Apps 
iOS, Android apps surpass 1 billion downloads in final week of 2011 – CNET News
Apple iOS and Android users downloaded a record 1.2 billion apps during the last week of 2011, says mobile analytics firm Flurry. The seven days from Sunday, December 25, through Saturday, December 31, saw a 60 percent jump in the … Continue reading
GameStore Test App Accidentally Released by Apple – Gadget Venue (blog)
It appears that Apple has accidentally released a test app in to the App Store. The test app is called GameStore and is a very simple app that appears to test the ability to use in-app purchases on the iPhone. … Continue reading
Siri For Android App Pulled Down From Android Market – Technorati (blog)
Siri for the Apple iPhone 4S was revolutionary. Apple used this product addition to hype the features of an otherwise unsatisfying iPhone 4S product to many. Siri is the personal Assistant App which allows you to talk to your iPhone … Continue reading
PostSecret Pulls iPhone App Over Threatening, Gruesome Content – PC Magazine
Threatening and inappropriate content on the PostSecret iPhone app has prompted its creators to pull it from Apple’s App Store. “It pains me to announce that the PostSecret App is now closed. In some ways, this is because of its … Continue reading
Dress to Impress – Dream Cortex
Dress to Impress Dream Cortex Genre: Social Networking Release Date: December 13, 2011 ***New Version and More Avatar Items!***Channel your inner fashion guru with Dress to Impress! Express your individuality through mixing and matching chic and posh clothing. Recreate yourself … Continue reading
5 iPhone Apps poised to make a splash in 2012 – Globe and Mail
Apple’s iPhone 4S boosted app downloads to new heights in 2011. An onslaught of new iPhone users, combined with iOS 5 updates, created a surge in app discovery this year, according to a new report from mobile marketing technology company … Continue reading
New App Predicts Next U.S. President – PRWeb
I’m offended.” The app has not been without controversy. Stinger’s original game concept, Mud Slinger, was rejected by Apple for being too mean-spirited. Stinger notes, “I had to adapt the app from a negative concept to a positive one in … Continue reading
Apple TV hack allows for full-screen iOS apps – Afterdawn.com
Hackers appear to have figured out a way to run full-screen iOS apps on a jailbroken Apple TV set-top. The Irish dev Steven Troughton-Smith, known mainly for his work on getting Siri to work on older iOS devices, notes he … Continue reading
Apple App Store Inspires Robot Version in San Francisco – International Business Times
Apple, BlackBerry, Amazon, Nook and Android all have their own application stores for their mobile devices, but one man in San Francisco plans to open an app store for robotics software. A man named Elad Inbar has created a Web … Continue reading
Google pulls Siri-like app off Android market [Computer News Middle East] – TMCnet
(Computer News Middle East Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Google has reportedly yanked an app masquerading as Siri, Apple’s voice command personal assistant software, from the Android marketplace. The move comes amid a deluge of Siri wannabes …
