New iTunes 10 Icon Does Not Suck. But It’s Irrelevant
Posted on September 4th, 2010 | 2 CommentsDid you have that ‘Where-did-that-come-from?‘ feeling when Steve Jobs unveiled the new iTunes icon during the media event earlier this week? Apple has a logical answer to the makeover. The sale of digital music is fast outpacing CD sales and is supposed to overtake the sale of these physical goods by next year. So it’s [...]
Prince Of Persia Classic On iPhone/iPad For $0.99
Posted on May 29th, 2010 | 0 CommentsI can’t wait to finish this post and rush to my iPhone. Prince of Persia is surely one of the most loved games of all time and it is now available on the App Store. Ubisoft has announced that the full retro classic version of Prince of Persia will be available as a universal application [...]
iPad App Store Goes International
Posted on May 20th, 2010 | 0 CommentsApple is launching the iPad outside the US in a week from now. Initially, the launch shall happen in a select list of nine countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and Britain. Now, in preparation of the launch, Apple is noted to have opened up the iPad App Store internationally. Multiple [...]
Google Chrome Web Store : What Is It?
Posted on May 20th, 2010 | 0 CommentsApple is well credited for having revolutionized the mobile app market. Thanks to the terrific success of the App Store, we have every other platform owner conceiving an app store for their platform. Now Google Chrome Web Store may well be inspired by the Apple App Store. But the intentions are clearly different – Google [...]
Mac App Store Rumor False – Steve Jobs Clarifies
Posted on April 26th, 2010 | 0 CommentsA couple of days back, we had a shocker of a rumor that claimed that Apple could soon be integrating its Mac OS X platform to the iTunes store so that only Apple approved software could be downloaded and installed on the platform. Steve Jobs has now clarified that this is plainly a rumor and [...]
Apple To Integrate Mac OS X 10.7 With App Store
Posted on April 24th, 2010 | 0 CommentsThe days of an open environs at Mac OS X could soon be coming to an end if a recent rumor is anything to go by. According to App developer RixStep, Cupertino may start signing up with developers starting early autumn of this year and like with the iPhone and iPad, users will have to [...]
Explicit Apps Back On App Store?
Posted on March 27th, 2010 | 0 CommentsLots of Apple stories today. Few weeks back, Apple stunned app developers by deleting all iPhone apps with sexual content overnight. No reasons given for those apps, some of which had existed since the time App Store came to town. Phil Schiller, the head of Apple’s worldwide product marketing did however put the blame on [...]
Google Business App Store Launching This Week
Posted on March 8th, 2010 | 0 CommentsEarly last month, there were reports that Google was working on an app store a-la Apple App Store in order to cater to the business customers. We are now hearing that this App Store is up and ready to launch this week. Sources close to Mashable have revealed that Google’s Business App Store will be [...]
App Store To Include Separate Category For Explicit Content
Posted on February 25th, 2010 | 0 CommentsThere has been a furore over the way Apple banned a majority of iPhone apps with sexual content over the past week citing customer complaints. That has apparently not gone down well among developers who were grounded to the floor from revenues of several thousands a day. Now, it appears that a separate category titled [...]
Google Launching Business App Store
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 | 0 CommentsMore than two million businesses today use either the free or paid version of Google Apps. This is in stark contrast to the over 500 million users of Microsoft Office. While one of the important reasons why Google Apps is yet to pose a significant challenge to Microsoft is undoubtedly the apprehensions about storing data in [...]