Apple’s famous by now App Store is going to turn 1 year old this Saturday and Apple seems ready to celebrate this special anniversary. iTunes is displaying a new dedicated page filled with colors representing various available apps. And this special event should be celebrated not because you love Apple but because the whole App Store created a trend in the mobile business. For a year we’ve seen manufacturers and carriers realizing the importance of mobile content. Apple has brought innovation to the mobile business. Every big name out there has an app store already open or at least about to be open. And we should be happy since that downloadable content will make our phone less boring and even more useful.

Apple’s App Store is currently the leader of the pack with over 55,000 apps available and over one billion downloads. What apps have you downloaded recently?

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The Palm Pre adds another dimension towards its use thanks to DeviceAnywhere which has just announced that they have added the popular device under its line of touch-screen technology via the DeviceAnywhere platform. This means that the Palm Pre can now be used in the development of next generation applications, adding the new interface that should come in handy for companies into developing and testing mobile content.

The turn towards mobile device interface has become apparent and surely, the Palm Pre is no pushover. It is a device that has grown in popularity and being a great ally towards business needs and operations, this new technology promises to be one benefit that companies will certainly take advantage.

Developers can also run multiple activities at the same time, as the Pre allows for multitasking between different applications. Additional connections are supported including the use of email, Wi-Fi, and GPS.

The Palm Pre phone is available now on the Sprint network in the United States.

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The age of advertising has diverted its attention towards mobile phones, making these devices the mediums of effective marketing and promotion tactics. This trend is expected to grow particularly now that advertisers are expected to dramatically increase their spending on “third-screen” ad campaigns targeted specifically to users of mobile data services, providing a potentially huge new revenue stream for operators of mobile networks, according to the latest report by Pyramid Research.

Pyramid predicts that mobile advertising will boost mobile data service revenues by 10 percent within the next five years, as mobile service adoption rates grow worldwide. Mobile data services are expected to account for more than 33 percent of operators’ service revenues at the global level by 2013, making any driver of this market a strategic component.

The expected growth in mobile data subscriptions will make mobile advertising a robust growth area despite an expected overall downturn in advertising spending over the next two years, notes Jan Ten Sythoff, manager of Mobile Content at Pyramid Research and co-author of the report. “Fixed-line Internet and mobile platforms will take market share away from traditional formats in the short term and grow in line with economic recovery from 2011 onward,” says Sythoff. “Mobile and Internet platforms combined will account for roughly 12 percent of overall advertising spending in emerging markets and 30 percent in developed countries by 2013.”

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For mobile phone addicts who want to boast and also look for alternative ring tones today, check out this newly opened site Mobizaar. Mobizaar is a new service dedicated to helping users easily create, find, and share their personalized ring tones for free.

People simply have this knack of wanting to change ring tones every so often while there are others who simply have the talent for it. With the Mobizaar website, both parties can find one another, sharing and discovering new enhancements as far as mobile enhancement and design is concerned.

The Mobizaar site combines user-generated content and the collective power of a community of users large selection of free ringtones that will challenge the traditional pre-made pay per ringtone offerings by the major cell phone carriers. Mobizaar takes the cost and complexity out of the process, and makes selecting and creating ringtones free and easy for anyone.

(Source) Melodkia.net

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