Today, the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace was tracking 5,099 apps according to statistics from WP7 applist giving it a good start for a relatively new mobile platform.  It’s still low compared to Apple’s 300k, or Android’s expansive market too.  Out of the 5,099 apps about 28% were free and for the rest of 72% apps ...

eBay has made public this year’s global mobile shopping trends on items sold and sales via its interactive infographic application (see here). The period is covered from January, the 1st 2010 to December, the 21st and during the 12 months over 30 million downloads of eBay’s mobile apps were enlisted. “As mobile shopping peaked this ...

Although FarmVille maintained its place at the top of the most played social games in 2010, Zynga competed itself and launched the most popular game of the moment, CityVille. According to AddData, CityVille currently has 16.8 million daily captive users, compared to FarmVille 16.4 million. Monthly positions reveal that CityVille is also ahead with 61.7 ...

AppsFire, the developers of a marketing platform for mobile apps, has uncovered video previews for the Android Market. By updating their Market API to support video previews, they allow users to search and utilize the app store more easily.  Now apps can be accompanied by uploaded video demonstrations, texts and photos. The video demos aim ...

The competition between Google and Facebook envisaged a new controversy, as Hotwise indicated that during Christmas Day, the social networking site overcame the search engine in UK’s internet users. According to a Hitwise report, while Google.co.uk was accessed by 9.77%, Facebook was preferred by 10.5% people to share their Christmas wishes and thoughts. The difference ...

Intel’s set to release some combo chips at CES next month, offering  some interesting perspectives by other players on the chip sets market: AMD and Nvidia.  Intel’s announcement regarding the two units, which include a microprocessor and graphic processor unit, are expected to revolutionize the market of PCs and small devices, in terms of design, ...

It’s the holiday season, and that means lots of shopping going on.  For retailers, cloud services, consumers and payment gateways, that means heightened risks and heightened security.  Mobile access has quickly risen to necessity amongst consumers, pushing security to the forefront of this movement.  So what are the reasons behind this revolution, and what can ...

The holiday card from Google was revealed on the 23rd of December, and it consists of 17 images of holiday scenes from around the world, created by a team of five artists during 250 hours of work. The famous Doodle displayed by Google on different occasions throughout the year, such as national and international holidays ...

Facebook’s been through a great deal this year, from a swarm of attacks from privacy advocates, to a slew of new platform features, namely Instant Personalization and localized check-ins for mobile users.  There was also the Social Network film, bringing more attention to Zuckerberg’s brainchild, as Zuckerberg himself worked his way up fortune’s ladder, being ...

After vehemently criticizing Facebook – Paul Adams leaves Google for becoming a member of Facebook staff. Things have been escalating since the release of Adams’ controversial analysis of social networking.  As a consequence to his remarks, Groups was hurried to be launched, but the search engine is not capable of keeping its loud employee happy ...