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  • Thriving Online Marketplace Bolsters the Consumer Movement to Buy Local with Revamped E-Commerce Platform and Free B2C iPhone App

    Posted on September 20, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Yet Another App Store. This Time, It’s Intel

    Yet Another App Store. This Time, It’s Intel

    Posted on January 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Intel CEO Paul Otellini at CES announced an app store for applications on netbooks. The store is called AppUp Center, and it's a place where users can purchase programs that cater to a netbooks’ unique screen size and mobility. Intel AppUp center launched today for Windows and will support Moblin-based open source operating systems and a number of runtime environments later this year. The first set of apps are now available for download, for free or to purchase, and more will be added as they are validated. App categories include entertainment, business, games, education, health and social media. Additionally, Acer, ASUS, Dell and Samsung have announced plans to collaborate with Intel on their own app stores.

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  • Apps for Blackberry cost way more than iPhone, Android apps

    Apps for Blackberry cost way more than iPhone, Android apps

    Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
    We've covered a couple of Distimo reports in the past because they provide us with some valuable insights on Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market based on the startup's in-depth analysis of publicly available data. Now the company has added RIM’s Blackberry App World store to the fray, which gives us even more data points to compare the rivals' app pricing and whatnot. In the latest report (September 2009), Distimo notes software programs for Blackberry devices are considerably more expensive than comparable apps for competing devices/platforms. In fact, the average price for apps is more than three times higher than the one for similar apps in the App Store and Android Market, which is sort of unbelievable. There's not a single category where the average price of an app is lower than its equivalent on the latter two application storefronts, and the more serious, business-related tools are definitely much more expensive. (chart after the jump)

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