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Tapjoy and PapayaMobile Team To Deliver Social Game Discovery on Android

Azam Khan — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:00:58 +0000

Tapjoy and PapayaMobile today announced that they are partnering to launch Social Marketplace that provides users with recommendations on which apps to download. Both companies have released a flurry of announcements recently and this particular news could be great for developers and users alike. More after the jump. continued…

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72 Percent of iPhone App Revenue Comes from Apps Featuring In-App Purchases

Azam Khan — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:20:02 +0000

Distimo, the app store market tracking service, continues to reveal the importance of the freemium model. Free app downloads have grown 34 percent since 2010 in contrast to paid app downloads which grew by 7 percent. In the past the firm also reported a 10x growth in freemium revenue from top releases on the App Store. continued…

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Apple’s AirPlay Mirroring Means iPad Games on Your TV — Will This Affect the Games Industry?

Azam Khan — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:50:21 +0000

As the lines between console and mobile continue to blur, Apple’s eyes remain fixated on conquering the living room experience. Its introduction of AirPlay Mirroring could be a key blow to console makers like Sony and Microsoft who are still trying to gain traction on the mobile frontier. The plethora of content on Apple’s App Store combined with portable devices could be the reason why Apple will be the first to deliver a seamless gaming experience. continued…

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Can Apple Capture User Intent With Siri?

Azam Khan — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:50:45 +0000

It may be easy to pass Siri off as another voice recognition application but its domain stretches beyond AI algorithms, continual learning and contextually aware systems. The new Siri stands tall as Apple’s flagship feature to its iPhone 4S and for good reasons. More after the jump. continued…

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Android Beats iPhone in Australian Smartphone Market

Bilal Hameed — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:47:59 +0000

Android has outnumbered the sales of iPhone for the first time in Australia. During the last 12 weeks Android accounted for 42.9% of the total smartphones sold in Australia compared to 37.2% of Apple’s iPhone, according to new figures revealed by Kantar’s ComTech WorldPanel.

If we consider only the last four weeks, Android stands on 54% of the smartphones sale (compared to 29 per cent for Apple). This gives a clear indication of Android’s increasing dominance in Australian market synonymous to the US and Western Europe. The recent rise of Android in Australia can also be attributed to the impressive new devices launched by Samsung and HTC in recent months, namely the Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC’s Desire S, Desire Z and Incredible S.

Kantar’s statistics are based on regular interviews every four weeks with a panel of 10,000 Australians aged 16+ ( representation of all population’s age, gender, region and working status). Kantar doesn’t pay the participants to do the survey but do send out gift vouchers as a token of appreciation. The surveys also measure stats such as the actual ownership, purchases, and usage of mobile devices.

Despite the clear statistics, analyst like Foad Fafaghi (from Tersyte) still believe the glory of Android will be short lived as people may be holding off their iPhone purchases in anticipation of the iPhone 5. He thinks that the sale figures of iPhone will lead once again when the next iPhone comes out.

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South Koreans To Sue Apple Over Privacy Violation Of iPhone User Information

Bilal Hameed — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:35:44 +0000

A group of nearly 27,000 South Koreans have filed a lawsuit against Apple for a whopping $26 million, claiming privacy violations on the collection of iPhone user location information. Apple spokesman Steve Park in Seoul has declined to comment on the situation.

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Find New Music with Frenzapp

Reid McCarter — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:30:40 +0000

Continued efforts toward translating community-based music fandom to the digital age are always welcome — even though the process can be made tricky by the fact that this type of work only succeeds when many users are on board with the same software. Frenzapp Music, like so many others, hopes to solve this common problem by becoming the go-to app for everyone’s music sharing needs.

Bitsmedia, developers of Frenzapp Music, are positioning the recent release as a companion version to their original app-sharing software, Frenzapp. Like its predecessor, Music is easy to navigate, aesthetically pleasing and laden with useful features (like seamless Twitter, Facebook and iTunes Music Store integration) and only needs widespread support to become a truly outstanding social music tool.

While it’s impossible to predict whether or not Frenzapp will catch on, its excellent design and developer pedigree make it worth a look. The app’s foundation is definitely strong enough (particularly impressive aspects of the program include streaming song previews, location-based recommendation scanning and full playback controls for all tunes stored on a user’s iOS device) but, like all software of its ilk, it will sink or swim based on its popularity.

If enough people decide to take Frenzapp for a spin we could have a beautiful thing on our hands. One of these days there must be some sort of uniting of the collective unconscious, a wondrous, universal decision to all download the same social music app. And for that hyperbolic utopia to become reality we all have to agree on the best available software. So why not check out Frenzapp Music through its iTunes App Store or official site for a start? It is free after all!

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5 Areas Where Facebook’s Project Spartan Will Impact Apple’s App Stores

Azam Khan — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:00:52 +0000

With over 700 million users worldwide it seems like the right time to get into the mobile scene while it is still growing. By 2014 analysts say that over 1 billion people will have smart phones and Facebook’s reach will be greater based on current trends. More after the jump.

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Parker Lets Your iPhone or Android Find Available Parking Spaces

Bilal Hameed — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:17:53 +0000

Are you tired of circling around the block and walking a mile back to your destination? Streetline now has the solution for smart parking with its iPhone/Android based app, Parker. Parker shows you the available parking spaces with their exact location, using live information from sensors. Parker also shows you where convenient parking lots and garages are.

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Apple Patent Suggests their Cloud Will be the Fluffiest of All

Richard Howard — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:45:42 +0000

In a recent article on the status of the could music battle between Amazon, Google and Apple, I tendered my opinion that victory wouldn’t be based on chronological order, but on a litany of factors. I also touched on the fact that Apple has a storied history of entering the market later than competitors with a superior product and almost immediately leaving said competitors to fight for a very distant second place. Well I’m not one who revels in saying ‘I told you so’ (that’s an absolute lie, I love it) but a recently unearthed patent application strongly suggests that Apple’s cloud-based music service could be a game changer.

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Scam Alert: Don’t Trust Emails From Apple About iPhone5

Bilal Hameed — Wed, 25 May 2011 09:20:37 +0000

Fraudulent emails have started surfacing that announce the imminent availability of the new iPhone 5GS from coming Friday. These emails are part of a new wave of phishing scams and are likely to be an attempt to hack Apple IDs and passwords.

The Apple ID of a user is his/her core identity in the eyes of Apple Inc, and any cyber criminal can get to enjoy all the services that Apple has to offer on your behalf. The hacker would have unlimited access to all of user apps and can utilize the user’s money (which is some cases is a lot) to buy new ones.

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A Status Report On The Cloud Music Warzone

Richard Howard — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:50:58 +0000

I don’t care if you’re a war buff or what sport you’re into, you’re going to be hard pressed to find a more back and forth battle than that for supremacy of the cloud music market right now. Increasing definitive headlines all proved to be premature: “Amazon wins cloud war”, “Google and Apple will acquire licensing before releasing music lockers” and “Apple to beat Google on cloud music.” Now that the dust is somewhat beginning to settle, the only thing that can be said with complete surety is that the enormous number of variables involved promises a very interesting future for the business of cloud computing.

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WATCH: White iPhone 4 Is Really Hard To See [Funny Or Die]

Megan O'Neill — Thu, 12 May 2011 12:50:32 +0000

After much anticipation, the white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and, along with it, a hilarious spoof commercial from Funny Or Die. The commercial, described on the site simply as “The first commercial for the new iPhone 4,” starts out like a real Apple advertisement, with a close up shot of the device and a voiceover introducing it but then the guy holding the iPhone drops it and…oops!…he can’t find it because it blends in to the white background set.
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Mobage Launches in Japan on iOS & Android, API Coming June 15

Leo Sark — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:30:31 +0000

The mobile social gaming network Mobage, the offspring of DeNA and ngmoco, has finally launched in Japan on April 26 on iOS and Android. Mobage has 20 million users from ngmoco and 25 million users from DeNA, bringing its total starting userbase to over 45 million players. Currently Mobage is in talks with major cell phone manufacturers to OEM its app on their devices.

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Some MacBooks (2011-Pro, 2010-Air) Get OS X Supplemental Update to Fix System Hangs

Todd Ogasawara — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:47:03 +0000

MacRumors reported that Apple released a supplemental update for the MacBook Air (late 2010) 13-inch model to fix a freezing problem associated with using iTunes on the Air 13.

Apple Issues Software Update Addressing System Hanging on 13-inch MacBook Air
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