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Photo Shown above is the Skype app which allows users to make calls and send instant messages to anyone else with a Skype account for free. Image credit: Apple October saw silicon.com cast its eye over the top... [12 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Apple's App Store has been a runaway success since it launched in 2008. Fortunately Apple's app approval team woke up to the gathering storm and Snell could finally... [06 Nov 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News Wave will eventually have its own app store, similar to the one offered for Apple's iPhone, where developers will sell Wave apps to businesses and consumers. ERP software maker SAP has designed an... [28 Oct 2009]
Photos: Top iPhone apps for business
Photo Users can also use the app to click through to ba.com, where they can book flights, manage bookings and check in online. However, the App Store currently stocks more than 2,000 business apps and, with... [27 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment With the recent launch of Microsoft's app store, Windows Marketplace for Mobiles, more will undoubtedly follow. The explosion of increasingly sophisticated mobile devices, coupled with the recent app... [27 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet The Wikitude app (pictured below) made by Mobilizy was among the first to exploit AR in the smartphone world - it used the G1's hardware coupled with data from the Panoramio, Qype and Wikipedia web services to identify... [27 Oct 2009]
'A full-scale switch to Macs is laughable'
Comment Another reader, an iPhone and Mac app developer from San Francisco, added: "Years and years ago it was demonstrated that it costs no more to support a heterogeneous environment of Macs and PCs than it does to support a... [13 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Symbian
Cheat Sheet There was pressure on another front too: Apple's creation of the App Store put third-party applications and services at the centre of the smartphone. However, it was the swathe of software makers that... [01 Oct 2009]
Daniel Ek
AS Profile Spotify is now also available via the Apple App Store as well as the Android mobile phone platform, further extending its potential to compete with iTunes. Daniel Ek co-founded the Spotify on-demand... [29 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up Then again, the Apple fanboys have often claimed almost supernatural powers for the iPhone, so maybe Noel's app fits perfectly. You may think 30 million unit sales in two years is impressive but that's... [25 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome
Cheat Sheet For a beta product and an app that practically all computer users already have on their PCs, that's pretty impressive. Well, the web browser market has long been dominated by Microsoft's Internet Explorer and although... [22 Sep 2009]
Google: Apple rejected Google Voice for iPhone
News Google told the Federal Communications Commission in a redacted letter to the agency a few weeks ago that Apple did in fact reject its Google Voice application from the App Store. Google dropped its... [21 Sep 2009]
Naked CIO: Beware the mobile app frenzy
Comment But the carnivorous, unstructured, chaotic frenzy to develop the killer app does concern me from a CIO perspective. Also make sure you know your customers and how they use mobile devices, and that any application is... [21 Sep 2009]
iPhone still king of apps: But don't ignore Android
News As a result, Apple now has the largest mobile App Store on the market with more than 75,000 applications. The fact that Apple's App Store has had more than one billion... [11 Sep 2009]
Photos: Steve Jobs takes the stage as iPods, iTunes and iPhone revamped
Photo These show up in the App Store app, as well as in iTunes, and function in a similar fashion to Genius for music. At its music-oriented press conference Wednesday morning in San Francisco,... [10 Sep 2009]