Features

• 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.

• Will Apple's first 'approved' iPhone porn app last?

  By David Murphy | 26 June, 2009 01:12

  "We uploaded topless pics today. This is the first app to have nudity," said Allen Leung in an interview with Macenstein. He's the developer behind the "Hottest Girls" application, currently bringing scantily-clad women--and now those of the bare-chested variety--to your iPhone or iPod Touch device for a mere $2 installation fee.

• Is 2009 the year of the app store?

  By Paul Krill | 04 June, 2009 08:21

  The year 2009 is shaping up as the year of the app store, a Sun executive conjectured Wednesday during a panel session at the JavaOne conference.

• Best mobile entertainment apps for your smartphone

  By Daniel Ionescu | 22 May, 2009 01:08

  You've spent your hard-earned cash on a brand new smartphone. Now it's time to put that money to work and turn your new acquisition into an entertainment powerhouse. The number of mobile entertainment apps out there is incomprehensibly large, and relatively few of them truly shine. Never fear: We've scoured the Web and found the best music, video, and gaming apps for your iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, or Symbian smartphone. Most are free, but for some--as you'd expect with top-notch entertainment--a price tag is attached.

• In a land of Internet nomads, will iPhone be a legacy?

  By Steve Patterson | 24 April, 2009 05:34

  Google Ventures Rich Miner recently predicted at a conference in Cambridge, Mass., that a significant number of people will disconnect from the wired Internet in 2 to 3 years, abandoning their computers for mobile devices.

• Will Apple's App Store change the desktop app market?

  By Ryan Faas | 30 January, 2009 01:23

  There's no doubt that Apple's iPhone has changed the landscape of the smart-phone industry, and indeed the mobile phone business as a whole. But one of the most revolutionary advances that Apple offered up isn't in the iPhone itself: It's the mechanism the company developed to distribute non-Apple applications to iPhone and iPod Touch users.