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With the rise of app-laden smartphones like the iPhone and Google's Android OS, now on T-Mobile's G1, many penny-pinching shoppers have downloaded barcode scanning applications onto their mobile devices. These

According to a new survey conducted by mobile analytics company Flurry, developers now launch more e-book apps than games in Apple's iTunes App Store. Games now represent 13% of the

Rev2.org is reporting that buried deep in the Facebook Developer wiki is mention of a Data Store API hinting at Facebook's possible intention of offering data storage to app developers.

The Google Analyst Day presentation makes for interesting reading. Thanks to Greg Linden for providing the early analysis and text from the now withdrawn powerpoint presentation (only available now as

Google's vision for Google Books obviously goes far beyond the controversial Google Book Search settlement with the Authors Guild and the AAP. The Google Books settlement mostly dealt with the

Sometimes, all you need is a MySpace profile and a dream. And a shopping cart. For casual Internet users who are all over the social web but don't have the

Barnes & Noble, the beleaguered online bookstore, opened its eBook store yesterday. That, by itself would be a major news story, but B&N also announced that it has partnered with

AdMob just released some data about how iPhone users discover new apps in the App Store and how they use them once they have downloaded them. According to AdMob, most

Blockbuster is struggling, and seems to be trying as hard as it can to keep that moniker. Even though the company's finance's are looking up, it continues to make one

Amsterdam based SPRXMobile has submitted its much-anticipated Augmented Reality platform app Layar to Apple for inclusion in the iPhone app store, according to multiple messages from the company on Twitter.