Mobile Apps

Samsung Relaunches Its Android App Store As Galaxy Apps

Samsung Galaxy Apps offers optimised and exclusive apps for Galaxy devices

10 years ago

Amazon Vows To Fight FTC Over In-App Purchases

The FTC has been promised a legal fight after Amazon threatened to bring in the lawyers over in-app purchases

10 years ago

Amazon Extends Developer Select Programme To UK Ahead Of Fire Phone Launch

Amazon offers benefits and monetisation options to developers who create Android apps optimised for the Fire Phone

10 years ago

Taxi Drivers’ Uber Protest Backfires As Downloads Surge

European capital cities faced gridlocked traffic conditions yesterday after taxi protest at smartphone app

10 years ago

Google Launches Offline Docs Apps For iPhone And Android

Google Docs and Sheets offer offline editing for iPhone, iPad and Android, with Slides set to follow

10 years ago

Tablets Boost UK Internet Use But Most Apps Are Never Used

Ofcom finds that most apps downloaded onto tablets and smartphones are never opened

10 years ago

Build 2014: Microsoft Delivers Universal Windows Apps

Developers now have the ability to build universal Windows apps that run across PCs, tablets and phones

10 years ago

MWC 2014: IBM Targets App Developers With Watson Mobile Challenge

IBM challenges developers to build mobile apps that can deliver the power of Watson in the palm of your hand

10 years ago

BMC Upgrades Enterprise Cloud Apps

BMC makes its enterprise cloud apps more user-friendly, in line with the consumerisation of IT

10 years ago

European App Economy Will Be Worth £52 Billion By 2018, Says EU

There will be plenty of developer jobs, but lack of education and skills could sabotage European success

10 years ago

Intel To Shut Down AppUp Online App Store

Little-known app store will close on 11 March, four years after it was unveiled

10 years ago

Facebook “To Lose 80 Percent of Users By 2017”

Research from Princeton University compares Facebook to an ‘infectious disease” and predicts we will all recover

10 years ago

Microsoft Accused Of Buying Manufacturer Support For Windows Phone

Microsoft has denied claims that it pays OEMs millions of dollars to produce devices supporting its Windows Phone OS

10 years ago

Box Offers 50GB Free Storage For Life As It Relaunches iOS App

Box update iPhone and iPad app, promising storage for early adopters

10 years ago

Apple To Refund £20m Over In-App Purchases Row

Apple is to cough up £20m to refund people whose kids have racked up large in-app purchases

10 years ago

Worldwide Usage Of Mobile Apps Jumps 115 Percent In 2013

Messaging and social apps lead the way with 203 percent growth

10 years ago

Facebook Snaps Up App Optimisation Developer Little Eye Labs

Rumoured $15 million acquisition should help Facebook improve and expand its mobile offerings

10 years ago

CES 2014: FLIR ONE Case Turns iPhone Into Thermal Imaging Tool

FLIR promises to deliver affordable heat detection technology to consumers for the first time

10 years ago

Google Tool To Locate And Fix Smartphone App Errors

Mobile app developers now have a tool that allows them to locate code that isn't working for mobile users

10 years ago

Instagram, Waze Join Windows Phone 8 App Ecosystem

The Windows Phone apps ecosystem gets a boost with the arrival of the Instagram and Waze apps

10 years ago

Google Updates Search App For iPhone And iPad

Google's search app for iPhones and iPads has been updated with key new features and capabilities

10 years ago

Microsoft Quietly Offers Remote Desktop App For Android And iOS

Users can now access their Windows PCs and servers remotely via Android, iOS or Mac devices

11 years ago

Microsoft Tempts Developers With Revamped App Store

Microsoft believes its new discovery features and gift cards will lure developers to its redesigned app store

11 years ago

OFT Proposes In-App Purchase Crackdown

The OFT has published its proposals to tackle the growing problem caused by in-app purchases

11 years ago

Win A Gold Pass To AppsWorld Europe With TechWeekEurope!

We are giving away two Gold passes to the developer event, worth £995 each

11 years ago

One Developer Is Responsible For 47,000 BlackBerry World Apps

BlackBerry World has 127,000 applications, but more than a third come from one Hong-Kong based developer

11 years ago

BlackBerry: Bridging The App Gap

BlackBerry's BB10 may have some missing apps, but there is plenty to get on with, Marty Mallick tells Michelle Maisto

11 years ago

Canonical Launches Developer Competition To Boost Its Mobile OS

Ubuntu App Showdown gives participants a chance to win Nexus 4 smartphone running Ubuntu Touch

11 years ago