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Although the App Store has been heavily criticized by many, it has won ABI Research's Competitive Assessment of mobile application storefront (via CNET), pushing Google Play into second place, while Microsoft's Windows Phone app store ranked third. (more…)

Zynga's popular game Words with Friends has received an update to allow more competition for players that have signed in without Facebook. These users can now challenge their Facebook friends to play. Plus, there is now better support for the iPhone 5 as the app now takes advantage of the faster A6 processor. What's New...

Cross platform messaging giant WhatsApp has announced on Twitter it reached a new milestone for total messages processed in one day: 18 billion. Those messages were sent on New Year's Eve and totalled 7 billion messages inbound and 11 billion messages outbound. The discrepancy between inbound and outbound messages is due to the nature of...

Last year's holiday week has raised the bar for both app developers and manufacturers. As Flurry reports, we've seen record device activations on Christmas day, and record app downloads as well, but this has risen yet further during the week between Christmas and the New Year, which recorded the highest device activation and app downloads...

Day 8 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas brings us two singles from California native pop star Ke$ha's latest album, Warrior, which was released at the end of November. Up for grabs are tracks "Only Wanna Dance With You" and "Past Lives". You can click here to download the free songs. Let us know what...

Day 7 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas promotion is here and up for grabs is a free movie rental kids (and some adults) will enjoy--Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry. The movie rental is regularly priced at $9.99 and was released in 2005: Tom and Jerry enter the "Super Race," an extreme...

If you're a fan of watching the ball drop in Times Square on New Year's Eve, you can do so live from your iPhone with the official Times Square Ball app, which has been updated for the 2013 countdown. The update brings some new animated lighting and effects and better rendering of One Times Square....

Apple's 12 Days of Christmas has reached its halfway point. Today's freebie is SEGA's Sonic Jump, which we jumped the gun by announcing it yesterday. With that being said, it's a fun little game for all you Sonic the Hedgehog lovers. Click here to download Sonic Jump while it's free. Here's a recap of what...

While Facebook and Instagram apps continued their run of being among the most downloaded apps of the year, YouTube and Angry Birds were the top free and paid apps respectively at Apple's App Store in 2012, reports Reuters. A lot of new games released in 2012 quickly joined the ranks of the top downloaded and revenue grossing...

Apple's 12 Days of Christmas promotion is ongoing in Canada, the UK and other countries in Europe as well. Day 6 of the promotion in the UK currently has this game as their daily freebie, and it is available for free around the world: The original platform jumper is back as Sonic leaps up an...

Day 5 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas has the pilot episode of the TV series How I Met Your Mother. The episode originally aired back in September of 2005 and comes in as a 263MB download in SD: In 2030, Ted tells his children the story of how he met their mother, beginning back...

Day 4 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas promotion is the novel The Red Pole of Macau by author Ian Hamilton: The "cool and stylish heroine kicks it up a notch" (Terry Fallis, author of Best Laid Plans), in the gripping fourth installment of Ian Hamilton's Ava Lee Series. In The Red Pole of Macau,...