Too many alarms?

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I don’t know about you but I much prefer to wake naturally than to the sound of an alarm, but nowadays, mobile phones come with a variety of alarm sounds to get you up and out. However, are we becoming a little obsessed with alarms? I ask that because it seems to me that not [...]

Are Android apps more expensive than Apple’s?

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That’s a charge being labelled by the market research firm Canalys who has suggested that Google Apps are 2.5 times more expensive than their rival’s iOS software. I believe the way Canalys calculated this is by comparing the costs of the top 100 applications on both operating systems.  However, this statistical analysis has been criticised, [...]

Apple buys new company

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In what has been regarded by many, I believe, in the digital industry as a rather strange move, it appears Apple has bought a new company called Chomp.  What’s interesting about this particular buy is the company is an application search specialist.  It’s also a start-up business. Interestingly, although the new acquisition is a fairly [...]

Is Apple winning the app war?

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Apple and Google have been effectively at each other’s throats over recent months with Apple trying to target Google over what the former perceives as the latter’s theft of patented technology. Unfortunately for Apple, targeting Google directly is a bit difficult simply because the global business has a tight relationship with manufacturers such as HTC [...]

New app launched by US town council

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The town of Gilbert in the State of Arizona has taken the ability to file complaints one step further. Now residents can complain to their heart’s content, I believe, by using a dedicated application. Called myGilbert, it is an iTunes app but there is also a Google app available as well. The aim of the [...]