The release of the iPhone 4S significantly affected the number of downloads of free software from the App Store.

There is a version that the next iPad will be shown at the annual iWorld festival on January 26, 2012.

On one day alone – December 25, 2011 – 6.8 million smartphones were activated, while half of the activations were on Android. Microsoft Corporation, in turn, boasted of the number of applications in the Windows Phone Market.

With the introduction of Android 4.0 and Windows 8 on the market, tablets will become the dominant devices in the market of devices with touch screens.

Inside Mobile Apps bloggers tell how big companies manage to stay in the top in the last weeks of the year.

Google is planning to release its tablet. This release may negatively affect sales of other Android-based tablets.

In just a minute, people have time to dig up 1,100 acres of land in FarmVille, generate 38 tons of environmental garbage, and watch porn. And, yes, they also manage to do something with the iPhone 4s.

The number of smartphones used by users may increase from the current 262 million to 800 million. At least, such figures were shared with the public by Flurry. The main driver of growth is the Chinese market; the Russian market may also increase significantly. 

The director of Tetris said that the success of Angry Birds will not last long, unlike the success of the game about the glass and falling cubes.

Users of the Google platform download more work applications and play less on their devices than users of the mobile version of iOS.

Analysts claim that almost a third of viruses for the mobile platform from Google are received by users through the official app store.

According to preliminary data from CrowdStar, the average income from each user in the mobile application market (ARPU) at Amazon is five times more than the same on the Android Market.

The creator of the iconic business smartphones is experiencing financial difficulties. All the major players in the mobile device market have already become interested in buying it.

The Android platform has reached astronomical figures in the number of daily activations. The vice president of the company explains what the company means by the word “activation”.

Distimo summed up the results of the year in the mobile application market and shared the results of the study with the press.

In 2011, free apps became the highest-grossing mobile projects in the UK. This is the conclusion that GAMESbrief experts came to.  

The first unofficial data about the new Apple device has appeared. It will be a tablet with a reduced screen diagonal compared to the iPad.

According to the latest data, Android-based mobile devices are used more often to access Facebook than iOS-based devices. All thanks to the high sales of smartphones on Google’s OC.

Amazon sells 1 million of its devices a week. However, what share of sales falls on the Kindle Fire is not specified.