Category Archives: Apps

Phone 7 Developers Limited To 20 Apps Per Day

By doris | Published: June 3, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Microsoft is restricting the certification of new mobile apps for Windows Phone Marketplace to no more than 20 a day per developer. The move is the latest sign that Microsoft’s mobile-app strategy continues to be about positioning the marketplace as a source of high-quality mobile software. Microsoft’s aim is to maintain [...]

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AT&T removes Android app restrictions

By doris | Published: May 21, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (WIRED) — After years of restrictions, AT&T will now allow Android smartphone customers to install applications downloaded outside the official Android Market. The recently launched Samsung Infuse is the first of AT&T’s phones capable of installing apps from outside sources, including unofficial app stores or web links, a process called sideloading.

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Amazon Cloud Player lets you play your music from anywhere

By doris | Published: March 30, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (Mashable) — Amazon has just entered the streaming music business with the launch of Cloud Player, a music player that lets anyone upload their music to Amazon’s servers and play them via the web or Android. The new Cloud Player service adds a new “Save to Amazon Cloud Drive” button for [...]

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Apple sues Amazon over ‘app store’ name

By doris | Published: March 24, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (Fast Company) — Amazon just revealed its own specially curated version of the Android Marketplace, but has chosen to label it the “Appstore.” Apple, in turn, has now sued Android for trademark violation. The move is a not-so-subtle shot across Amazon’s bows. The suit was filed last week, but has emerged [...]

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Verizon vs AT&T iPad 2 plans: Which is cheaper?

By doris | Published: March 13, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — If you are getting the iPad 2, are you confused about what data plan is right for you? You’re not alone. Trying to figure out how much you’ll pay doesn’t require a degree in advanced mathematics, but it could help. That’s because there are a total of [...]

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iPad prices drop as iPad 2 approaches

By doris | Published: March 6, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — With the iPad 2 going on sale in a week, Apple appears to be working to unload its remaining inventory of the tablet computer’s first generation. It takes some poking around, but on Apple’s website, the entry-level 16 GB iPads (Wi-Fi only) were on sale Thursday for $399 — [...]

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Nokia, Microsoft join forces against Google, Apple

By doris | Published: February 11, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HELSINKI — Nokia and Microsoft have teamed up to take on Google and Apple in the fast-growing smart phone market. In a major change of strategy, Nokia said it would use Windows Phone as the software platform for its smart phones as part of new chief executive Stephen Elop’s overhaul of [...]

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Google announces Web-based Android Market

By doris | Published: February 2, 2011

Full Story at CNET News The announcement was made today at an event where Google is showing off the new Android 3.0 software known as Honeycomb, which is designed specifically for tablets. Google also used the event, held at company headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., to take the wraps off the new Web-based Android Market. [...]

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Father’s app lets disabled son ‘speak’ thru iPad

By doris | Published: December 27, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com RALEIGH, N.C. – Victor Pauca will have plenty of presents to unwrap on Christmas, but the 5-year-old Winston-Salem boy has already received the best gift he’ll get this year: the ability to communicate. Victor has a rare genetic disorder that delays development of a number of skills, including speech. To help [...]

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Paramount offers movie ‘apps’ on Windows Phone 7

By doris | Published: December 15, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES — Paramount Digital Entertainment said on Tuesday that it will distribute 10 of its films in the form of applications, or “apps,” designed to play on smart phones running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 software. Phones running Windows Phone 7 went on sale in the U.S. recently, and directly compete [...]

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Google’s new app store: Are you confused yet?

By doris | Published: December 14, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Google this week unveiled its Chrome Web Store, which aims to do for the Web what Apple’s App Store did for mobile devices: It provides a place to explore and “install” Web-based applications. The launch was announced alongside a new netbook running Chrome OS, Google’s browser-centric operating system. And [...]

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Review: Google Reader app for Android

By doris | Published: December 5, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — It sure took them a while, but this week Google finally released an Android app for Google Reader, the company’s free news-aggregation software. I’ve been waiting for this. I’m a longtime user of Google Reader, and find it especially useful when I’m keeping my eye on niche topics, rather [...]

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