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The Android Market has published more than 500,000 mobile applications — though the powers that be have removed around 37 percent of published apps. By contrast, Apple’s App Store for its iOS devices has published 600,000 apps; around 24 percent of those applications were later removed. These stats are current as of the end of September. Published apps are constantly being culled for a number of reasons, including quality, unaddressed bugs and incompatibility with the latest mobile operating system updates. According to data from mobile analysis firm  research2guidance , more than 78 percent of the apps that were removed from the Android Market were free. Research2guidance speculates, “Publishers [may] put more effort into the applications they place with the pay-per-download business model, thus ensuring that it is kept longer in store.” According to data published earlier this year, the Android Market is actually  set to contain more apps than the App Store  by mid-201...

SEATTLE, WA, Oct 21, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Grocery Server, the largest digital grocery marketing platform in the U.S., and Smart Shopping, developer of the Smart Shopping mobile app on Windows Phone, today announced that the two companies have teamed up to create a powerful grocery shopping experience that also marks a first for Windows Phone. By integrating with Grocery Server's API, the latest release of the Smart Shopping app now shows users exactly what's on sale in their neighborhood stores -- from carrots to cupcakes -- helping shoppers make smart purchase decisions and giving brands a new opportunity to reach consumers at their "moment of decision." "Windows Phone puts people at the center of the smartphone experience and Smart Shopping is a great example of how Windows Phone apps can make an age-old task, like grocery shopping, easier," said Todd Brix, Senior Director, Windows Phone Marketplace at Microsoft. "Smart Shopping is an exam...

Many iPhone apps are stuffed with spyware . That's the worrying conclusion from Troy Hunt's recent analysis of network traffic generated by popular iOS apps. Enterprises using iPhones and iPads need to be concerned about the possibilities of data leakage and regulatory non-compliance, as I'll argue in  The Long View ... Australian software architect Troy Hunt (pictured) is the latest blogger to point out that apparently-legitimate iOS apps are spying on us. Of course, these are apps that are downloaded from Apple's supposedly-secure and carefully-curated App Store. They're sending back detailed information about actions in applications, including the unique device ID and often the location. If you're an IT person in an organization that uses iOS devices, or allows people to bring their own devices (BYOD), how do you feel about apps that share this kind of detailed information? Data such as device ID and location, when combined with app-specific logs can be extr...

Pakistan and India to play blind cricket series (AFP) KARACHI — While India and Pakistan await a breakthrough in reviving main cricketing ties, they will field blind teams in a limited over series next month, a Pakistani official said on Friday. "We have arranged a three Twenty20 and three one-day international match series with India late next month and hope that with that blind series both the nations will play more and more," Syed Sultan Shah, president of the Pakistan Blind Cricket Association, told AFP. India stalled cricketing ties with Pakistan after Islamist gunmen killed 166 people in Mumbai in 2008, attacks that New Delhi blamed on Pakistani militants and which Islamabad conceded were planned at least partly on Pakistani soil. India and Pakistan now insist relations are back on track and peace talks have since resumed. But despite an agreement in principle to resume the hugely popular bilateral cricket series, there has been no breakthrough. Pakistan and India are ...

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," is a motto that Apple should have applied to the  iPad 's new Music app. iPad users who updated to iOS 5 may have noticed that the old  iPod  app is now named Music, a name that makes sense. But other changes to the app have ticked off users by making playing and managing music on the  tablet  decidedly less user-friendly. What's even more confusing is that these changes are specific to the iPad. The music app on the iPhone and iPod Touch works the same as always, post iOS 5. I don't understand why Apple would not only tinker with something that worked fine before but only tinker with it on the iPad. And apparently I'm not the only one. The Apple Support Forums have seen  various discussion threads  and posts critical of the new Music App.

App Store Official Charts for the week ending Oct. 17, 2011: Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. Words with Friends (Newtoy Inc.) 2. Angry Birds ( Clickgamer.com ) 3. Where's My Water? (Disney) 4. Fruit Ninja (Halfbrick Studios) 5. Camera+ (tap tap tap) 6. Scribblenauts Remix (Warner Bros.) 7. Angry Birds Seasons (Rovio Mobile Ltd.) 8. Flashlight (i4software) 9. Hanging With Friends (Zynga) 10. My Secret Folder (Bright Artificial Intelligence Ltd) ___ Top Free iPhone Apps: 1. Find My Friends (Apple) 2. NYTimes (The New York Times Company) 3. Stupidness 3 (Ming Liang Chien) 4. iTunes Movie Trailers (Apple) 5. Facebook (Facebook, Inc.) 6. Flashlight. (Latter-Day Apps) 7. Jump Out! (Avallon Alliance Ltd.) 8. iNstein College (AlphaWeb Plus LLP) 9. Contract Killer: Zombies (Glu Games Inc.) 10. Twitter (Twitter, Inc.) ___ Top Paid iPad Apps: 1. Scribblenauts Remix (Warner Bros. ) 2. Where's My Water? (Disney) 3. Siegecraft (Crescent Moon Games) 4. Living Earth HD (World Clock and Weather — Mos...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Afghan and  NATO  forces have stepped up their fight against a militant network considered the most dangerous threat facing coalition forces in Afghanistan, the nation's defense officials said Tuesday. The Haqqani network is the main target of a days-long operation along the Afghan side of the Afghan-Pakistani border, where the militants operate. The Haqqani group, which is linked to both the Taliban and al-Qaida, has been blamed for high profile attacks in the Afghan capital, including last month's 19-hour siege against the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. "They create problems for both countries," Afghan army chief of staff, Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, told reporters at a briefing. The U.S. has been trying to coax Pakistan to go after the Haqqani network. The issue is a main cause of tension between the U.S.-led coalition and Pakistan. Afghan and NATO officials are tiring of Pakistan's inability or reluctance to confront the insurgent group. Paki...

By  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Iran’s supreme leader warned the United States on Sunday that any measures taken against Tehran over an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington would elicit a “resolute” response. Two men, including a member of the Iranian special foreign actions unit known as the Quds Force, have been charged in New York federal court with conspiring to kill the Saudi diplomat, Adel Al-Jubeir. U.S. officials have said no one was ever in any immediate danger from the plot. “If U.S. officials have some delusions, (they must) know that any unsuitable act, whether political or security, will meet a resolute response from the Iranian nation,” state TV quoted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying. Iran also demanded that a diplomat be allowed to visit one of the men in prison. Khamenei’s comments may reflect Iranian concerns that Washington would use the Al-Jubeir case to ratchet up sanctions and recruit international allies to try to fur...

PETER SVENSSON   NEW YORK  – One of the big, enduring questions of the technology world: “When will iPad users get their very own Facebook app?” That question was answered last Monday, as Facebook said it was set to release an updated version of its iPhone application, one that’s also designed to fill out the larger screen of the iPad. The lack of an iPad app for the most popular social network in the world has confounded users, ever since Apple launched its tablet computer a year and a half ago. Third-party developers have made money selling their own apps that show Facebook pages. “We’re releasing it now because it’s done,” Bret Taylor, the chief technology officer at Facebook, said Monday in an interview. Last month, Facebook engineer Jeff Verkoeyen announced on his personal blog that he was leaving to take a job with Google and that the iPad app he had worked on was nearly complete in May. It was then “repeatedly delayed through the summer,” he said, without revealing ex...