According to the latest NPD Group study, 91% of children aged 2 to 17 years in the United States play computer games – this is 9% more than in 2009. In absolute numbers, this is about 64 million people. At the same time, more and more children are playing games on mobile devices. Does this mean that educational apps for children are a promising direction?

As you know, Google has long had problems with the world’s largest nation (including representation in the network): The Chinese government and the search giant have different views on a number of issues related to access rights to information and freedom of expression.

Yesterday, Microsoft introduced an update of tools and materials for porting applications from iOS, Android and Symbian to Windows Phone 7.

According to a new study conducted by comScore, smartphones and tablets generate almost 7% of Internet traffic in the United States. As these devices become more widespread, the number of people who use different devices throughout the day to access the Internet, search and download content increases.

Interviews with small companies Paladin Studios from the Netherlands and Platinum Apps from Australia: Derk de Geus and David Stallard will share their experience in developing applications for mobile platforms and give advice to novice developers.

Apple today released a press release announcing that the number of iPhone 4S pre-orders has exceeded one million per day.

According to Strategy Analytics, more than 15 million Kindle Fire tablets from Amazon will be sold by the end of 2013. If the forecasts come true, the application market for this inexpensive device will be too large for developers for mobile platforms to ignore it.

We offer interesting material on how to promote iPad apps, with specific tips. Viktor Hegai, the author of the mobile app for children “ABVGDeika”, tells.

According to Evans Data Corp, 13% of BlackBerry developers earn more than $100,000 on apps – in their own words, this is significantly more than what they receive from their iOS and Android apps.

The release of the iPhone 4S instead of the iPhone 5 may give chances to competitors – smartphones based on Windows Phone and Android from Microsoft, HTC, Samsung Electronics and Nokia, which will increase their market shares due to more innovative devices.

Whether you plan to publish your apps only in one country or in several, in any case, it is important to know how different the tops of apps in different countries are. Distimo analyzed the tops of free and paid applications from different countries.

With the advent of the Apple App Store and several replicated “success stories” about how the developer managed to quickly make more than one million dollars on one application, a real gold rush seized many. Unfortunately, as experience shows, it’s not enough to just make a “cool game” for iOS and download it to iTunes. Now there are more than 500 thousand apps in the App Store, and to notice exactly yours, you have to…

During yesterday’s presentation of the iPhone 4S, which deceived the expectations of many users, the price of Apple shares on the stock exchanges fell by more than 3.5%, although it later adjusted to a drop of 0.5%. This is unheard of for Apple, whose shares have risen in price every time after the release of new products. According to analysts’ forecasts, the 5th version of the iPhone will appear no earlier than LTE technology (Long…

Yesterday at 21 o’clock Moscow time, Apple introduced its new iPhone, which, however, to the disappointment of many, turned out to be not an iPhone 5, but an iPhone 4S. It is difficult to call it revolutionary, but, nevertheless, according to Apple, it has about 200 differences from the previous model.

What developer does not dream of getting into the American top, at the same time conquering the tops of all other countries? As the latest research by Distimo has shown, the versatility of the application can play against you.

The Fluffies game for iPhone appeared almost 2 years ago. It was made in Rostov-on-Don by a small development team called Argonyt. Cute fluffy animals, although they did not have time to conquer the whole world yet, achieved good results: they reached the second place in Top Paid in Russia and Germany, entered the Top ten FREE in 8 more countries, and also took first place in the subcategories Family and KIDs in almost 20…

Last week, the first Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon was officially unveiled. Almost immediately, the novelty was placed in first place among the bestsellers on Amazon – despite the fact that it will be available only on November 15, while it is available only by pre-order. What is so special about this tablet? Will it be able to compete with the iPad?

According to a study by InMobi, 41% of mobile phone users in North America (USA, Canada and Mexico) plan to purchase an iPhone 5 this fall, while half of them are going to do so within the next six months.

On September 27, Microsoft launched an updated version of the mobile operating system 7.5 Mango OS. No one doubts that 500 operating system updates will satisfy Mango users. Analysts believe that Microsoft’s novelty is a high–quality product that clearly demonstrates the development of Windows Phone.