Samsung to launch its own App Store at Mobile World Congress
Apple has shown how a mobile application store can generate massive revenues without much of a hassle.
Google launched a similar store for Android applications.
Now, Samsung is expected to launch a similar mobile app store at the upcoming Mobile World Congress.
This app store is likely [...]
Google iPhone App has a Bells and Whistles feature
Google recently updated their official Apple iPhone app to add some cool features.
However, they had hidden some additional settings in this application which apparently no one discovered.
This hidden section is named Bells and Whistles and it has been revealed by the developers on the Google [...]
Google Android App Market set to get paid applications
Search engine giant Google has alerted the developers that they are nearing the launch of paid applications on the Google Android Market.
The company is also working on launching this mobile applications store in more markets.
Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands would soon get access [...]
Moblin Enabling Center opens in Taipei
Moblin mobile operating system has received a tremendous boost with the opening of the Moblin Enabling Center in Taipei on Tuesday.
This center would concentrate on developing mobile computing devices powered with this Linux based mobile platform.
Taiwan based hardware companies would use this center as the testing ground for their mobile [...]
Palm “Nova” OS already in wild as per the company
Palm chief executive Ed Colligan has stated that their upcoming mobile operating platform Nova is already in the wild.
This means that mobile service providers and developers already are playing with devices loaded with this new OS.
He added that the company is betting on this platform to [...]
Symbian: Nokia acquisition of the company complete
Symbian has announced that Nokia has now completed the acquisition of the company.
Symbian happens to be the world’s largest smartphone platform company.
Nokia had earlier this year announced their plans to acquire the remaining stake in Symbian with the aim of making it available through Open Source platform.
They are [...]
XenDesktop and XenApp coming to Apple iPhone
Citrix has announced that they are working on XenDesktop and XenApp client and server software for the Apple iPhone platform.
They aim to make available these applications by the first half of next year on the Apple iPhone.
A company representative said: “We expect to have it sooner rather than later.”
Citrix [...]
Wireless Podcast downloads might be coming to Apple iPhone/iPod Touch
More signals are coming which points towards a new feature in the upcoming software update for Apple iPod Touch and Apple iPhone.
Online sources are pointing towards images from a German blog which shows the device download podcasts over a 3G network.
Apple has not confirmed this new [...]
Steve Ballmer not impressed with Google Android
It is not a surprise that Steve Ballmer is not impressed with Google Android.
He said that the mobile operating system has no revenue model and it makes no sense for Google to be involved in it.
He said: “They can hire smart guys, hire a lot of people, blah dee [...]
Google Android Marketplace: 70% revenues goes to developers
Google has now launched the Android Marketplace mobile store which hosts the third party applications for use on G1 mobile phone.
The store for now offers only free applications.
Google said that they would allow developers to sell their applications for a price starting next year.
The company added that the [...]
