Mobile VAS Conference, the largest international forum dedicated to the development of the market of additional mobile services, will be held in St. Petersburg this week.

The British company Blaze Interactive has announced the upcoming release of a new device called GameGadget. The Linux-based device will support games for different platforms and will allow developers to make money on “retro games”.

According to research2guidity, in the third quarter of 2011, more than half a million applications were added to the Android Market, however, as a result, only 319,161 remained available, while more than 600,000 applications were added to the App Store, of which 459,589 remained. The difference in quantity is decreasing more and more.

The US mobile market is the leading one in terms of the total volume of downloaded Android applications, however, Europe was in first place in terms of the number of downloaded applications per user.

Apple has started accepting Chinese yuan payments in the App Store. This is due to the expansion of the company’s activities into a key emerging market.

The Games category is still the most popular category, and, interestingly, it is on games that people are willing to spend money. At the same time, iPhone users, on average, play 2 times more than owners of smartphones based on Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.

According to the results of a recent study, a BlackBerry-based smartphone is no longer a necessary means of communication in a business environment.

This Saturday, November 19th, the Mobile Professional Days 2011 conference will be held in Kharkiv. Mobile application developers, designers, testers and anyone who is interested in the topic of the conference are invited.

The results of the latest study showed that the majority of smartphone and tablet owners who download apps still prefer free content.

In this release: iTunes Connect will go on vacation; almost half a billion mobile phones were sold in the 3rd quarter; developers will have to think about how to retain users.

Flurry compared the number of sessions in January and October 2011 in different countries based on a study of more than 120 thousand mobile applications: the US is losing ground, gradually giving way to other countries.

On December 7, 2011, a conference for mobile application developers Mobile Developer Day 2011 will be held in Moscow. The conference will be of interest to company owners, project managers, startups, mobile platform vendors, marketers and developers.

Apple has informed developers that iTunes Connect will be closed from December 22 to December 29. At this time, you will not be able to launch new applications, make updates or change the price.

Gartner has published a report according to which in the third quarter sales of mobile devices reached 440.5 million units, which is 5.6% more than a year ago.

As many have already seen in practice, a good application in itself does not give much: it needs to be promoted, to invest a lot of money in marketing and advertising. Fiksu gave 11 tips on how to optimize costs and attract maximum users.

Application promotion is always a whole set of actions where every little thing is important. The main task is, of course, to “light up” wherever possible. We offer a list of sites where you can try to get an overview.

Apple and Google have launched a new computer era comparable to the PC revolution of the 80s and the Internet boom of the late 90s. Since 2007, more than 440 million devices on iOS and Android platforms have been activated; about a million new devices are activated daily. In parallel, a huge number of programs for these devices appear.

PayPal may soon become one of the acceptable means of payment for goods in the Android Market app store. Of course, rumors about this step by Google have been going around for a long time, but recently they have received more real grounds.

The existence of a single market for an application on the iOS platform, on the one hand, is very convenient for both developers and users: the former get access to a large paying audience, and the latter – high-quality content. But there are problems. The developers shared their thoughts on this.