Developers are eager to use the iPad as a chance to sell more expensive apps. But you can do just fine selling software at 99 cents a pop. Just ask Igor and Marko Pusenjak. In the last year, the two brothers have sold 3.5 million copies of Doodle Jump, a simple and addictive game, via […]
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Marketers have long been giddy about the prospect of sending ads to consumers’ cell phones, but consumers haven’t always been too keen on the idea, reports Inc.com. That, however, is starting to change. Though cell-phone owners still seem resistant to the idea of advertisers randomly pinging their phones, a recent survey by HipCricket, a mobile
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Mobile Crunch: Doodle Jump for the iPhone is something like a developer’s fairy tale: two brothers set out to make a game using only the talents they’ve got at hand, and end up striking gold. They keep pushing out minor updates, and the game just keeps selling. … At 99 cents a pop, this game
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Most apps take at least six months of full-time work and cost between $20,000 and $150,000 to develop, according to Forrester Research, which covers the tech industry, reports Newsweek. Apple rejects almost 60 percent of submissions at least once, often–according to programmers–with little more than infuriatingly vague or inconsistent explanations. Of the 85,000 that have
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Barbara Heinrich says she isn’t computer-savvy, but last month the owner of Local Motion, a clothing boutique in Minneapolis, went online and built her own mobile-phone application, reports The Wall Street Journal. It was worth a try, she figured, considering how cheap and easy it was to do and how addicted to iPhone apps young
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Those high-powered smartphones that can access the Web from virtually anywhere may be the best thing that’s happened in years to one of the oldest and most beleaguered of traditional media: radio, reports USA Today. Local stations are racing to create software applications – called apps – and appealing talk and music programming to help
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In a remarkable display of recursive app development, app review site Appolicious has unveiled its own iPhone app that offers on-device iPhone app news and reviews, reports AppScout.com. The Appolicious app recommends other apps based on user ratings, plus comments from the Appolicious community. It also includes an app advisor and a database search for
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Your well-loved iPhone deserves a lot better than the flimsy rubber case you bought after being badgered by that guy at the mall kiosk. The Vers Wood iPhone Case will let your iPhone know it’s good enough, it’s smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like it. $39.99 Photo by Vers.
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An entrepreneur may have the best product in the world, but if he or she doesn’t accept credit cards, it can be a problem. That’s something St. Louis glass artist Jim McKelvey learned the hard way, and it’s also why he was inspired to create Square, according to a report on trendspotter Springwise. Cofounded with
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Cincinnati.com: Move over Chad Ochocinco. There’s a new iPhone sheriff in town – a stay-at-home mom of six who has taught herself how to program applications herself. Now, Crysta Pleatman has successfully launched eight applications for Apple’s and AT&T’s popular device, with more on the way. “This was just so new when it launched that
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