Of the top 50 free and top 50 paid apps in Apple’s App Store and Google Play in the US, just 34 per cent feature in either the Windows Phone store or BlackBerry World – despite “substantial efforts” from Microsoft …
AT&T is to support any mobile video chat app on its mobile network by the end of 2013, reports The Verge. The US number-two operator said in a statement that in the second half of 2013, it plans to enable …
Android apps that have been ported for use with BlackBerry 10 are proving unpopular with users, according to BlackBerry’s head of developer relations, Alec Saunders. Speaking to CNET at the BlackBerry Live event in Florida, Saunders said: “From a commercial …
Global profits from the sale of Android smartphones hit $5.3 billion during the first quarter of 2013, as Google revealed that 900 million devices running the OS have been activated since it launched four and a half years ago. According …
Google said it had passed 48 billion downloads from Google Play, at roughly the same time that Apple said it had reached the 50 billion milestone. With Google Play having launched well after the App Store, the Android app tally …
BlackBerry unveiled its latest BlackBerry 10-powered device, the Q5, as well as announcing it will make BlackBerry Messenger available for iOS and Android. The Q5 is the third device launched for BlackBerry 10 — after the Z10 and Q10, unveiled in …
Of the world’s geographical regions, only Asia-Pacific was able to register growth in mobile phone sales during Q1 2013, according to research firm Gartner. Registering sales of more than 226 million units during the three months ended March, a year-on-year …
Payments company PayPal has announced its software development kit (SDK) for Android, intended to make it easier for developers to accept in-app payments on the platform. The SDK will be available to US developers on 15 May and is suitable …
Global shipments of ‘smart devices’, comprising notebooks, tablets and smartphones, hit 309 million units in Q1 2013, with tablets the fastest-growing segment, according to research firm Canalys. Total shipments of smart devices increased 37.4 per cent year-on-year. Though tablets are the smallest of …
Facebook is set to revamp its Facebook Home launcher for Android, stating that “we’ve spent a lot of time digging through the one star ratings”. Launched by the social networking giant last month, Facebook Home is a downloadable app which …
