Apple Inc., which launched its Apple App Store in 2008, is near on having 25 billion apps downloads and is giving out $10,000 to a lucky customer. Apple owes its success to its visitors, especially those who visit and download apps from its App Store. Now users will see a countdown ticker, counting how many apps were downloaded in real time. “As of today, nearly...
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After releasing a free update to Street Fighter 4: Volt, Capcom has released two classic games on the Apple App Store. Now, classic gamers can relive some of the old coin-operated games with Final Fight and the classic Street Fighter 2 for iOS. Final Fight, which was included in the Capcom Arcade app that was released earlier this year, is a side scrolling beat-’em-up...
Apple has approved the Google+ app for the iPhone and has already posted it to the iTunes App Store. Currently, only an iPhone version of the Google+ app is available and it is still unclear whether Google will be releasing an iPad-specific app. Google+ is Google’s attempt to compete directly with social networking site Facebook. It was launched earlier this month...
Apple may have lost its first attempt to keep Amazon from using the term “App Store” to refer to its online store for mobile applications, but that has not slowed the company down. In the latest bullying incident made by Apple Inc., GetJar, an independent site for free mobile apps, was issued a cease and desist letter from Apple’s attorneys over the use...
After recently hitting the 15 billion app download mark, analysts say that downloads from Apple’s App Store will increase 61 percent this year, while the selling price of apps will also be up by 14 percent. Analysts Piper Jaffray and Gene Munster said that the new numbers from their latest App Store model reflect announcement of Apple last week that more than 15...
A US judge denied Apple’s attempt to stop retailer Amazon.com from using the term “App Store” for its third-party outlet for Android apps. The name is questioned when Apple Inc. filed a suit against the online retail site because it has trademarked the name “App Store,” Apple spokesperson Kristin Huguet said that Apple has asked Amazon to...
Apple has just announced that a massive 15 billion downloads have been reached from their App Store. The 15 billion apps have been downloaded by 200 million iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users. The Cupertino tech giant also announced that its App Store has more than 425,000 apps available to download, with 100,000+ being available exclusively for the iPad. These are very...
The Sky News app for the iPhone and iPod touch has been a firm favourite for people seeking the latest updates, videos and even quirky stories since it launched on the app store. Many iPad users have been asking when they would get a dedicated app, well they’ll be asking no longer as it is now available to download from the app store. Instead of simply plugging in stories...
Some of the most popular apps at the moment are ones that add to existing features of smartphones, some add a feature that is otherwise missing whilst others enhance existing ones. We were therefore very interested when we found this iLazer app which allows users add fluorescent lasers to existing pictures – this is literally what every Star Wars fan dreams of. Users...
The mighty Angry Birds has been toppled from its perch by another high flying game called Tiny Wings (okay we will stop using puns now). The game was actually released last week and has made a rapid climb up the charts until it hit the top today. The 2D platform is much like old school games like sonic the hedgehog in appearance and is based around a bird who can’t fly...
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