Nokia’s Pulse app looks and smells familiar to anyone who’s ever used Google Latitude. The difference being that the Finnish handset maker has the benefit of Navteq’s $8 billion geolocation technology that it picked up back in 2008. Now the Haus of Elop is opening a Boston skunkworks that’ll port the app, as well as [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Apps’
For Some Developers, Amazon Appstore Now Brings In More Money
Posted: 21st February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Amazon, Analytics, Android, Apps, Developers, Google, Marketplaces, Money Store, Possibilites
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In the latest monthly report from app analytics firm Distimo, the company delved into the revenue generating possibilites for apps sold through both Google’s Android Market and the Amazon Appstore. Looking at the top 110 apps available in both marketplaces, Distimo found some surprising data: 42 of those top apps made more money on Amazon’s [...]
Majority Of Google TV App Install Base From Pre-Loads
Posted: 13th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apps, Crowd, Data Search, Early Adopters, Google, Media Center, Niche, Paints, Relative Success, Search Firm, Tv Platform
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New data from app search firm Xyologic released this morning paints a picture of the relative success (or lack thereof) of the Google TV platform. By examining the install base for the apps exclusive to the Google TV platform, it’s clear that the Google media center product is still only attracting a niche crowd of [...]
Vonage Mobile app allows free calls and texts worldwide to fellow Android and iOS users
Posted: 8th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Android, Apps, Auntie Em, Backpacking, Brussels, Engadget, Free Calls, Free Texts, Increments, International Calls, Limited Time, Mates, Nbsp, Puerto Rico, Repository, Skype, Source Link, Swiss Alps, Vonage, Wifi
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Looking to save some coin on those international calls to your mates in Brussels? Vonage has just rolled out new Android and iOS apps that do just that. The Vonage Mobile app offers free talk and text for corresponding with fellow app users worldwide by way of WiFi or data connection. Need to update app-less [...]
RIM indulges in some ‘myth busting’ at BlackBerry DevCon Europe
Posted: 7th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Alec, Amsterdam, Apps, Blackberry, Devcon Europe, Developer Relations, Downloads, Engadget, Health, Money, Myth, Myths, Nbsp, Notion, Rim, Saunders, Three Months, Vp
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Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations, just took the stage at RIM’s DevCon gathering in Amsterdam to build up and promptly knock down a few “myths” about RIM’s state of health. First up, he tackled the notion that BlackBerry is a declining platform by saying that App World is seeing six million downloads per day, [...]
webOS Enyo 1.0 now available to all, just requires patch and patience
Posted: 4th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apps, Engadget, Enyo, Essential Ingredient, Extra, Fri, Hasn, Hiccup, Hp, Internals, Nbsp, Patience, Preparedness, Resolutions, Webos
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HP’s Enyo framework is an essential ingredient for allowing new apps to work on webOS devices with different resolutions, but due to some sort of ethnocentric hiccup, v1.0 hasn’t officially reached all international webOS phones and tablets. Fortunately, WebOS Internals has prepared a nice little Preware install package that anyone, anywhere can enjoy. At this [...]
HTC acknowledges long-running WiFi security flaw, says it deliberately kept it quiet
Posted: 3rd February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apps, Breach, Corrective Actions, Credentials, Critical Bug, Customer Notification, Data Security, Five Months, Google, Handsets, Hd, Htc Phones, Ota, Premature Disclosure, Security Flaw, Security Researchers, Security Risks, Sensitive Customer Data, Thunderbolt, Vulnerability
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As far back as September, security researchers discovered a “critical” bug in many HTC Android handsets that exposed users’ WiFi credentials to any hacker who cared to look. The flaw affected recent devices like the Thunderbolt and EVO 4G all the way back to the Desire HD. The researchers promptly notified HTC, but the manufacturer [...]
Google’s ‘Bouncer’ service scans the Android Market for malware, will judge you at the door
Posted: 2nd February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apps, Bouncer, Counterparts, Developer Accounts, Devs, Engadget, Fair Share, Fundamental Security, Google, Hiroshi, Mountain View, Nbsp, New Security, Red Flag, Security Features, Suspicious Behavior, Trojans, User Experience, Vp Engineering, Vp Of Engineering
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Google has had its fair share of malware-related problems in the Android Market, but that’s hopefully about to change, now that the company has announced a new security-enhancing service. Codenamed “Bouncer,” Mountain View’s new program sounds pretty simple, in principle: it just automatically scans the Market for malware, without altering the Android user experience, or [...]