Has Apple relaxed its App Store policy for not approving apps that duplicate the functionality of iPhone? The famous Opera Mini browser has just got approved for the App Store.  This browser uses server from Opera to render web pages and thus achieve a superior speed for loading of web pages.  For a long time Apple has been rejecting this browser to the App Store.  And it is to many people’s surprise, it finally makes [...]

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 [...]

Looking for an alternative search engine on your iPhone?  Microsoft has made its search engine Bing available in iPhone App Store.  And it will compete with Goole’s mobile app. The key features of the new application include: Daily image from Bing.com Easy to access voice search Tips and tricks on the home page “Locate Me” functionality Ability to add pushpins and save locations Show multiple locations on a single map If you wish to try [...]

Apple App Store is famous in their inconsistency, arbitrary and these have been annoying to many of the iPhone developers.  And this time, Facebook iPhone app developer, Joe Hewitt, shows his anger and states the “decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies“. He has handed over the development of the app to another developer and handed to something else. Well, this is not the first time for such kind [...]

Despite the problems of App Store’s apps acceptance, Apple App Store had managed to get 100,000 apps into the store. App Store continues to grow and it has hit 2 billions download mark recently.  It is a big challenge for the new comers like, Microsoft’s Marketplace, Android’s Market, and Palm’s App Catalog who are working hard to get apps into their stores. It is hard not to salute Apple, for still being strong and market [...]

Apple continues to annoy people of its inconsistancy way of accepting applications into App Store.  Macworld Editor-in-Chief Jason Snell just had his iPhone book rejected – for using the word “iPhone” in the title. We understand that Apple may not like any application to have the word “iPhone” as the name of applications.  However, in this case, what title could Jason Snell use as it is a guide for the iPhone?  And apparrently, there are [...]

What a number! 2 billion downloads.  It took the App Store to have 1 billion apps to 1.5 billion apps in 3 months.  And now, 1.5 billion to 2 billion in just 2 months plus. According to the press, Apple has now over 85,000 apps in the App Store.  Apple owns the number one web store at the moment.  Palm, Microsoft, Google and others still have a long way to go to beat the numbers. [...]