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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
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
Facebook To Launch App Center
Social network explains how to get your app displayed prominently
Nokia Lumia Gets Exclusive App Bundle
Nokia hopes to make its app ecosystem more tempting to customers with exclusive apps from top developers
Google Play Surpasses 15bn App Downloads
Google's app store delivers a billion a month, but still lags Apple
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
SwiftKey Android Keyboard Offers Better Typing Experience
The popular Android app Swiftkey now offers a better typing experience thanks to its predictive capabilities
Apple Pulls ‘Stalker App’ From App Store
Girls Around Me allowed users to track women on location-based services
Lenovo Targets Enterprises With Mobile App Store Launch
Lenovo has launched an app store geared towards enterprises and corporate users, and not consumers
Nokia And Microsoft To Invest £15 Million Into Windows Phone Apps
AppCampus in Finland will become a prime destination for Windows Phone developers
Prototype Approved App Marketplace Launched By US Army
The US Army has launched a marketplace prototype for approved apps while the Air Force has bought into the iPad revolution
Apple and Facebook in US App Privacy Probe
US Congressmen ask for info on what data social app makers are taking
Google Pays Angry Android App Developers
Google payments to Android developers were delayed -angry programmers say the problem is not fixed
MIT Offers Android App Inventor Beta
MIT has made available a beta of its App Inventor tool that allows for the easy creation of Android apps
iOS Apps Could Allow Developers Access To Users’ Photos
Photo libraries and associated geo-locational data exposed by 'location access' agreement
MWC 2012: Mozilla Marketplace Is Open To Developers
Mozilla has announced its Mozilla Marketplace is now open for developer apps submissions for sale later this year
MWC 2012: GSMA To Counter Smartphone App Sprawl With Joyn
The GSMA is countering the duplication of smartphone apps by offering standardised, consolidated 'rich communications' instead
Apple Threatens To Pull British Siri Rival From App Store
Apple is said to be planning to pull the voice assistant Evi app from its App Store, because it is 'confusingly similar' to Siri
Apple Acquires App Search Engine Chomp
Apple buys Chomp for a reported £31.5 million - leading to rumours of an app store redesign
Android Apps Cost 2.5 Times More Than iPhone Apps
Canalys survey reveals disparities in the price of paid-for content between the two markets
Testing Mobile Apps & Mobile Websites
Are you testing a mobile app or a website on a mobile device? Developed and taught by Karen N. Johnson, this one-day hands-on class looks at both contexts: testing mobile apps and testing websites on mobile devices.
Government Prescribes Medical Apps For Smartphones
Is there a doctor in the house? Andrew Lansley suggests we all check our smartphones, as part of an NHS drive
TFL Counts On Developers To Help Ease Olympic Travel Chaos
Transport 'hotspot' data released to developers to help travelling public 'Get Ahead of the Games'
Mozilla Reportedly Planning Smartphone And App Store Move
Mozilla is reportedly planning a web-based mobile operating system, as well as a Mozilla app store
Smartphone apps for business development and marketing
With an increasing number of customers on the go and using their phones for more than just calls and texting, businesses are increasingly looking at how they can leverage this accessibility for maximum profit and profile. Jeremy Ros ...
App Developers Apologise For Sharing Users’ Address Books
iPhone apps Hipster and Path move to fix security flaw, with a summit planned to discuss a 'privacy pledge'
Xamarin Delivers MonoTouch 5.2 for iOS App Development
Xamarin’s updated MonoTouch 5.2 accelerates and simplifies iPhone and iPad application development
RIM Continues Developer Push For BlackBerry 10
RIM's developer conference continues the company's chase of third-party developers for BlackBerry 10
The Dangerous World Of Bring Your Own Devastation (BYOD)
A Bring Your Own Device policy has many attractive attributes but the security risks can be enormous and, as yet, unfathomed, says Eric Doyle