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Predictions 2010: Sean P. Aune’s List

It’s 2010 … aren’t we supposed to have a Russian spaceship on its way to Jupiter to bring back the Discovery which was lost in 2001?  No?  Oh well, lets take a look at what might actually happen in the coming year with a bit more realism then, shall we? The iPhone App Store Will ...

Top 10 Cell Phones Of 2009 Announced

The Nielsen Company, the same company behind TV show ratings, has released data on the top 10 cell phones for 2009, and it may not look exactly the way one would expect. No big surprise to see the iPhone at the top of the list, but the fact that BlackBerry handsets are taking up three ...

App Developer Reports Nearly $1 Million A Month In Sales

It appears if you make popular games for the iPhone and iPod Touch that you may luck out and bring in around $1 million a month. Tapulous, the company behind the Tap Tap Revenge series of app games for the Apple devices, says that its games have been installed 20 million times now, and over ...

Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of December 13th

Details of the NexusOne keep leaking out all over the place Have you heard about the NexusOne?  If you answered “no”, you are either Amish or dead.  If you’re the latter, please don’t eat my brains as reading this means you have come back to life as a zombie and yet you are still interested ...

10.1 Million BlackBerry Phones Shipped Last Quarter

Research In Motion (RIM) shipped a record 10.1 million BlackBerry phones last quarter … why aren’t there more apps for them? So you love the iPhone, the Android phones get you all excited, but it appears there are still a ton of people who love the BlackBerry phones.  According to Electronista, RIM has sold a ...

Morgan Stanley Says Apple May Have The Most Disruptive Technology Launch Ever

It seems that it is now official: Steve Jobs has delivered unto us the most important device ever built. Morgan Stanley released a 424-page study (PDF link) about how the mobile space is growing.  The main point of the report is that the mobile Internet is going to be  “at least 2x size of Desktop ...

Android Market hits 20,000 Apps Milestone

It appears that the Google Android operating system is growing into a real contender with the growth of its marketplace for apps having now broken through the 20,000 apps level. While Google does not provide any official accounting of how many applications are in the Android Market, Web site AndroLib keeps track of the number ...

Details of the NexusOne keep leaking out all over the place

Have you heard about the NexusOne?  If you answered "no", you are either Amish or dead.  If you’re the latter, please don’t eat my brains as reading this means you have come back to life as a zombie and yet you are still interested in news on this phone. The phone completely dominated the past ...

Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of December 6th

Google Phone now confirmed to exist; Internet explodes While details are still sketchy at best, it has been confirmed that Google has handed out some sort of phone to its employees. Rumors are flying faster than you can say "Android" that this is the long rumored gPhone (sorry, TechCrunch, but fellow Angler Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins ...

Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of November 29th

Analysts predict 300,000 iPhone apps by the end of 2010 From the "Really, you got paid to make that prediction?" file, comes the one that tells us their will be 300,000 iPhone apps in the App Store by the end of 2010. IDC released its predictions for 2010 (PDF link), and in the mobile arena, ...