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Pew: Half of US customers use phones to get info in realtime

by Mike Schramm (Aug 15th, 2011)

Have you ever been out and about with your cell phone, needed some information, and looked it up right there on the spot? You're not alone: The Pew Internet Research Project has released a report that says more than half of US cell phone owners have used their devices to get information they ...

Waze makes plans to deal with LA's Carmageddon

by Mike Schramm (Jul 6th, 2011)

Here in Los Angeles, there's a cataclysmic event about to happen. No, it's not the next earthquake (as far as we know) or an alien invasion. It's Carmageddon, which is what the locals have started calling a closure period over July 16 and 17 where the city will shut down the 405 highway from ...

Flipboard daily usage higher than ever, triples in two months

by Mike Schramm (May 11th, 2011)

Despite losing truckloads of money, iPad magazine The Daily is apparently seeing a lot of traffic, and content aggregation app Flipboard is seeing the same trend. CEO Mike McCue says the company is seeing a huge slope upwards in traffic, with an average of 8 to 9 million "flips" (essentially ...

Mobclix finds the monthly value of an app user

by Mike Schramm (Feb 17th, 2011)

Mobile advertiser Mobclix put together this infographic supposedly showing the "monthly value of an app user." It's the monthly advertising revenue for each app category listed, divided by the average number of users in a given month. As you can see above, iPhone apps are clearly generating more ...

Lessons from early days on the Mac App Store with Evernote

by Mike Schramm (Jan 21st, 2011)

Evernote's Phil Libin has posted an article over at our fellow AOL site TechCrunch talking about the app's first week on the Mac App Store and how it all stacked up (he also did a quick hit in the first few days over on the Evernote blog). He says he's learned some pretty astounding things from ...

Cobra iRadar on the CES 2011 show floor

by Mike Schramm (Jan 6th, 2011)

We liked the idea of the iRadar when we first heard about it, and Cobra put the device front and center at its CES 2011 booth (well, right next to the girls in skimpy police uniforms). The iRadar is a radar detector that hooks right up to Cobra's official iPhone app, and it will not only alert ...

OpenFeint sees giant spike in Christmas users and downloads

by Mike Schramm (Dec 31st, 2010)

Here's some more evidence that the App Store had a really amazing holiday weekend last week. OpenFeint has announced that it saw a 184% spike in new users on Christmas Day last week, the largest single day in the service's history for new users. Over the four days around the holiday, OpenFeint ...

2.8 million downloads for Gun Bros, 7.3 million for Zombie Farm

by Mike Schramm (Dec 16th, 2010)

I am anxiously awaiting some stats on this past week's releases in the App Store -- over the past two weeks, we've seen some gigantic games released for iOS, and yet familiar names like Cut the Rope, Angry Birds, and Fruit Ninja are still topping the charts (along with some big EA titles benefiting ...

Backflip Studios reports 20 million active monthly users

by Mike Schramm (Dec 16th, 2010)

When the news hit earlier this month that Zynga had purchased iPhone developers Newtoy (after Ngmoco and Tapulous were also purchased this year), I immediately joked on Twitter that we should make odds on which iPhone developer gets acquired next. In all seriousness, however, Backflip Studios is ...

OpenFeint has doubled community since Game Center's launch

by Mike Schramm (Nov 23rd, 2010)

When Game Center was first announced way back in April, the first question everyone had was about all of the third-party networks that had already built up in the space. OpenFeint was the biggest of these, and founder Jason Citron had no apparent worries about Apple's advance into social gaming -- ...

Evernote hits 5 million users

by Mike Schramm (Nov 11th, 2010)

Cloud memory service Evernote has reached 5 million users and continues to grow, according to an official statement on the company's blog. The service is gaining tens of thousands of new users per day and has recently seen its highest daily revenue from premium users, plus big jumps off of Apple ...

Steam releases Mac stats, share drops to 5%

by Mike Schramm (Aug 25th, 2010)

Steam has released its latest hardware survey results, and there's both good and bad news for us Mac gamers. The bad news first: Mac usage of the gaming service has apparently leveled off since the big debut a few months ago, and while the Mac share was originally around 8%, it appears the novelty ...

More than 25% of iTunes users want the cloud

by Mike Schramm (Jul 14th, 2010)

A new NPD Group survey says that if Apple ever does release its rumored cloud music service for iTunes, there will definitely be an audience. Over 25% of iTunes users polled say that they would be interested a free iTunes cloud service. And about half of those would be interested in actually paying ...

Apperang pays users for app installs

by Mike Schramm (Jun 28th, 2010)

The App Store is a busy place -- there are lots and lots of apps out there, and almost all of them need attention. Some developers are apparently willing to pay for that attention, so enter Apperang, a new service that purports to pay users to install certain apps on their iPhones. MobileCrunch has ...

OpenFeint hits 25 million users, announces 2.5 beta release

by Mike Schramm (May 27th, 2010)

OpenFeint has announced that they've reached 25 million users on their social networking service for apps on the App Store. That's an astounding number, and not only does it represent an amazing achievement by the folks at Aurora Feint, but it hints at just how big Apple's official Game Center ...