Day: 16 July 2010

Even the comment spam hates the iPhone 4

As you would expect from a popular site we get quite a lot of comment spam. Most of it is utter garbage, there’s a lot along the lines of; “your site is really great, i really love it, and by the way did you know there’ s this great slimming product etc”, Or it’s a few…

Microsoft to give developers cash for apps

Microsoft are going to be boosting the number of apps developed for the Windows Phone 7 platform, by paying developers to develop for the platform and compensating developers who don’t make as much as they expect. But will this be enough? When you decide to build an application on a particular platform there are a…

Fashion shopping comes to the iPad

Shopstyle.co.uk launches fashion shopping application on the iPad Fashion shopping site Shopstyle.co.uk, which brings together Britain’s favourite brands and stores under one digital roof, has launched a new fashion shopping application for the iPad. Called ShopStyle Mobile, the free app is based on their previous iPhone app, and has been enhanced for the iPad. The…

Mobile ticketing is driving the m-commerce market

A new study by Juniper Research shows that the rapidly increasing usage of mobile devices for tickets for all kinds of travel and entertainment plus sports events will be one of the main factors driving the growth of mobile commerce. Mobile ticketing transactions are forecast to exceed $100bn (based on gross transaction value) as soon…

Android App Market downloads pass 1 billion

According to the best estimates of web site Androlib the Android market has passed the 1 billion download mark and it’s growing exponentially, and Google announce 160,000 Android activations a day in their 2nd Quarter results. Less than two years after Google opened its Android Market application users have already passed the 1 billion downloads…