Research In Motion executivess took the stage during BlackBerry DevCon Europe on Tuesday to clear up a few facts about the company’s success with its BlackBerry App World marketplace. RIM’s new CEO Thorsten Heins said BlackBerry App World is now home to more than 60,000 applications, which is a fraction ...

App monitoring company Crittercism recently published a study showing that iOS apps are the most likely to crash and that happens more frequently than it does with Android applications. The study was conducted during the first two weeks of December, with the results showing that iOS 5.0.1 is the most ...

Chinese company Xiaomi decided to go open source with its highly-acclaimed MIUI ROM and other Android apps. There are no details on the reasons behind the company's decision, but in the end this will benefit Android users.The company's ROM and other applications are being made available for the general public ...

Apps running on Apple’s iOS devices crash more frequently than Android apps according to a new study preformed by mobile app monitoring company Crittercism. The data, which was collected between December 1st and 15th last year, spans 23 different versions of iOS and 33 different Android versions. The latest version ...

There are plenty of reasons for savvy iPhone users to jailbreak their handsets, the most obvious of which is access to applications that provide functionality beyond what is allowed by Apple. The third-party app store is packed with hundreds of terrific unsanctioned apps and now that the iPhone 4S has ...

A recent study done by the guys of allaboutwindowsphone reveals that Windows Phone Marketplace is moving fast and it has just reached over 60k apps. That’s impressive, especially if you take into account the fact that it took 25 days to go from 50k to 60k items. And most of ...

Windows Phone Marketplace, Microsoft’s application store has just passed 60,000 published apps. We reported last month that the portal exceeded 50,000 submitted apps, but we did not expect that the Windows Phone Marketplace would pass the 60,000 milestone so fast.  

Facebook on Wednesday evening announced new applications that can be used to populate users’ Facebook Timelines with new information. The initial launch apps include Foodspotting, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pinterest,Rotten Tomatoes, Pose, Kobo, Gogobot, TripAdvisor and several others. “If you’re a traveler, you can add the Gogobot and TripAdvisor apps to bring a virtual passport to your timeline, and show ...

While technology enthusiasts look forward to a number of high-end smartphone announcements vendors are preparing for Mobile World Congress next month, 2012 will see entry-level smartphones become more popular than ever. Market research firm Deloitte estimates that the number of sub-$100 smartphones in use globally will surpass 500 million this ...

BlueStacks announced at the Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday that the company’s Android App Player is coming to the Windows 8 platform. Last year, BlueStacks released the Apps-on-PC program that made thousands of Android apps accessible on Windows-based PCs, and now the company is looking to bring the same program to mobile ...

 BlueStacks‘ “App Player” will be compatible with Windows 8. Yep, that means you’ll be able to run all of those Android apps on your shiny new Windows tablet, ultrabook or laptop computer even though it runs the soon-to-be-released version of Microsoft’s OS.Needless to say, the company is using CES to ...

Google’s Android Market, the official software portal for devices running under the company’s mobile operating system, has managed to double in about nine months, recent reports suggest.The application storefront is said to have just passed the 400,000 applications mark, after reaching 200,000 applications in April 2011.Distimo broke the ...