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A round-up of the latest mobile app store news:

Study: Mobile App Stores Users to Quadruple by 2014

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Android, BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM), Windows Mobile, Nokia (NYSE: NOK), even Acer and Samsung, are all pointed towards on-device digital distribution; according to In-Stat, upwards of 100 million handsets with application stores on them will be in the market by 2014.

iPhone App Developers Gripe About Payment Delays and Dismal Customer Service

On this iPhone developer forum, there are numerous threads from developers who are complaining about delays in payments for January and not being paid the amount of money the developers are in fact due from sales.

N-Gage service hits one million registered users

Nokia has revealed that one million N-Gage user accounts have been registered since the service launched a year ago. Perhaps the most remarkable fact, though, is that only in October that figure stood at 400,000.

iPhone app refunds to include additional developer charge?

Kotaku is reporting a rumor that Apple is currently getting iPhone developers to sign-up to an updated contract that could send them into debt for unpopular apps.

Smartphones pulling down 1/3 of all mobile ads

Smartphones, especially touchscreen smartphones are starting to gain traction in the mobile advertising world. A new study has found that fully one-third (33%) of all mobile advertisement requests were made by smartphones in February 2009, up from 26% the previous month.

How Microsoft Keeps Out The Lame Apps

More details are sneaking out about Microsoft’s upcoming marketplace for Windows Mobile phones, and the fine print is concerning some developers, who are asking whether Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is building a marketplace to benefit developers, or a business to line its own pockets.

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