We are happy to announce that Distimo has been selected as a finalist for the Business Intelligence category in the 2010 Meffys! The Meffys are the yearly Mobile Entertainment Awards, presented by the MEF (Mobile Entertainment Forum). The Meffys are known as the mobile industry’s benchmark for measuring success and rewarding innovation. The finalists were selected by [...]
Today, Samsung has officially launched its first Bada phone: the Wave. The Samsung Wave has been launched in Europe first, and will be available in Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America later. While launching the Wave, Samsung’s app store called Samsung Apps will become available in over eighty countries world wide [...]
On June 17 the Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is being held in Barcelona. This is a one-day event exploring the future of mobile development and innovation. The conference is tailored to mobile developers who want to discover the latest tools and trends in mobile technology (DevTrack) and business (BizTrack). We will give a presentation [...]
Yesterday, Google’s I/O conference was being held in San Francisco. During the developer conference, Google made several new product announcements. Here’s a short overview of the most important news regarding Google’s app store strategy. Android Market gets Music The Google Android Market will be getting a new section in its content catalogue: Music. It is [...]
For developers, Distimo offers a free analytics tool, Distimo Monitor, to monitor their own and competitive applications across all app stores, without any adjustments needed to their application’s code. We have updated this tool to enable our users to track their own and competitive rankings in the Top Overall and Top Games categories in the [...]
On Monday June 7, the 16th edition of Mobile Monday Amsterdam will be held. The theme for this event is “The Mobile Distribution Game“. We are glad that Distimo is invited to speak during this event to talk about the current state of play of the app store market. More info on the theme from [...]
GetJar, one of the largest independent application stores, today announced “The Gettie Awards 2010“. As you would expect from an independent store, the Awards are open for app submissions across six platforms: Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Java, Symbian and Windows Mobile. The event will take place in conjunction with the first evening of VentureBeat’s annual MobileBeat [...]
Today, we saw a new Android Market website. The new site now enables all visitors to get an idea of what kind of apps are available through the Market app on Android devices, which obviously is a good thing for the platform in general and developers specifically. While the new website shows more information than [...]
M1 is one of the three main carriers in Singapore, and it just launched the M1 AppStore. The store supports multiple platforms: iPhone, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Java. iPhone is an interesting one here. Currently there are no iPhone apps available in the store and when this changes, it will redirect users to [...]
TechCrunch reported, via the Wall Street Journal, that Verizon is working with Google on a tablet based on Android. As Verizon’s CEO Lowell McAdam told the WSJ: He said the work on a tablet is part of a deepening relationship between the largest U.S. wireless carrier by subscribers and Google, which has carved out a [...]