Is FarmVille the next Google?Mobile phone apps aren’t all iPee Drunk style games. The app economy is booming, with Zynga, creators of FarmVille, being touted as the next big thing, while Apple’s App Store dominates the market.
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Ping! sends a shake-up message to nervous telcos
An application released last week for Apple’s iPhone, which gives users the ability to circumvent the carriers to send SMSs, will be making our large phone companies a little bit nervous,
Where NOT to eat in NSW? There’s an app for that!
The NSW Food Authority has just updated its engrossing (and fairly gross) “Name and Shame” list — outing restaurants and cafes that have breached cleanliness and food handling laws. We taste a few of the highlights.
Why the old media dinosaurs aren’t extinct yet
The internet sneered and jeered at Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that News Corp will start charging for online news: “We won’t pay”. But the success of Apple’s iTunes and App store proves they will pay, says Leslie Nassar. Maybe the old man isn’t such a dinosaur after all…
Apple’s app economy worth $2.4 billion a year
$200 million worth of applications are sold in Apple’s iPhone store every month — that’s about $2.4 billion a year — according to new research that shows Apple is not only raking in the cash, it’s also completely dominating the competition in the smartphone market.
The Apple-Google love-in is over
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from his seat on Apple’s board. The move comes at the heels of an FCC investigation into Apple’s ambiguous iPhone App Store policies, which saw the company reject an app made by Google. But there are broader ideological issues at stake.
Apple sells 1.5 billion apps in first year
Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded 1.5 billion apps since the launch of the App Store a year ago. No doubt the company have changed the face of mobile communications, but will developers stick with them for another year?
Apps for the Big Apple
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg hopes is throwing open the city’s data to Web developers with a contest to create the best App with the domain name .nyc.
Technology: cheating on your partner made easier
Infidelity made simple with iPhone applications and date sites for the already married.
ToiletGate
With Government 2.0 up and running, I decided to see how the iPhone toilet finder app developers were going. Looks like they’ve run into some issues with the Dept of Health and Ageing, says Joshua Gans.
If only newspapers were an iPhone app
The incredible success of iPhone apps has demonstrated the biggest tragedy of newspapers: their failure to find a viable micropayments system, writes Alan Kohler.
iPhone app advertisement fail
That iPhone ad that makes apps look so easy to use is somewhat ineffective if your Mum likes it, but still reckons she lacks the tech savvy to work the app store.
First New Yorker cover by iPhone app
Jorge Colombo used Brushes, an application for the iPhone that’s a bit like virtual finger painting, to create this week’s cover while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum.
The West Wing of iPhone apps
Marc Ambinder runs down the top 10 Jesus Phone apps for Washington insiders.
iPhone apps for political wonks
Mashable rates the top 5 iPhone apps for political junkies.
What newspapers can learn from iPhones
Newspapers used to be people’s daily connection to the world, the provider of every scrap of essential information. But iPhone apps just do it so much better.
Latest must-have iPhone app: ATM locator
ATM Hunter — built by MasterCard for iPhones — is nothing revolutionary, but damn if it won’t come in handy.
