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Android Market celebrates 10 billion downloads with 10-cent app sale

Guess what? Your favorite Android app may be just 10 cents right now, thanks to the Android Market's 10 billion downloads celebration.

By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 08 December, 2011 01:28

Tags: Swift, SoundHound, smartphones, Phones, Mobile OSes, mobile, Guess, Google, consumer electronics, app store, apps, Android
Android Market trumps App Store with auto-updates

The latest Android Market update isn't a big one, but it includes one change that should make iPhone users jealous.

By Jared Newman | 03 November, 2011 02:19

Tags: smartphones, Phones, Google, consumer electronics, app store, apps, Apple, Android
Android overtakes iOS in app downloads

The Android operating system now leads in total app downloads, another benchmark in the race to dominate the smartphone market, according to ABI Research.

By Eric Mack | 26 October, 2011 02:43

Tags: wireless, Telecommunication, smartphones, networking, Mobile OSes, mobile, iOS, Google, consumer electronics, app store, apps, applications, Apple, Android
In pictures: Steve Jobs and Apple - The successes and flops

From the Lisa to the App Store, here are 11 products from Steve Jobs's tenure as Apple's CEO that made an impact - whether they succeeded or not

By Nick Mediati | 06 October, 2011 11:17

Tags: steve jobs, mobility, mobile solutions, Lisa, iPhone, iPad, app store, apps, Apple
Apple App Store downloads cross 15 billion

Apple says more than 15 billion applications for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch have been downloaded from its App Store.

By AAP | 08 July, 2011 08:39

Tags: iPhone, iPad, app store, apps, Apple

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Turn your iPhone into a remote mouse and keyboard

When I give presentations, watch movies from the sofa in my office, or need to start a task away from my desk, I don't want to be within arm's length of my mouse. So I appreciate the freedom offered by Air Mouse Pro (US$6, buy-only), a full-featured remote control from R.P.A. Tech. The top half of the Air Mouse Pro Screen features a two-button trackpad, while the bottom half gives you a keyboard, along with controls for browsing the Web and playing movies and music.

By Kate Dohe | 28 April, 2009 08:41

Tags: Apple, app store, iPhone

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Amazon's Android app store: Steve Jobs doesn't get it

Roll out the welcome wagon, Android fans: It looks like you'll soon have a new place to shop.

By JR Raphael | 18 March, 2011 09:27

Tags: wireless technology, Telecommunication, Phones, mobile, Handhelds, Google, consumer electronics, app store, apps, apple iphone, Apple, Android, amazon.com
The 8 best iPad apps -- so far

Apple's iPad has been available for a short time, and you can already find apps to watch streaming movies, manage your Web passwords, use Twitter, do word processing and more.

By Mitch Wagner | 14 April, 2010 04:35

Tags: tablet PCs, iPad, app store, apple ipad, Apple
Android, iPhone, BlackBerry: Which OS is best for app development?

Let's say that you're a software developer who has created a hot new application for smartphones that you're certain is about to take the world by storm. Your work isn't quite done and here's the problem: not only will your brilliant and innovative application have to compete with several other applications that have similar ambitions, but it will have to compete with them over multiple platforms.

By Brad Reed | 04 December, 2009 06:00

Tags: smartphones, mobile phones, mobile apps, mobile applications, app store
Five Fixes for Apple's App Store

From the Google voice fiasco to this week's Pepsi pick-up line app, Apple's vaunted app store is showing its weaknesses. CIO.com's Tom Kaneshige suggests five steps Apple should take to make the store better for users and developers.

By Tom Kaneshige | 16 October, 2009 05:22

Tags: iPhone, app store, Apple
Apps Store approvals still make no sense, Spotify or not

Much is being made of supposed improvements to Apple's App Store, but the approval of a music service called Spotify only raises more questions. And the recent approval of Loopt was a major step backward even Phil Schiller may be unable to fix.

By David Coursey | 09 September, 2009 04:36

Tags: smartphones, iphone app store, iphone apps, app store, Apple

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