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• More smartphones, apps in use in the US

  By Daniel Ionescu | 18 May, 2012 05:53

  One in two US mobile subscribers now has a smartphone, fueling the American appetite for apps, according to a Nielsen study. In the past year, the average number of apps on a smartphone has increased from 32 to 41, a 28 percent jump, according to the research.

• NEWS GRAB: latest from Adobe, Gartner, MSPA, N-able, LifeSize, Regus, and Yellowfin

  By Nermin Bajric | 04 April, 2012 14:33

  Top news in education and technology adoption, market analysis, partnerships, and mobile BI

• Apple's 25 billionth app download is a Disney game

  By Jon Gold | 06 March, 2012 05:46

  Apple's App Store reached its highly publicised 25 billion unit mark when Qingdao, China, resident Chunli Fu downloaded the free version of Disney's Where's My Water? game.

• Window shopping: A look at the Windows Store

  By Jared Newman | 02 March, 2012 10:49

  With the launch of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft has embraced the age of the app and opened its own app store - the Windows Store.

• Mozilla's open Web app store will launch next week

  By Katherine Noyes | 23 February, 2012 06:32

  Earlier this month Mozilla laid out a roadmap for its Firefox browser over the course of 2012, and on Wednesday it made good on one key piece of those plans.

• 5 Apps Banned from Apple's App Store in 2011

  By Eric Mack | 15 December, 2011 05:13

  Apple gave the app, Drivers License, the boot this week after concerned politicians claimed it encouraged identity theft. Drivers License joins a short list of apps that Apple gave boot in 2011 because Apple either didn't get the joke, offered too much functionality, or that Apple felt was downright dangerous.

• Apple's Mac App Store Tops 100 Million Downloads

  By Ian Paul | 13 December, 2011 19:00

  Apple's Mac App Store has delivered more than 100 million downloads since launching in early January, the company announced Monday.  The Mac App Store is Apple's online retail outlet for PC applications for Macs running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or higher. While topping 100 million downloads is a far cry from the one billion downloads the iOS App Store sees every month, it proves the Mac App Store is popular with Mac users.

• Android Market celebrates 10 billion downloads with 10-cent app sale

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 08 December, 2011 01:28

  Guess what? Your favorite Android app may be just 10 cents right now, thanks to the Android Market's 10 billion downloads celebration.

• Symantec: Building on specialisation

  By Patrick Budmar | 29 July, 2011 08:41

  ARN caught up with Symantec Pacific region vice-president and managing director, Craig Scroggie, during Symantec Partner Engage 2011 to talk about the security vendor’s channel strategy, partners specialising and the current security landscape.

• NEWS FOCUS: Mobiles, tablets and app downloads set to soar

  By Hafizah Osman | 19 July, 2011 11:42

  Media tablet shipments in A/ NZ for 2011 are expected to be double those of 2010, according to analyst firm, IDC.

• Amazon's Android app store: Steve Jobs doesn't get it

  By JR Raphael | 18 March, 2011 09:27

  Roll out the welcome wagon, Android fans: It looks like you'll soon have a new place to shop.

• The 8 best iPad apps -- so far

  By Mitch Wagner | 14 April, 2010 04:35

  Apple's iPad has been available for a short time, and you can already find apps to watch streaming movies, manage your Web passwords, use Twitter, do word processing and more.

• Android, iPhone, BlackBerry: Which OS is best for app development?

  By Brad Reed | 04 December, 2009 06:00

  Let's say that you're a software developer who has created a hot new application for smartphones that you're certain is about to take the world by storm. Your work isn't quite done and here's the problem: not only will your brilliant and innovative application have to compete with several other applications that have similar ambitions, but it will have to compete with them over multiple platforms.

• Five Fixes for Apple's App Store

  By Tom Kaneshige | 16 October, 2009 05:22

  From the Google voice fiasco to this week's Pepsi pick-up line app, Apple's vaunted app store is showing its weaknesses. CIO.com's Tom Kaneshige suggests five steps Apple should take to make the store better for users and developers.

• Apps Store approvals still make no sense, Spotify or not

  By David Coursey | 09 September, 2009 04:36

  Much is being made of supposed improvements to Apple's App Store, but the approval of a music service called Spotify only raises more questions. And the recent approval of Loopt was a major step backward even Phil Schiller may be unable to fix.

• Top 10 reader iPhone annoyances (and how to fix them)

  By Jared Newman | 07 August, 2009 00:50

  Who knew there were so many iPhone annoyances? Last week we listed ten common failings of the iPhone and discussed how to correct them. Maybe it was naïve to restrict the list to ten entries. Reader feedback suggests that iPhone users have no shortage of annoyances they'd like to see solved.

• Apple anger: Our 5 biggest iPhone beefs

  By JR Raphael | 06 August, 2009 09:17

  Well, Apple's done it again. The company has censored yet another app from its precious App Store, this time because it contained "objectionable" words. The app in question: a dictionary.