Posts Tagged ‘Apps’

Even though Apple is taking them to court over the "App Store" naming, Amazon's Android app store is now live.  Their first free app of the day is Angry Birds Rio and you can get a free copy by visiting the store today. After the free promo is will be $.99 for Angry Birds Rio. They ...

Android Market is getting a major overhaul over the next couple of weeks. This update will be for folks using Android 1.6 and up which encompasses most Android smartphones. When you first enter the Android Market you will see a carousel of promoted apps on the home and category screens, Live wallpapers and widgets will have ...

Android developers will now be able to assign content ratings to applications just like movies, video games and music. Google announced the following rating system. All Pre-Teen Teen Mature Starting next week, developers will be required to assign a rating before uploading their apps. Existing applications default to Mature if the developer doesn't update their listing within a few weeks. Google ...

It was reported a few months back that Android Market had grown to 70,000 applications. Well, now Android Market has hit six digits as Google has officially tweeted that there are 100,000 apps via their Android Developer Twitter account. In my eyes the argument that iOS is superior to Android based on Apps alone is unjustified. ...

Currently, there are only 14 countries which have paid application support in their local Android Market. Well, that is all about to change in the coming weeks, based on an email sent out to developers indicating more countries will join the paid app ranks. “Over the next few weeks, we’ll be adding paid apps support ...

Could you use $50,000? Sprint announced that they are teaming up with Wired, Reddit and Ars Technica to kick off the Sprint 4G App Challenge. Sprint currently carries the only 4G devices, the HTC Evo 4G and the Epic 4G, so it only makes sense for them to provide this contest for ...