Hitwise stats show that Google’s presence in the mobile market is growing with the searches for Android OS apps increasing by 466% in the last year. According to Hitwise’s monthly stats on search in the UK, searches for ‘android apps’ increased 6.25% in the last month and 466% year-on-year. Elsewhere in the stats, Hitwise report…
Day: 27 September 2010
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Cardmobilli win Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010
Vodafone Group named Cardmobili as the winner of its Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 developer competition. The 100,000 Euro top prize at the Vodafone Mobile Clicks competition which awards the best mobile startup from Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom has this year gone to a Portugese startup, Cardmobili. Fending off competition from 159…
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App builders favour Android
Developers may soon be voting with their feet and abandoning iOS if an IDC/Appcelerator survey of mobile app developers is to be believed. A September 2010 developer survey from IDC, sponsored by app builder Appcelerator finds that despite developers only having nine countries to reap profits from paid apps, and the significant updates to the…
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Windows Phone 7 rumour mill
Microsoft are still not announcing the dates for the launch of Windows Phone 7, so the internet rumour mill has gone into overdrive. At the moment the betting is on a European launch first – Microsoft leaked this info at least a few months ago – with the date speculated as October 21. Where as…
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Android adding new countries to paid apps
Android developers have received an email with the good news that more markets are arriving, the bad news is they’re not saying which. If you selected to publish your paid apps in all locations then this is for you. The email (below) sent from the Android Market Team on 24 September tells developers that Android…