Pocketgear has just acquired its competitor – Handango, and now it becomes the largest cross-platform mobile apps store on Internet, featuring 140,000 apps in the store.  That’s a figure comparable to Apple’s App Store. We know that the number does mean everything.  Most importantly, whether the customers will find it useful to get the apps from another store rather than getting them from the sources like Android Market and Windows Market place.  With big store [...]

Palm is reported to have a little bit of problem getting the overwhelming submissions of applications into their App Catalog.  However, that is a good and happy problem they have. The success of a device (especially a smartphone or a PDA phone) largely depends on the number of applications available for it.  Palm has been working very hard to get more applications into their App Catalog since Palm Pre was launched.  With the opening of [...]