June 23rd, 2009

iPhone In-App Purchases Already Leading To The Dreaded Two Words: Bait And Switch

Since it launched a year ago, Apple’s App Store has had a series of successes (50,000 apps, a billion downloads, transforming the market), but also some failures. While plenty of people talk about the abundance of junk apps in the store, I have never seen that as a problem since no one is forcing anyone to download them — and believe it or not, some people actually do, for whatever reason, love… → Read More

April 18th, 2009

Networks In Motion Wins Mobile Incubation Week, Microsoft's "American Idol" For Mobile Applications

There’s a good chance you didn’t even know it was going on, but last week Microsoft hosted a competition for mobile application developers on its Silicon Valley Campus in Mountain View, and yesterday announced Networks in Motion as the winner.

The startup was one of six finalists – selected out of a pool of 50 applications – invited by Microsoft to come present ideas for applications running on… → Read More