App Store reaches 10,000 apps – not quite yet…

A few iPhone sites are reporting that the iTunes US App Store has passed the 10,000 App mark – but this is not quite the case.

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App Store reaches 10,000 apps – not quite yet…

A few iPhone sites are reporting that the iTunes US App Store has passed the 10,000 App mark – but this is not quite the case.

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Linux for iPhone May Open the Door to Android iPhone

Just imagine that. Google taking the smartphone war directly into Apple territory. Sure, most people would not care about this, but if Google does this
—and most probably not even Google directly, but someone else using Android’s codebase—it would really make things interesting.

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5 Reasons Android Might Deliver Where iPhone Won’t

While the industry puzzles over when Android-supported phones will hit shelves, it is unclear what impact, if any, it will have against growing iPhone adoption. Google-led Android doesn
’t quite get the hype that Apple’s iPhone does, but there are plenty of reasons to get excited for it…

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Google’s Android Market: Cathedral Or Bazaar?

Google has revealed the Android Market, a software distribution channel for deploying third-party Android applications. Unlike conventional Linux package management systems, however, Android Market is a highly centralized system with a single point of failure, and a single point of control. Ars looks at the details revealed so far and wonders if it

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Will Google Android Steal iPhone’s App Store Thunder?

Apple’s recent rejections of some iPhone applications from its App Store raise a question: Will the company’s restrictiveness spark a mass exodus of coders opting to develop for the supposedly open Google Android platform? Yes, no and maybe so.

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Google’s Android platform: not so open after all

Third-party Android application developers are beginning to question Google’s commitment to making Android an open platform following the revelation that a select few developers have been receiving special access to new versions of the Android SDK under non-disclosure agreements.

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10 new features the iPhone needs to beat Android

Everybody was head-over-heels in love with the original iPhone, mainly because of the innovative touch screen, superb web browsing and Apple’s legendary ease of use. Nobody had ever seen anything like it in a phone before, and it’s still streets ahead of the competition in many ways. But can it keep ahead now that Android has arrived

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Installing Google Android SDK 1.0 On Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop

This guide explains how you can install the Google Android SDK 1.0 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. With this stable release of the Android SDK, you can now develop applications for Android smartphones (like T-Mobile’s G1) and offer them on the Android Market.

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Microsoft Readying Apps Store for Windows Mobile?

It looks as though Microsoft is joining Apple and Google in the mobile “apps store” market.

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