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iPhone app store hits new low with app about nothing

Why Apple? Why is the 1.95 update for the QuadCamera app again denied while Cupertino folks manage to approve the new app called “Nothing?” Yep, you’re looking at a new low for the App Store. This new app called “Nothing” is written about on Krapps (a blog about krappy-apps, as one might guess). The app [...]

MySpace app coming to Microsoft phones

Doesn’t that just make sense? That a dying social network would in its downward trend decide to make a mobile app for Microsoft phones? Information Week writes that MySpace made the announcement Monday. The app will be available in late summer for Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.5 devices. And, in typical Microsoft fashion, some Windows-phone [...]

Exciting news: DirecTV and Ghostbusters apps for iPhone

Two new iPhone apps that make me quite happy: Ghostbusters coming in June (via PocketGamer.uk): The new Ghostbusters game is getting fans of the classic 1984 sci-fi comedy film very excited, as it promises to be the third instalment of the franchise (and is likely to make good on that promise). The new console versions [...]

Skype coming to iPhone Tuesday

CNET confirmed today that Skype will unveil an iPhone app available for download sometime Tuesday. News about Skype coming to the iPhone: Skype for iPhone — it’s official(CNet on CNN), Skype for iPhone is out in Japan: First screenshots and impressions (Mobile Crunch), Skype for iPhone, Blackberry coming soon (Download Squad), Skype for iPhone coming [...]

App stores grow; developers gripe; Microsoft screens apps

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 [...]