Distimo have a new report that compares the various App stores. 
Extrapolating current numbers, Distimo predicts the Google Android Market "to have only 40,000 applications less than the Apple App Store for iPhone by the end of June 2011, and will close the remaining gap before the end of July 2011."

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It has been announced that Nokia is to cut 7000 jobs and Accenture will be taking on 3000 of them. Symbian activities will be outsourced to Accenture. Accenture will also provide software services for Nokia’s future smartphones such as Windows Phone.
This is probably good news for the 3000 moving to Accenture. Accenture is the best […]

This last weekend has been a long weekend here in the UK with both Friday and Monday being public holidays. This has caused a lot of people to go out walking. I heard news on the radio that our mountain rescue services have seen a huge rise in rescue calls due to people relying on […]

I received an email recently from someone asking…
"If you had an application idea and had no coding knowledge or expertise, who would you have design your application?"
The answer is ‘It depends’. 
Before I attempt to answer the question, we have to think what we mean by ‘design’. It’s not just UI design. It also relates to […]

Last night I was as MoMo London demo night sponsored by Intel AppUp. There were demos by Ribot, Terence Eden with QRpedia, TouchType with Swiftkey, Poynt, Game Creators with the AppGameKit, TweetaLondonCab, Rococo, Kineto Wireless, Nuance multi-modal input flexT9, Insiteo, Samsung Bada, NaturalMotion, Parcelgenie, Spark Mindings and Rococo with LocalSocial.
Intel AppUp is an […]

I was at the Motodev App Summit last Friday. It was well attended with what I estimated to be about 250 people. In fact, it was the first conference I have been to that had more people at the end of the day than at the start! Many people arrived late and the sessions (and […]

People sometimes ask me what mobile ads should point to. Things have moved on from last year when most mobile ads were actually wasted ads. Instead, advertisers are using more innovative calls to action. What are they?
A recent Millennial Media article provides a useful breakdown how companies are using mobile ad networks…

Application download 28%
Enroll/Join 40%
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