Content in Motion: Archive

Apptopia’s New Marketplace Will Help Broker Sales... →

(TechCrunch) That is, selling the source code and the IP of the app.

Jan 8th

iOS Closes Out The Year With 52% Mobile Web Market... →

(TechCrunch)

Jan 2nd

Android Market Downloads by Category →

(Google+)

Dec 8th

EPUB 3: Building a standard on unstable ground →

(O’Reilly Radar) We need to let go of the digital book — the one that doesn’t have a print antecedent — and see where it will go, knowing full well that it won’t translate back to print. I think that’s still a scary idea to many people, but as the ebook market expands, growth in print-incompatible books is inevitable.

Nov 30th

Google move hints at Chrome for Android →

(CNET)

Sep 26th

Orange’s Open Mobile App Directory wants to be the... →

(VentureBeat)

Sep 15th

Mobile app ad inventory is growing at staggering... →

(VentureBeat)

Aug 31st

HTML5 and native apps: A winning mobile strategy →

(VentureBeat)

Aug 25th

Android Users Prefer Native over Web Apps, Study... →

(ReadWriteWeb)

Aug 18th

ePayments Week: The economics of in-app purchases →

(O’Reilly Radar) only 30% of purchases were for things users could keep (like a new suit of armor or a building), while 68% was spent on things we use up getting to the next level (like Smurfberries or fertilizer). Personalization items, like decorations, accounted for 2%.

Aug 18th

Yahoo Tries Its Hand At Mobile App Search →

(TechCrunch)

Jun 19th

Developer Economics 2011 – Why app stores are a... →

[VisionMobile]

Jun 18th

GetJar buys Infrinity to improve app discovery →

(VentureBeat)

May 24th

7digital opens its music download store to Android →

(TechCrunch)

May 18th

There Are Now More Free Apps For Android Than For... →

(TechCrunch)

May 15th

App search engine Quixey lets developers manage... →

(VentureBeat) Quixey, a new startup that’s developing a search engine dedicated to apps, announced today that it will also make life easier for developers by giving them an easy way to manage their apps across multiple stores.

May 12th

Nokia’s Ovi stats impress →

(GoMo News)

Apr 29th

Orange UK launches new Android e-book store →

(The Next Web) UK mobile operator Orange has become the latest mobile company to launch an e-book store for Android devices, introducing the Orange Book Club, a platform that directly bills an Orange users account via a “one click buy” function.

Mar 18th

Amazon’s Android Appstore app pricing strategy... →

(The Next Web) Today, a number of Android applications and their prices have leaked out after AndroidNews.de stumbled upon a placeholder page on the Amazon website. Whilst the retail giant will require Android users to download a third-party application to download the apps, Amazon will showcase apps on its product pages, listing them as recommended items as they would any other item.

Mar 16th

AppBrain Launches AppBrain Android Stats →

(Android Central)

Mar 14th

Opera retaliates by opening its own Opera Mobile... →

(GoMo News)

Mar 9th

Chomp May Have Just Solved The Nightmare That Is... →

(TechCrunch)

Mar 1st

Ebookling, the disruptive darling of indie... →

(The Next Web) Ebookling gives content creators from bloggers, cook book authors to rock star musicians and documentary film makers, the resources they need to become ‘authorpreneurs,’ and make enough money to live off of what they do best. It’s a connective platform for creative folk, not only can authors sell their work but there’s also a page for “mercenaries” to provide publishing...

Feb 25th

Android Apps Spotted Running on BlackBerry Devices →

(ReadWriteWeb)

Feb 25th

Nokia’s Ovi App Wizard Magically Creates Mobile... →

(GigaOM)

May 11th

Paypal To Offer In App Purchases On iPhone and... →

(The Next Web)

Apr 25th

paythru launches in-app mobile payment service →

(GoMo News)

Apr 16th

Fox, NBC and Other Broadcast Giants Launch Joint... →

(TechCrunch) The release says that the consortium will utilize existing “broadcast spectrum,” to enable member companies to provide content to mobile devices, including live and on-demand video, local and national news from print and electronic sources, as well as sports and entertainment programming.

Apr 15th

China helps Nokia’s Ovi store to 1.6m app... →

(The Next Web)

Apr 15th

Apple changes rules on iPhone app analytics →

(VentureBeat) Device Data may not be provided or disclosed to a third party without Apple’s prior written consent. Accordingly, the use of third party software in Your Application to collect and send Device Data to a third party for processing or analysis is expressly prohibited.

Apr 14th

Vodafone opens JIL.org to developers →

(Mobile Europe) Developers can now publish apps to the Vodafone 360 Shop through the JIL.org website to selected Vodafone operating companies in Europe. Developers can choose to select from one, some or all of the selected markets for each app they publish.

Apr 9th

AppAware discovers Android apps based on recent... →

(Androinica)

Apr 8th

Another survey says Android will soon take over... →

(Android Central)

Apr 8th

Apple's App Store Still Ranks Highest in Customer... →

(ReadWriteWeb)

Mar 24th

The Mobile OS Market →

(GigaOM)

Mar 18th

The Top 15 Brands on the App Store Might Surprise... →

(MobileCrunch)

Mar 18th

Microsoft Immediately Stumbles in Quest for... →

(Fast Company) The newly released app-design guide reveals a lot more about Microsoft than they probably intended.

Mar 17th

Android Market now has 30,000 to 35,000 apps →

(Androinica)

Mar 16th

Mobango claims a 500% increase in mobile appls... →

(GoMo News) Mobango is claiming to have discovered a successful new model to fuel downloads. It claims the system – known as Pay per Promoted Downloads platform (PPD) - generated a 500 per cent increase in downloads last year [2009].

Mar 16th

Prepare for an iPad App Explosion: Developer... →

(ReadWriteWeb)

Mar 15th

Analysis: When Working Day's Done, iPhones, and... →

(Fast Company)

Mar 15th

Will Books Be The Next To Go In Apple’s App Store... →

(TechCrunch) Before developers get alarmed, I should make it clear that I haven’t heard anything about Apple removing the myriad book apps from the App Store. But given the impending release of Apple’s own iBooks app alongside the iPad, and the recent App Store cleanup spree, I won’t be at all surprised if they do something to change the way books are treated on the platform.

Mar 9th

DARPA Announces Military App Store →

(Distimo) “DARPA is seeking applications to fill a diverse set of needs, including the tactical battlefield, humanitarian missions, disaster recovery, and other mission areas. Example functionalities include command and control, reporting, mission planning, intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance, real-time collaboration, geospatial visualization, analysis, language translation, training, and...

Mar 7th

Books Now Outnumber Games on the iPhone →

(GigaOM)

Mar 2nd

European Union issues new rules for mobile... →

(MobileBurn) According to the Associated Press, a German traveler had a €46,000 bill after streaming a television program while roaming in France. Under the new rules, that traveler will be alerted as fees rack up, so that these exorbitant bills can be eliminated.

Mar 1st

The (Mobile) Empire Strikes Back: Nokia Chief's... →

(Fast Company)

Feb 27th

e-Books: Averting a Digital Horror Story →

(BusinessWeek) Amazon.com’s growing might and the sizzling success of the Kindle has publishers terrified. Hachette, Harlequin, and others are fighting back

Jan 6th

Google launching “Pay per Call” mobile ads →

(The Next Web)

Jan 5th

Google Details Android Fragmentation →

(mocoNews)

Dec 27th

Motorola Launching Own Android App Store →

(Distimo)

Dec 24th