Best apps of the week: Limbo, Anchor, Vine, and more
Need a way to kill time over the long holiday weekend? How about kicking back with some of the best apps of the week including Limbo, Vine, and more.
Apple gloats: 900,000 apps, 50 billion downloads for the Apple App Store
Apple's WWDC: App Store users have downloaded 900,000 apps with 50 billion downloads from the service (up from 30 billion in 12 months).
The inevitable happens and BangWithFriends gets the App Store boot
If you want to use Bang with Friends, don't look in Apple's App Store - it's banned.
Apple’s App Store reaches 50 billion downloads milestone
Downloaded an app onto your iDevice recently? If so, you might, just might – though probably won't – get a call from Apple in the coming days telling you you've won a $10,000 App Store gift card for downloading the 50 billionth app from the store.
Crosswa.lk lets you download iOS apps from the Web without launching App Store
A new API will allow company's to embed a button on their sites, letting people download iOS apps without needing to even have their mobile device present.
Want a $10,000 app gift card? Be the one to download Apple’s 50 billionth app
Apple announced that it will award a $10,000 app store gift card to whomever downloads the 50 billionth app since the store opened.
Home Design 3D app lets you design virtual models of your home
Home Design 3D lets users create virtual renderings of their home so they can test out paint colors and furniture layouts.
Facebook-connected ‘Angry Birds Friends’ now available on Android and iOS
The Facebook-connected Angry Birds Friends is now available on the App Store. Play against your friends on Facebook with daily and weekly updates.
Google Now is … now available on iPhone and iPad!
Google has launched a revamped version of its search app on the iPhone and iPad containing Google Now, it's Siri competitor.
iTunes made over $4 billion this quarter, boasts 850,000 apps with 350,000 optimized for iPad
Spitting in the face of naysayers, Apple has announced its second quarter earnings for this year and the numbers are just as impressive as last quarter.
Download race: Google Play Store downloads are about even with the App Store
Google Play has seen a meteoric rise over the last year. They're still down in revenue, but are nearly even with the iOS App Store on downloads.
Amazon Android app store to open in 200 additional countries, could lead up to smartphone launch program
Amazon has announced it will be opening its Android application store in nearly 200 new countries around the world very soon. The list includes several key emerging markets, which could signify the beginning of a smartphone launch program.
Apple’s App Store accounts for 74 percent of app revenue in Q1, while Google Play sees most downloads
Apple's App Store accounted for 74 percent of revenue generated from app-related payments among the four major app stores in Q1 2013. Google Play, on the other hand, saw the most downloads, taking a 51 percent share.
Popular app discovery tool AppGratis pulled from iOS App Store
AppGratis, a popular app discovery tool used by more than 10 millions iDevice owners, has been pulled from the App Store for apparently falling foul of two of the store's rules.
ID, please. Apple adds age ratings to its App Store
Apple recently added age ratings to each of the apps listed in its App Store.
Did you know: A majority of app revenue comes from in-app purchases
A new study shows that the bulk of app revenue doesn't come from the initial download, but from in-app purchases.
5-year-old boy spends over $2500 in 10 minutes on in-app purchases
Serving as a cautionary tale for parents that don't set up parental controls, a young boy in England racked up major charges while purchasing in-app items
In just 5 minutes, small child spends $2,500 on iPad apps
After getting her iTunes password from his mother, a five-year-old boy racked up $2,500 worth of in-app purchases within ten minutes.
Hollywood targets apps that use copyrighted movie content without permission
In the war against pirated content, Hollywood is now setting its eyes on mobile apps that use its material without purchasing a license.
‘Gridlee’ sneaks a game emulator onto iTunes – get it while you can
Gridlee is a new app that nonchalantly entered the App Store last week, and it has a secret emulator that Apple has yet to discover
Thanks to the App Store, Vine is now an R rated social network
Apple punishes Vine for porn slip-ups by slapping a 17+ user rating on the fledgling social network.
5 reasons why the Windows 8 Store is a complete mess
Want to buy an app for your Windows 8 PC? You may change your mind after you see the Windows Store, an epic blunder that Microsoft seems unwilling or unable to fix, even months after its operating system launched to the public.
Apple introduces appstore.com vanity URLs, may have Amazon-battling bonus
Apple has introduced appstore.com vanity URLs, which developers can use to promote their apps in an easy to remember way. It could also assist the firm in its lawsuit against Amazon's use of the phrase appstore.
500px got the App Store axe, but what about all these other R-rated apps?
Apple has removed photography community app 500px from the App Store for allowing access to nude images, despite a hoard of other apps that provide even more NSFW content. But this isn't just another example of Apple's hypocrisy – it's a misstep that could give opportunity to its rivals.
Apple pulls 500px from App Store for nudity
500px's app was suddenly pulled from the App Store today with Apple citing (artistic) nudity as the offender.
Digital Blend: Nvidia’s Project Shield, the joys of Kentucky Route Zero, and Call of Duty DLC
Welcome to Digital Blend, your one-stop shop for coverage and recommendations of all things relating to mobile gaming, digital marketplaces, and indie titles (for the week ending January 13).
Apple’s App Store hits 40 billion app downloads
Apple announced that its App Store has surpassed 40 billion apps downloads since its inception, with almost half of that number deriving from 2012.
Halo 4 is not $5 on iOS, despite two App Store listings to the contrary
A portable version of Halo 4 that you can play on your iPhone seems to good to be true, and if you attempt to download the game via the iOS App Store, you'll quickly learn that this is, in fact, the case.
How much will iOS 6 change App Store rank?
As if optimizing for the App Store couldn't be more of a puzzle, the iOS 6 makeover adds a new level of confusion.
Worthless, dull, and downright dumb: The apps that make up the app market underbelly
Mobile apps have become an increasingly important part of everyday life, but the app store is full of useless ideas that do little beyond put a brand name in your hands.
Issue with corrupt iOS and Mac app updates fixed, says Apple
Apple claims to have sorted out a server bug issue which caused recently updated apps to crash upon launch.
Court case on Tetris IP infringement has wide-reaching implications for App Store clones
A New Jersey court's decision that a Tetris clone was guilty of copyright infringement means that game cloners operating on the App Store could see their business change dramatically.
Gaming the system: How reliable are app store ratings?
While burgeoning mobile app stores rely on user reviews to separate the gems from the duds, the system is ripe for exploitation.
Goodbye SEO, hello ASO: The time for app store optimization is now
As apps continue to takeover our digital activity, it's high time to turn our attention to ASO for the good of outside developers as well as app discovery.
Apple opens nominations for best apps in 2012 Apple Design Awards contest
Come across a really cool app for your Apple mobile device or computer recently? If so, be sure to nominate it in Apple's design contest, the winners of which will be announced in May at the Cupertino company's Worldwide Developers Conference.
Top of the charts: Instagram may have lost a few iOS users, but it’s gained a whole lot more new ones
It's possible Instagram has lost a number of iOS users in the past week, with some upset about its launch on the Android platform, as well as its takeover by Facebook. But if the company behind the photo-sharing app was at all worried, it needn't have been — on Tuesday it appeared at the top of Apple's iOS App Store chart for the first time.
How a flashlight app will raise $450,000 in 7 days
Appbackr is a wholesale market for apps, but in the end, who actually profits?
How to buy Starbucks coffee with your iPhone
We give the new Starbucks payment app a go - and show you how to prep your iPhone before you head to the counter.