HP’s latest purchase, Palm is offering a million dollars (that’s around £630,000) prize fund and a top prize of $100,000 (£63,000) to a lucky developer who creates the best Palm webOS app. The Palm Hot Apps Program will reward developers of the hottest PDK applications for webOS with a total of $1 million in cash…
Day: 5 August 2010
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Android registrations top 200,000 a day
Back in the heady days of January when Google launched the Nexus One – remember that? it was a kind of phone with a Google logo on it – Google announced that they were activating 60,000 new Android phones each day? Then in May, Google’s VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra announced it was up to…
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Tesco start their push for m-commerce on Ovi
According to stories in New Media Age Tesco has submitted a new application to Nokia for approval to join the Ovi Store and are going ahead with an Ovi m-commerce app ahead of an iPhone app. The new application, called Tesco Grocery App, is the first transactional application they have released for mobile and will…
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Mobile app market to be a two(ish) horse race by 2011
We love analysts reports at Bmob, but sometimes we just don’t agree, and the latest report from analysts ABI Research is a case in point. According to ABI Research they expect mobile application downloads from iOS and Android to account for 78% of all application downloads in 2010, with iOS taking the lion’s share of…
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Mobile in 3D
File under it had to come soon. Sharp are to launch a 3D mobile phone by the end of the year. Sharp have announced that they are to launch a new mobile phone that takes 3D pics and uses a special 3D display so you don’t require those silly 3D glasses to see your 3D…