iPhone OS 4 gets new controls, Apple antitrust, iPhone iPod touch user’s tops in downloads
New features of the iPhone OS 4.0 have surfaced. The iPhone will get new media controls and file sharing capabilities among other things. Apple is facing a possibility of an antitrust investigation by either the DOJ or the FTC. The charges have allegedly come from Adobe by the Flash debacle. NPD Group has issued a [...]
One Million Opera Mini Downloads From The App Store In Its First Day
We recently pointed out to you that Opera Mini has topped the free App Store download charts in all 22 featured App Stores, and now Opera has more good news, announcing that its iPhone browser was downloaded more than a million times on the first day of availability in each market. While we’re not taking [...]
1M downloads for Opera Mini, Twitter buys Tweetie for iPhone, Alive 4-ever returns
Opera mini for iPhone was just approved recently and already the new browser has had a million downloads. iPhone and iPad users are flocking to the only other browser offering available right now. Twitter has purchased Tweetie for iPhone. The app lets users Tweet directly from the iPhone and sold for $2.99 and an iPad [...]
Opera Download Numbers Double Thanks To The Introduction Of Choice Screen
The folks by at Opera must be smiling from ear to ear after Microsoft was forced to introduce the Windows Web Browser Choice Screen in Europe. The Web Browser Choice Screen prompts users whether they want to download competing browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera etc. Now Opera is reporting that the [...]
Samsung Apps Released For Various Countries
Mobile application stores are all the rage these days, and now Samsung has announced the expansion of its application store, Samsung Apps. By late January, folks who are living in Singapore, Germany, Brazil and China and own an Omnia II or OmniaLITE will have access to Samsung Apps. Apps such as Guitar Hero, Spiderman, and [...]
Cost Of App Store Piracy Is $450m?
Reports are coming in that Apple and the App Store developers have lost a good $450 million to piracy, since the App Store has been opened in July 2008. The figure is apparently based on estimates regarding the proportion of downloads that are paid applications, the piracy rate for paid applications, and the proportion of [...]
Sprint to get webOS 1.3.5 real soon
Palm Pre owners who are contracted to Sprint will be pleased to know that webOS 1.3.5 will soon be available to them, where updated Pres will experience the following changes – improved battery life optimization, QCELP capability fix that enables playback and audio of video sent via MMS, the ability to start Google Maps or [...]