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.

On the territory of the Russian Federation, the iPhone 4S has officially begun to be sold. There were queues.

According to new statistics from Quixey, the most discussed and popular projects on mobile platforms are free games.

In this release: the number of downloads from the App Store has passed the 18 billion mark; Android applications are getting smaller.

Ofcom has published a report on the telecommunications market for 2011. According to him, users are using PCs less and less every year to work on the Internet. Their share is taken by mobile devices.

Microsoft continues its offensive on iOS. A new step is the release of one of the largest projects for Windows Phone on the Apple platform.

Despite the high sales of Android smartphones, as well as the rapid growth of downloads, the share of applications for this platform, compared to iOS, is falling from quarter to quarter.

Analysts from Distimo shared information about the number of downloads needed to reach the top on the App Store, and also posted a list of the most active countries in terms of downloading free apps. Russia, despite the well-known love of its inhabitants for freebies, was not included in the list.

The analytical company Nielsen has collected information about the most popular Android apps for three age groups.

According to Apple, the number of downloads from the App Store has exceeded 18 billion.

There are almost six million players in Russia who are ready to spend money on mobile games.

Google has shared information about the most popular game genres on the Android platform.

In a year, HTML5 will become the standard. Analysts promise that in 2013 sales of mobile phones supporting this format will reach the mark of 1 billion.

Apple has published iTunes Rewind, an annual list of the top apps on iTunes for 2011. Among those included in the top ten are Groupon and Keynote. Special awards from the company went to Instagram and Dead Space.