It might have slipped you by if you’re living in the UK, but The Super Bowl, America’s biggest TV event of the year, took place on Sunday. The event drew in 111 million viewers, which mobile analysts Flurry have had a field day with in terms of data. The most interesting bit? The US won’t use their phones if Madonna’s on the screen. Read more
Let’s say you’ve built an iPhone app (and, hey, you may well have done); you’ll be wanting to get it to the top of the app charts as quickly as possible, right? Suddenly you get an email offering you just that for a one-off payment. You’re tempted. Welcome to the world of app scamming. Read more
I’ve bought myself a Windows Phone. I love the phone and I love the operating system, but there’s one major fault with Microsoft’s silky OS that I just can’t get over: the horrifically over-priced apps. When you look at the Marketplace as a whole, there appears to be a massive gap in the market just waiting to make some plucky developers rich… Read more
Yesterday we scoured some tablet stats to find out that Android’s still in dire need of a tablet success story. Now a Google exec has been chatting to Wired, who’ve wormed out that the company still has some odd views on slate PCs. Read more
Today, Facebook has launched over 60 new apps that are designed to bombard your shiny new Timeline with a constant jotting of your daily activities. It wants you to catalogue literally everything you do in life, ever, and give everything a star rating or a quantifiable digit.
But… Well… Why? It strikes me that this spread of incessant, boring information is exactly the sort of disease the social network has always tried to avoid… Read more
UPDATE: WhatsApp is now back on the App Store. Find out what happened.
The phenomenally successful free messaging service ‘WhatsApp’ has been removed from the App Store by Apple while it vets an update, but is the free service’s iPhone future in doubt?
The BlackBerry PlayBook has recently been on the end of some serious price crashes by RIM due to poor sales, which in turn is probably due to poor developer support and a lack of apps. Now there’s at least one great game for the tab: Super Mario Bros from the NES. Read more
