App Store downloads pass 40 billion – with almost 20 billion in 2012 alone
Apple announced today that their App Store has seen over 40 billion apps downloaded, with almost half of those downloads coming in 2012. In the month of December, there were over two billion downloads, a record-breaking month for Apple. In [...]
iOS App Store reaches 1 Million apps submitted
Apple has reached a rather large milestone this week, according to Appsfire. Appsfire is an app discovery service who monitor the iOS (and Android) app stores and they believe from their data that the iOS app store has [...]
Google Play Store passes 700,000 apps mark
Last month it was announced by Apple that the app store had passed the 700 thousand apps mark. Well, in the spirit of true competition, Google has now also announced that the Play store has now also passed the 700,000 [...]
The State of Mobile Security
All too often in the news are reports of hackers, websites breaking down, personal details being stolen and posted and various other nefarious activities to do with privacy and security. With the burgeoning smartphone world the opportunity for hacking and [...]
Official UEFA 2012 App Launched
Football or for our stateside visitors Soccer is once again about to explode to the fore with the advent of Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. To accompany this extravagaza Orange in conjunction with UEFA have released the official Euro [...]
Apple fails to secure ‘App store’ branding exclusivity.
A federal judge has kicked out Apple’s attempt to get a preliminary injunction to stop Amazon using the Term ‘App store’. Apple had been trying to force Amazon ( and by default others…) to stop them using the term app store for [...]
Microsoft disputes App Store trademark
Microsoft have started to dispute an Apple application to trademark the words “App Store”. The original submission was filed by Apple back in 2008 but it’s only now that Microsoft have filed a dispute. Windows Phones currently come with an [...]
