‘App World’ Archive

Even Google cannot distract Fred from his prized BlackBerry April 9, 2010 No Comments

Fred Wilson, famed New York based venture capitalist wrote this post just a while ago, covering his experience with apps on BlackBerry and how he lives his mobile lifestyle with BlackBerry and presumably the Nexus One living side-by-side. I complete agree with Fred on the shock-and-awe that is a missing App World on new devices. [...]

Getting traffic to your product March 3, 2010 1 Comment

There is a good post over at the Creately Blog today which outlines the strategy they use to drive traffic to their website. Even though its very web centric I believe the same applies to mobile applications, even more so as mobile apps are not yet as mature as web apps resulting in less noise [...]

BBC iPlayer now available on BlackBerry (UK Only) March 2, 2010 No Comments

TechDigest report the release of the BBC iPlayer application on BlackBerry App World in the UK. Exciting news given the massive audience the BBC iPlayer appeals to and a good win for RIM to finally have a strong media offering on its devices, even if it is restricted to the UK only. But our friends [...]

Enterprise App Stores January 27, 2010 2 Comments

Josh Sookman did a follow-up post on his blog about improving app stores and I thought it worth sharing. I’ve commented on the Enterprise app stores portion in his blog but perhaps the more interesting part lies with improvements which can be made today with the consumer facing stores. I completely agree with Josh’s thoughts [...]

Seesmic freezes my BlackBerry on install December 15, 2009 No Comments

So I wakes up this morning, and feeling good I tries out the new Seesmic for BlackBerry app. App World has it available now so after a quick download I was ready to fire her up.. until it throws a dialog asking me to review the permissions changes for Seesmic – if you read Fred [...]

Thinking of money in BlackBerry App World? December 3, 2009 No Comments

Check out this article for some insights. http://www.geardiary.com/2009/11/16/what-makes-a-winning-application-inside-the-blackberry-partners-fund