App Store

A US judge prompted this week that Apple Inc would face some hardships in its move to prevent Amazon.com from using Apple's App Store trademark.

The Cupertino giant launched a lawsuit against Amazon on allegations it has improperly used Apple's App Store name to solicit software developers throughout the United States.

However, at a hearing in an Oakland federal court on Wednesday, District Judge Phyllis Hamilton said she would reread some of the supporting papers in the case, according to an individual who was at the hearing.

A new paywall was set up for the iPad users who come to the New York Post website via Safari browser.

Now content of the New York Post is no longer available to iPad users except if they download App Store app. When navigating to the media website via Safari browser on their iPads users come to the landing page that redirects them to the App Store. Before than users faced an interstitial ad promoting the app before continuing to the New York Post website.

Microsoft is developing a web-based version of its Windows Phone 7 app store that would resemble leading services from Apple and Google. The Windows Phone 7 Marketplace website will come this autumn just when Microsoft is about to launch Mango, latest iteration of its smartphone OS.

In the Web Windows Phone 7 Marketplace users will be able to browse the full app catalog, view screenshots of the apps, and check out details and reviews.

Nokia discards its Ovi brand as the company is preparing to make smartphones based on Microsoft’s mobile operating system Windows Phone 7. Starting July and August some new Nokia phones will see the Ovi service rebranded as Nokia services in a transition that the company expects will continue into next year, according to a blog post. For example, Ovi Maps will become Nokia Maps.

According to a new report from German firm Research2guidance there is a significant gap between the growth of Android Market and Apple’s App Store. The research forecasts that in August 2011 Android Market will overtake Apple's App Store.

Bango Inc has added carrier billing in Canada and now the total number of subscribers it reaches through carrier billing in North America exceeds 200 million. Bango additionally provides mobile credit card and PayPal for payments that cannot be charged to the carrier bill.

Once connecting to the Bango platform app store providers and content publishers get access to more than 600 million paying mobile users in 120 countries across the globe. Using Bango platform merchants can provide mobile payment for products sold on BlackBerry, Android, Nokia and other platforms.

Amazon.com is being sued by Apple for infringing a trademark by illegally using App Store name for its mobile software marketplace. Bloomberg reported that Apple filed suit on March 18 seeking to prevent Amazon from using the app store name and to win unspecified damages.

This week Opera Software announced a deal with Appia Inc, which last month rebranded its name from PoacketGear, to provide access for its mobile browser users to a mobile application store.

In the pilot stage the store had over 15 million users in February, achieving more than 700,000 downloads per day, and establishing it among top 10 mobile application stores globally, says Opera.

The revenue-sharing deal between Opera and Appia lasts three years. The deal doubles Appia's 100 million subscriber-base.
 

Microsoft decided to dispute Apple’s exclusive right to use the term App Store for only its own application marketplace saying that the term is too generic to be granted copyright protection.

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Marketplace was found to be more consumer-oriented than Windows Marketplace for Mobile (6.x) in a new research conducted by app store analytics provider Distimo. The analytics agency studied for a month the mobile applications industry and compared the two Redmond’s platforms among other things.

The data for the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace was specifically collected from 1 November until 22 November 2010, in the United States only.

Amazon appeared to be close to launching its own app store for Android.

However, there is no any detailed information over the launch as sources that have been reached out to weren’t sure about what exactly Amazon was launching.

As Digg founder Kevin Rose has announced, Apple TV, a new set-top box from Apple running iOS, will not only be out next month, but will "change everything."

Apple launched a number of enhancements to its App Store which are mainly aimed at Ipad owners. First change is that Apple turned on Genius Recommendations in the App Store app that comes built into your iPad. No OS update is required, but if you launch that app on your iPad, you should see a new Genius button in the bottom toolbar. As with the similar feature for the iPhone and iPod touch versions of the store, you can opt-in to turn on Genius.

The Wireless Application Community announced the merger with the Joint Innovation Lab to create a warehouse through which developers can distribute applications to network operators and reach a large share of members' 3 billion clients with just one version of software. The WAC announced in February this year poses itself as an iTunes alternative being just a clearing warehouse and leaving the retailing to network operators.

The slides that leaked the Internet and were shown at a number of blogs lift the veil from Microsoft’s next project operating system that will replace Windows 7. The set of slides shaped out the company plans on design and features of Windows 8. Microsoft’s 3 main focuses for Windows 8 appear to be Slate, Laptop, and All-in-One PC with Microsoft detailing “Slate” as a major form factor focus. Additionally, customization areas include Applications, Devices, Multimedia, Help and Support, and UI and Theming.