Articles tagged with: App Store and Symbian

Symbian Foundation Launches App Store

­The Symbian Foundation has announced the launch of Symbian Horizon, an app store for Symbian developers. Users can now sign up for the program to have their applications listed in the Symbian Horizon Directory, processed through Symbian Signed, and published to a growing list of application store partners.  more

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Symbian to Launch its Own App Store Platform

The Symbian Foundation today previewed Symbian Horizon, an application-publishing program on schedule for general availability in October 2009. With Symbian Horizon, developers will receive assistance in building applications for Symbian devices and in placing those applications in the many global stores which reach Symbian customers, and will receive promotional assistance for bringing those applications to end users.  more

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Smartphones: the silver lining of the declining handset market

Opinion by Ovum's Adam Leach, Devices principal analyst

Smartphone shipments will reach 406.7 million by 2014

During 2008, in a first for the mobile industry, consumer demand for third-party applications started driving both handset sales and revenues for developers and OEMs. Apple’s success with the App Store has prompted other players to focus on devices that can enable third-party developers to easily bring applications and services to mobile phones.  more

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Apple iPhone's Halo Effect Yet to Reach Software Developers

SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Sliding software prices have damped the halo effect many music and software companies expected from selling their products through Apple's iPhone software store.  more

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