Neowin News Feed for: Appstore

BlackBerry 10 launches with 70,000 apps including Skype, Whatsapp and Angry Birds

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:11:17 +0000

Blackberry 10 has just launched with 70.000 apps available in the Blackberry World store, including some big names such as Angry Birds, Whatsapp and Skype. However quantity does not ensure quality. Read more...

Amazon Appstore giving away iMediaShare for free today

Christopher White — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:34:56 +0000

We live in an increasingly connected world, and today's free app from Amazon's Android app store improves that connectivity by letting you stream anything from your phone/tablet to your television. Read more...

Apple loses first court battle over the name of Amazon's Appstore

John Callaham — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:31:44 +0100

Apple's court fight with Amazon.com over the name of Amazon's Appstore has gone through its first court fight and in this case Apple lost. As reported by News.com, a request by Apple to place a... Read more...

Amazon Appstore goes live, goes down, comes back up

Matthew Jones — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:09:42 +0000

Amazon's answer to the Android Market is now up and running, despite some early hiccups. According to Android Police, the Amazon Appstore for Android went live earlier tonight for around 30 minutes before being taken down... Read more...

Amazon Appstore to let users buy Android apps without a device

Mike Brown — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:58:45 +0000

Amazon's elusive upcoming Appstore, set to be unleashed in the near future, will include an interesting feature that allows users to purchase Android apps from Amazon.com even if they don't have a device. The move... Read more...

Apple adds search filters, previous purchases to iPad App Store

Brenton Currie — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:35:02 +0000

Apple has tweaked the iPad edition of their App Store overnight, adding the ability to add filters to search results. In a bid to allow users to better refine the results of searches on Apple's App... Read more...

Amazon's Android Appstore opens to developers

Matthew Jones — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:11:52 +0000

In what some may see as the first step of a strike against Google's Android Market, Amazon today threw open the doors of its own Android App Store to developers. Rumours about the store - simply... Read more...

SkyFire makes $1m after one week on App Store

Tom Dwyer — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:01:14 +0000

After just one week on Apple’s App store, SkyFire, the smartphone browser, has been able to turn over $1million. Gaining popularity for its flash support, the company announced they had well over 300,000 downloads,... Read more...

iTunes App Store and accounts hacked

Andrew Lyle — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:11:09 +0100

Reports are flying in through Twitter, App Store reviews and on various forums around the web indicating that some users recent purchase history on iTunes have shown some fraudulent activity on Apps and books being... Read more...

Firefox Home coming to the iPhone

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:34:35 +0100

Mozilla Labs announced today that they have been developing an application, called Firefox Home, which is based off Firefox Sync (formerly Weave Sync). The application will allow you to access your home or work computer and... Read more...

Netflix coming to the iPad

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:22:02 +0100

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Netflix will soon be available on the AppStore for iPad owners, according to Appadvice.Â The application will be available for free on April 3, and able to stream TV shows and movies right onto the... Read more...

Opera Mini for iPhone submitted to Apple's App Store

Tom Warren — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:18:01 +0000

Norwegian software company Opera said on Tuesday that it has submitted Opera Mini to Apple's App Store for the iPhone. Opera announced the availability of Opera Mini for iPhone at the 2010 Mobile World Congress (MWC)... Read more...

60 million iPhone apps downloaded so far

Horrocks — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:40:38 +0100

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal today, Steve Jobs announced that Apple's AppStore is doing very well indeed, totting up some 60 million downloads from the site so far. In monetary terms, the downloads come... Read more...