The Tech Sketch

This week, a study has come out from AppStore HQ, claiming that there are about 55,000 app developers between Android and iOS, about 1,500 of which develop for both platforms. AppStore HQ also points out that many high quality applications are from cross platform developers. I wouldn’t quite be surprised, considering they must exert the [...]

A few years back, Apple had released their revolutionary iPhone which sold like hotcakes, when hotcakes sold like iPhones. Anyway, only a couple years ago did Apple really up the bar by opening up their App Store. Now, before you go on a rant on me, Apple’s iPhone wasn’t the first mobile device to have [...]

Google Apps has been around for some time, and now Google is giving a hand to developers who want to develop business apps for the Google Marketplace. With cloud-based services, Google Apps Marketplace will sell third party web apps which integrate with Google’s app suite. Apps are sold through Google and can be sold as [...]

Google has unveiled their Google Apps Marketplace. This will allow Google Apps users to purchase third-party applications to run on top of the Google Apps suite. Like Apple, developers will pay a $100 to develop apps for the Google Apps Marketplace. What’s different from Apple is that you will have to pay a $100 one [...]

Today, Samsung finally announced their new 7000 and 8000 series HD TVs. They are also joining Panasonic and LG, making the 7000 and 8000 series come with a Skype “app”, in the Samsung Apps service. It also looks as if it will come with an HD video webcam, running as high as $200, seen at [...]

Once Apple announced an App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch, they set the bar for app stores in general, and still today here nothing else but about it’s success.Over 150,000 apps available, billions downloaded. Not too surprisingly, other cell phone manufacturers want this success. Is teaming up and having a unified app store [...]

Microsoft did quite a thorough job at inspecting every aspect of Windows Phone 7 Series yesterday, although missed one key point, the Marketplace. Microsoft has not mentioned anything pertaining to the Windows Phone 7 Series Marketplace, although these images have surfaced, showing what’s likely to happen. As you see, it is quite Zune OS esk, [...]

This device looks like an iPad, but isn’t! It has the functionality of reading formats such as PDF, TXT, HTML, and some photo formats. It claims a 20 hour battery life with it’s 6″ E-Inch touchscreen. Enough of the specs, when it comes down to it, if you want an E-Reader with a touchscreen E-Ink [...]

All of this hype talking about what the iPad can do has built up. We had much expectation, and many of us were let down. Click the read more link to see what Apple is missing from their “latest creation”. (A lot.)

With Google releasing their web application for Google Voice, there has been talk about how full featured Google’s web applications actually are. (Heck, look at the Chrome OS!) Put simply, they work! Knowing this, many developers could start creating web applications that work. This could change the era of utilities and applications! To read more, [...]

Well, if you have a BlackBerry, you’ve probably noticed that in the past few hours, BIS has been down! Goodness gracious RIM, this month just isn’t for you is it? Well not so much your phones, but how your phones work, that is. Services are just having random spasms of outages. Anyway, anything consuming data [...]

Android, you sure have come a long(?) way! 20,000 apps in a little over a year, congratulations. Not to bash on Android, although just a small fact, Apple’s App Store reached 50,000 apps in a year. Although what is most interesting about this is that the Android Marketplace is filled with about 62.2% of free [...]

Yup, Nokia’s native social networking apps, Facebook and now Twitter, are now in beta. These apps are included in the Nokia N97, the Nokia N97 Mini, and the Nokia 5800. Although, strangely enough, Nokia has not included these social networking apps for their flagship device, the N900. These apps can upload images and videos, integrates [...]