Research: E-Book Apps For iPhone On The Rise
In October, one out of every five new apps released for the iPhone was related to e-books, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry. The percentage eclipses the games app category for the second...
View ArticleApple Boasts ‘Well Over’ Two Billion App Downloads
Apple launched its App Store in July, 2008 with 552 apps; now it offers more than 100,000 in 21 categories. Gams claim the largest share of available apps, at 16%; closely followed by the books and...
View ArticleStudios Spin Disc Bonuses As iPhone Apps
iPhone integration is the new “it” feature for Blu-ray and DVD discs, as Hollywood seeks to establish itself on the putative “second screen” of today’s Net-connected living rooms. The new crop of...
View ArticleAs Google Readies First Phone, Apple Passes 3 Billion App Downloads
Google is set to announce today its Nexus One smartphone, promising new competition for Apple’s iPhone in the mobile entertainment space. Coincidentally enough, Apple announced this morning that its...
View ArticleiPad Analysis: iPhone Users Get It, But Will Others?
“Unlike the iPhone, which filled an already well-established need (cellular telephone usage), there is no existing need the iPad fills. That is, unless you’re an iPhone or iPod touch user,” writes...
View ArticleResearch Firm Forrester On Apple And Paid Content’s ‘Demographic Fault Line’
“Apple’s music and app stores straddle paid content’s demographic fault line,” writes Forrester Research’s Mark Mulligan on paidContent March 1. “Apps, a fundamentally interactive experience, are...
View ArticleUniversal Music Releases iPhone Game To Promote Artists, Sell Tracks
The $4.99 app will be used to highlight new releases, such as The Scorpions’ “Raised on Rock,” which can already be played on the phone even though the album isn’t due out until March 23. A Universal...
View ArticleNintendo Plans ‘3DS’ Handheld
Nintendo may climb aboard the 3D bandwagon, announcing that it plans to release a new version of its DS handheld incorporating 3D effects sometime before March 2011. But the tentatively-named “3DS”...
View ArticleVerizon iPhone In The Works?
With Apple developing a phone with CDMA capability, its exclusive U.S. arrangement with AT&T dating to 2007 appears set to end, according to a Wall Street Journal report. One source tells the...
View ArticleiPad Day One Sales Best iPhone Bow
Apple says it sold some 300,000 iPads in the U.S. as of midnight Saturday, April 3. In addition, iPad users downloaded more than one million apps from Apple’s App Store and more than 250,000 ebooks...
View ArticleResearch: Most iPad Apps Are Games, But Games Not As Popular As On iPhone
Less than a week after Apple introduced the iPad, the company’s App Store already offers roughly 2,400 applications optimized exclusively for the unit, according to a new report issued by app store...
View ArticleFed Agencies Looking Into App Flap
The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are deciding which government agency will launch a preliminary antitrust inquiry into Apple’s new policy of requiring app developers to use the...
View ArticleFour In Ten iPhone Buyers Are Business Users, Says AT&T
Ron Spears, chief of AT&T’s Business Solutions unit, told an investor conference yesterday that enterprise customers make up a full 40 percent of current iPhone sales. As All Things D notes, the...
View ArticleNetflix’s iPhone App: How Great A Strain On AT&T’s Network?
As part of Apple’s iPhone 4 unveiling yesterday, Netflix announced that it will soon offer a free streaming-video app for its iPhone-toting subscribers. While users will be able to stream video via...
View ArticleVerizon iPhone Coming In January: Bloomberg
Verizon Wireless will offer Apple’s iPhone in January 2011, according to unnamed sources in a Bloomberg report. The addition of Verizon could help Apple boost iPhone shipments to at least 15 million...
View ArticleDisney Acquires Mobile Games Developer Tapulous
Tapulous, the publisher of iPhone and iPad music games such as “Tap Tap Revenge,” is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG), in an acquisition announced by Disney...
View ArticleApple’s iPhone Growth Defies Analysts; iPod Sales Dip In Q3
Apple says it recorded sales of 8.4 million iPhones during its third quarter, a year-over-year unit increase of 61%. The iPhone 4, launched three days before the end of the quarter, accounted for 1.7...
View ArticleResearch: Android Now the Top Smartphone Operating System In U.S.
The Android operating system expanded rapidly in the second quarter of 2010, overtaking Apple’s iPhone OS to become the third-most-popular smartphone system in the world, and passing Research In Motion...
View ArticleApple Gives Tacit OK To Flash-Derived Apps
In a move that appears to give developers the green light to build games and other apps for the iPhone and iPad in Adobe’s Flash, Apple says it is relaxing its restrictions on app development tools for...
View ArticleVerizon To Market iPhone Early Next Year: Report
Apple is designing a version of its iPhone for Verizon to market early next year, according to the Wall Street Journal. A key issue for entertainment distributors is whether Apple will be able to port...
View Article‘No Comment’ from Sony on Purported PlayStation Phone Pix
Sony Computer Entertainment first said that the purportedly leaked images of a long-rumored PlayStation Phone — published last night by tech blog Engadget — were “definitely false,” before modifying...
View ArticleiTunes Finally ‘Compleat’
As it turns out, Apple didn’t have much of a surprise in store for those who closely watch the digital space — but it’s good news nevertheless. At long last, the Beatles have arrived at iTunes....
View ArticleVerizon iPhone Imminent: WSJ
Verizon Wireless plans to introduce a version of Apple’s iPhone at the end of January, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal today. The company is expected to announce the new device at a...
View ArticleApp Market Poised for Growth as Verizon Announces iPhone Availability
Key details of Verizon Wireless’ iPhone announcement this morning: • The carrier will begin to offer Apple’s iPhone 4 online and in stores on Feb. 10. Pricing for the phone starts at $199 with a...
View ArticleVerizon Primed for Smartphone Growth; Subscribers Pass on Mobile Music, Video
Only one in four of Verizon Wireless’ 83 million long-term-contract mobile subscribers (26%) has a smartphone, according to the carrier. As Silicon Alley Insider sees it, that leaves a lot of market...
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