Category: Business software
The days of a company’s executive team choosing a few key enterprise software products for their entire workforce to use are basically over. Today, things tend to trickle up as far as enterprise software selection goes: Smart businesses are increasingly taking cues from their employees when it comes to choosing software and apps. Continue
What was born just before YouTube and Twitter, powers whole websites with open source code and has now been downloaded 25 million times? Joomla! The popular Content Management System with an exclamation point in its name passed a major milestone this month and now says its future will be based on helping developers build all kinds of other apps.Continue
Everyone has unique expectations when it comes to booking a vacation – some want to be swept away while others seek complete control. It can be a truly exhilarating experience, as long as the system facilitating it isn’t too frustrating.Continue
When the Amazon Appstore was announced, there was great hope for the new platform. But application developers are growing unhappy with the e-commerce king. The promise was to bring eyeballs and dollars to apps. For some, only half of that has proven to be true and the gripes are starting to mount.Continue
According to a new report from analytics firm Distimo, the average selling price for iPhone games has declined by 28% over the last year. However, the revenue generated by the most successful freemium games has increased by a factor of 10. The increase is due to the popularity of in-app purchases, which are now used in 35% of the 300 most popular games in the iPhone App Store.Continue
New rules governing how iOS apps handle in-app purchases went into effect on June 30, and the date passed without much fanfare and seemingly without much compliance from many apps that continued to offer content for sale. These apps included e-reader apps with links to their associated online bookstores, as well as a variety of others that offered users the ability to subscribe or make purchases. Continue
Apple is launching a new program designed for business customers: App Store Volume Purchasing. With this option, U.S. businesses have a way to purchase mobile applications built by third-party developers in volume, using a corporate account. In addition, the program sets up a separate app store of sorts where developers can sell custom B2B apps just to those customers enrolled in the Volume App program.
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We just came across a new service which app developers are going to love: App.net, a site that lets you make customizable landing pages for your mobile application. Using simple templates, your landing page can feature a description, a mockup of a mobile phone with a rotating carousel of the app's screens, links to download the app on various app stores, social sharing buttons and links to your company's online presence on sites like Facebook and Twitter.Continue
In April, the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) warned its members to stay away from the Amazon Appstore because of "significant concerns" it had about the pricing, terms and policies Amazon had in place. And this week, the Appstore was once again in the news after an independent game developer called the store a "disaster" in a scathing blog post filled with complaints.Continue
The market for mobile application development services, which includes things like app creation, management, distribution and extension services, will grow to $100 billion by 2015, according to a new report from research2guidance. Currently, the number of applications developed by third parties is at 66%, but the analyst firm believes this will increase over the next few years as more companies want to publish for mobile, but don't have in-house resources to do so.Continue
