Verizon Wireless launches music and mobile app store
Verizon Wireless has become the latest player in the mobile applications market.
The US based telecom giant has launched its own digital media and mobile apps store.
They are currently offering more than 5 million tracks for downloading. And most of these songs are available without DRM.
These [...]
Verizon to become a member of Joint Innovation Lab
Verizon Wireless has announced that they would join Joint Innovation Lab.
Joint Innovation Lab has been created by China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone.
The aim of this organization is to help standardize mobile application development.
The purpose is to get the applications out to the user in [...]
Blackberry App World won’t have ultra cheap applications
Research in Motion has just announced the launch of a mobile application store for their Blackberry smartphones.
This online store has been named Blackberry App World.
The company said that the store would work with RIM devices running the company’s operating system (version 4.2 or higher).
The devices [...]
RIM announces Blackberry App World
Research In Motion has announced that the mobile application store for their Blackberry smartphones would be called Blackberry App World.
They are already accepting applications to be offered on this store since sometime now.
Blackberry App World is expected to be launched sometime later this month.
It would provide facilities similar to [...]
Asus working on Android powered netbooks
Google Android mobile platform was originally developed for smartphones.
However, things are changing and a lot of new platforms are being developed based on the Android platform.
Market sources say that Asus is already working on developing a netbook model that could be powered by the Google Android mobile operating system.
The company [...]
Nokia launches mobile store
World’s leading mobile phone maker Nokia has finally announced their own mobile store.
This store would offer both applications and media content for Nokia mobile phones.
The company said that the Nokia Ovi store would open in nine countries in May.
The company would take 30% of the revenues generated from the sales [...]
Hewlett-Packard, MySpace, Qualcomm new members of Symbian Foundation
Symbian Foundation has announced 14 new members joining their entity.
These include high profile names like Hewlett Packard, MySpace and even Qualcomm.
With this, the number of members of the Symbian Foundation has now reached 78.
Nokia announced this foundation to help create an open source version of their mobile [...]
Archos Internet Media Tablet based on Google Android
Archos has announced that they are working on an Internet Media Tablet which would be powered with Google Android mobile operating system.
Google designed the Android platform for mobile devices but they have been giving hints on a broader utility.
Archos seems to have picked up the idea for their [...]
Nokia could be next with a mobile app store
Market sources say that mobile phone industry giant Nokia planning to launch its own mobile app store at the upcoming Mobile World Congress.
Apple started the trend with the App Store which offers mobile applications for iPhone and iPod Touch.
Google Android also has its own mobile [...]
Apple iPhone Developers want trial mode feature asap
Apple recently announced that the Apple App Store currently host more than 15000 applications.
A lot of these applications are free but not every developer can offer free versions of their applications.
Some developers are including advertising to give away their products for free.
One of the primary [...]
