Mobile Apps

Office Of Fair Trading Launches In-App Purchase Investigation

OFT see whether children and parents are being encouraged to make expensive purchases in free apps and games

11 years ago

Google Play Android App Gets Redesign

New version of Google Play to rollout to smartphones and tablets running Android 2.2 Froyo or above

11 years ago

Google Now Rumoured For Desktop Computer Arrival

Google Now could be ported from Android devices to desktop computers according to latest rumours

11 years ago

First Ever Apps For Google Glass Shown At SXSW

New York Times, Evernote, and Path show off apps for hi-tech glasses

11 years ago

Twitter Updates Android And iOS Apps

Twitter has updated its mobile apps for Android and iOS devices to allow for faster content delivery for users

11 years ago

Russia’s Yandex To Challenge Google’s Play Store

Russia's biggest search engine is following in Google's footsteps, and opening its own Android app store

11 years ago

Yahoo Turnaround To Focus On Email And Apps

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has said a turnaround of the company depends on improved email and app simplification

11 years ago

Facebook Risks Fresh Privacy Row With Tracking App

Facebook is reportedly developing a mobile app that tracks your location, even when the handset is not being used

11 years ago

Apple Blamed After Google Maps Loses App Crown

Google Maps is no longer the most popular mobile app in the US, having been overtaken by Facebook

11 years ago

Microsoft HelpBridge App To Be Disaster Lifeline

Post Hurricane Sandy, Microsoft offers a free communication lifeline app that will contact friends and family

11 years ago

Apple iPad Users Finally Get YouTube App

The long-awaited YouTube app for iPad users has finally arrived, four month after Apple dropped it from iOS6

11 years ago

Google Offers Private App Store For Company Staff

Companies will be able to set up their very own Google Play Store so staff can download approved apps

11 years ago

Microsoft Beefs Up App Security With PhoneFactor Purchase

Microsoft is to enhance the security of business apps on mobile devices with the acquisition of PhoneFactor

12 years ago

AMD And BlueStacks Bring Android Apps To Windows

Chip maker hopes to compensate for the low number of apps on Windows 8

12 years ago

Microsoft Windows Phone Store Rebranded From Marketplace

Microsoft continues its branding shake up after renaming Windows Phone Marketplace to Windows Phone Store

12 years ago

Amazon Appstore Arrives In UK

Amazon's application marketplace for Android finally comes to European shores

12 years ago

Le Web 2012 (Video): Orange Develops Mobile Apps Through Libon

We share some lost content from this summer’s entrepreneur conference

12 years ago

Twitter API Changes Annoy Developers

Report directly to us or shut down, the community is told

12 years ago

Microsoft Suspends Publishing New Apps On Windows Phone Marketplace

Microsoft rushes to fix an issue with digital certificates used to sign apps

12 years ago

BlackBerry App World Reaches 3 Billion Downloads

Now more than 90,000 applications 'up for sale' on mobile app store

12 years ago

Apple Apps Boast Better Retention Than Android

New figures show that apps running on the iPhone and iPad are used much more frequently than on Android devices

12 years ago

Updated Tax Calculator Crashes Hours After Launch

App crashes as 400,000 people wanted to know how the government spends their tax

12 years ago

Tax App To Show How Government Spends Your Money

Government launches an app for seeing how much tax people pay and where the government spends it

12 years ago

Facebook Instagram Acquisition May Not Be So Instant

Facebook's Instagram acquisition may not close before the end of the second quarter as Zuckerburg had hoped

12 years ago

Facebook To Launch App Center

Social network explains how to get your app displayed prominently

12 years ago

Nokia Lumia Gets Exclusive App Bundle

Nokia hopes to make its app ecosystem more tempting to customers with exclusive apps from top developers

12 years ago

Google Play Surpasses 15bn App Downloads

Google's app store delivers a billion a month, but still lags Apple

12 years ago

Trend: 700,000 Bad Android Apps Downloaded From Google Play

Google's mobile OS is coming under attack again, as users download a massive number of dirty apps

12 years ago