Vodafone’s charitable arm - the Vodafone Foundation - has launched a new competition for mobile app developers.
It’s called the Mobile for Good Europe Awards and follows the Vodafone Foundation’s Smart Accessibility Award, which has run for the past two years.
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Customers have downloaded more than 50 billion apps from the Apple App Store since the service launched in July 2008, according to a new announcement from the company.
Current download rates have reached 2 billion mobile apps per month… or more than 800 apps every second.
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BlackBerry is launching Android and Apple iOS apps for its BlackBerry Messenger service this summer.
It means that free BBM instant messaging will no longer be exclusively available on BlackBerry handsets but will also work across other platforms.
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Worldwide shipments of tablet devices grew by 142.4% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2013, according to a new report from the International Data Corporation.
49.2 million devices were shipped during the first three months of the year; more than total tablet sales in the first half of 2012.
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Podcast - 1st May 2013
This week's news report begins with quarterly figures from Samsung and Apple - and a discussion about what the future may hold for iOS.
We also talk about instant messaging versus SMS, the end of Best Buy's European joint venture with Carphone Warehouse, patent wars, white spaces and connected cars.
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