Nokia Ovi Store Tops Apple’s App Store Amongst Wireless Developers in Emerging Markets

While overall Apple’s iPhone App Store is distillery more popular worldwide than any other, Nokia’s Ovi Store has overtaken Apple in crucial high gear-emergence emerging markets in Asia-Pacific Ocean and Latin America, according to Evans Data Corp’s newly released Wireless Development Survey. Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace for Mobile River and apps sold directly through a aircraft carrier were also popular channels.

“The app store modelling is now an expected part of any wireless developer programme,” said Janel Garvin,

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Guardian Newspaper iPhone App looks very good indeed

One of my beau editors (Simon!) alerted me to the presence of this – the Guardian newspaper iPhone App! We *think* it’s a new I, certainly I’ve not heard of it before – but at any rate, it works very nicely indeed!

There’s a push-down store of features on-board the App, including support for offline news-reading, addition also Podcasts. For those of you not familiar spirit with the Guardian, they have quite an active media

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J.D. Power: Apple Ranks Highest among Smartphone Consumers

Apple ranks highest in customer atonement with smartphone manufacturers, while LG ranks highest among traditional mobile phone users, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Wireless Consumer Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study and the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Wireless Traditional Mobile River Phone Satisfaction Study.

The studies quantity client atonement with traditional wireless handsets and smartphones across several key factors. In order of importance, key factors in examining traditional

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