.
There’s no doubt that network managers (otherwise known as network N*z*s) [...]

GetJar wins Best Mobile Service award

Rating: GetJar is second largest app store next to Apple
GetJar has been named as the winner of the Mobile Excellence Award for Best Mobile Service. Previously GetJar was the recipient of the 2009 Meffy Award for Best Direct to Customer Service.
GetJar was selected for its premium advertising system - Pay-Per-Download (PPD) which allows developers [...]

Shazam offers RED to battle AIDS

Rating: Help fight AIDS with an iPhone download
It’s nice to see that mobile music discovery specialist, Shazam, has joined forces with RED to support World AIDS Day (1st December). It has produced a special edition of Shazam for the iPhone called Shazam Red.
When customers purchase Shazam Red from the App Store, 20 per cent [...]

Nokia moves the Ovi brand to PC client

Rating: Nokia Music (for PC) is rebranded Nokia Ovi Player
An interesting move by Nokia. It has taken advantage of an update to its existing PC client software, Nokia Music, to move the ‘Ovi’ brand onto the desktop. Personally, GoMo News views this as an attempt to combat the influence of iTunes – even in the [...]

Developing iPhone apps not so easy after all

Rating: Serious problems with App Store uploading
The lead developer for Stuck4Words (see our story here), Steven Dow, described his experience of trying to upload software to the Apple App Store as “like having a television not working and the way to fix it is to change a fuse in your toaster.” Perhaps things aren’t [...]

Symbian founder calls for single Java apps store

Rating: Launches free promotional app for AQA
It is rather amusing to see the man that could be seen as the father of Symbian, Colly Myers, launching his first mobile app in years. Not for Symbian, mark you, but for Java. He also launched a tirade against the lack of a single marketplace for apps written [...]

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