Funny story: When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 back in the fall, the splash page on its website featured a bunch of icons for apps that’d be available in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
One of those icons was the Angry Birds logo.
Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds, swiftly responded via Twitter:
“We have NOT committed to
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Yesterday, Apple announced how it plans to handle subscriptions inside apps. The basic details are that subscriptions to content-based apps sold within the App Store earn Apple a 30% cut of any revenue generated unless the subscriber is referred directly to the app from the publisher.
(More on TIME.com: The Basics Behind Apple’s New …
Apple has officially opened its new subscription payment service up to publishers today. Here’s how everything shakes out.
How does this affect you?
Unless you’re a publisher that wants to sell “content-based apps” in Apple’s App Store, it doesn’t affect you all that much. You’ll probably start to notice more newspapers and …
Whatever its size, the cross-section of Amazon diehards and Windows Phone 7 owners can now officially be placated with Amazon’s Windows Phone 7 app.
The app takes advantage of Windows Phone 7′s swipe-friendly interface to provide easy access to a specific product’s details, customer reviews and related items without having to load up …
For the lazy people out there who don’t want to get off the couch to change the music, Sonos has developed a new app that will make your life a whole lot easier. The company makes a wireless music system that you can place around your house which allows you to stream songs from your computer media libraries, including tracks on Spotify, …
It’s been expected since the launch of The Daily, but now it seems that Apple’s plan to offer one-click magazine subscriptions may have hit an unexpected barrier: The magazine publishers themselves.
The problem is apparently where customers will be allowed to subscribe. Apple, obviously, is pushing iTunes, whereas publishers prefer …
If you enjoy Google’s online translation services, there’s now an iPhone app that will bring that functionality to the smartphone. The free app will translate 57 languages by text input and 15 languages by voice input, according to the official Google blog. Your translation can also be spoken out loud in 23 different languages, using the …
Mobile apps usually aim to entertain, inform or help us be productive. All in all, they usually don’t incite the Internet into political debate. But people have a lot to say about the pending iOS release of Owlchemy Labs’ instantly infamous game, Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration.
Owlchemy Labs would have to be beyond clueless to …
Love is in the air and with it, kamikaze birds and flying debris from the remains of wooden domiciles temporarily inhabited by thieving pigs.
True to form, Rovio’s popular Angry Birds franchise has gotten another injection of levels. The Angry Birds “Seasons” app—available for 99 cents on iPhone or free on Android—plays host to …
When the going gets rough, the rough get customized. Or, at least, that’s what Yahoo! is hoping; the onetime internet giant is about to announce a publishing platform for apps that will allow users to receive personalized content on mobile devices, according to the New York Times.
Anonymous sources from the project, apparently named …
It only took two days, but News Corp.’s The Daily has made it from the iPad to the internet, for free. Thank Andy Baio, the man behind The Daily: Indexed, a Tumblr linking to each story’s home on the web. He explained the origins behind the site over on his personal blog:
The Daily’s publishing free, web-based versions to every article,
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The British Supreme Court are fans of Twitter, it seems. The court announced yesterday that journalists, legal teams and members of the public will be allowed to tweet – sorry, I mean create “live text based communications” – from the courtroom in most cases that the court hears, because doing so may be in the greater public …
