Novell launches an app store called SUSE Gallery,with SUSE Linux software appliances for specific business needs.
The gallery provides “a storefront for end users to access more than 415,000 appliances,” according to Novell.
SUSE Gallery arrives one year after Novell launched the SUSE Appliance Program to help ISVs develop turnkey apps for SUSE Linux.
SUSE Linux suffers from Lack of ISV support (most business-Linux ISVs focus first on Red Hat).
The SUSE Appliance Program has attracted 82,000 users and nearly 3 million downloads since launch.
Go SUSE Gallery
An analysis and overview of the APPs BUSINESS that is driving growth in smartphones, tablets, and digital TVs.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Google DIY App Creation Software Tool for Android Platform
Google now offers a ‘Do-It-Yourself’ (DIY) app creation software tool for the Android platform.
App Inventor for Android encourages programmers, non-programmers, professionals and students to create mobile apps for Android-powered devices.
The tool enables DIY developers to drag code for different functions and rop them into a template. Consumers with no knowledge of Java (Android’s app programming language) could become first-time app creators.
Fortune's Seth Weintraub calculates if only 1% of Android phone buyers create an application, Android’s application store would grow by 1600 apps every day. That’s well over half a million additional apps created every year; more than five times the total number of apps available at present in Android Market.
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App Inventor for Android encourages programmers, non-programmers, professionals and students to create mobile apps for Android-powered devices.
The tool enables DIY developers to drag code for different functions and rop them into a template. Consumers with no knowledge of Java (Android’s app programming language) could become first-time app creators.
Fortune's Seth Weintraub calculates if only 1% of Android phone buyers create an application, Android’s application store would grow by 1600 apps every day. That’s well over half a million additional apps created every year; more than five times the total number of apps available at present in Android Market.
Go App Inventor for Android
Dynamics Marketplace, Part of Microsoft's CRM 2011
Microsoft plans to follow Salesforce.com by releasing CRM 2011 with a marketplace site where partners can sell complementary applications.
CRM 2011 will be available in Beta form in September. The Dynamics Marketplace, which echoes Salesforce.com's AppExchange, will go live then, too.
Microsoft will also expand CRM Online to 40 new markets by end of the year, adding Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Cyprus, Peru, Trinidad, and Tobago to the list.
CRM 2011 will be available in Beta form in September. The Dynamics Marketplace, which echoes Salesforce.com's AppExchange, will go live then, too.
Microsoft will also expand CRM Online to 40 new markets by end of the year, adding Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Cyprus, Peru, Trinidad, and Tobago to the list.
Samsung Thinking Games, Video Apps
World No.2 handset maker Samsung triples the size of its application store in many of its major European markets-- and expects even more growth from Wave, its first smartphone with Bada OS.
Samsung apps were inaugurated in September 2009 and accessible by mobile phone and PC.
Germany has experienced a 100% increase while the number of applications available in the United Kingdom, France and Italy has more than tripled in just only eight months.
Associated Press, Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Handmark, MySpace, Namco Bandai, Twitter, Universal Pictures and Zagat Survey are some of the app providers.
Omar Khan, Samsung's chief strategy officer, told LightReading the core mobile applications that users turn to most often tend to the same old web applications -- ESPN, Weather Channel, for instance. Khan inists no one buys a smartphone from Samsung just to get ESPN.
But the Strategy Officer thinks buyers might go to Samsung if the Android-based Galaxy S gets a reputation, say, for intense gaming graphics taking advantage of the Super AMOLED display.
What's in it for Samsung is, obviously, a proprietary app. "While the breadth of the applications out there is tremendous, the usage that's occurring is limited to a very small set of applications," says Khan.
What kinds of special applications does Samsung have in mind? One example would be Media Hub to put videos onto the Galaxy S, and advanced, super-cool games to take advantage of the AMOLED screen.
Go LightReading
Samsung apps were inaugurated in September 2009 and accessible by mobile phone and PC.
Germany has experienced a 100% increase while the number of applications available in the United Kingdom, France and Italy has more than tripled in just only eight months.
Associated Press, Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Handmark, MySpace, Namco Bandai, Twitter, Universal Pictures and Zagat Survey are some of the app providers.
Omar Khan, Samsung's chief strategy officer, told LightReading the core mobile applications that users turn to most often tend to the same old web applications -- ESPN, Weather Channel, for instance. Khan inists no one buys a smartphone from Samsung just to get ESPN.
But the Strategy Officer thinks buyers might go to Samsung if the Android-based Galaxy S gets a reputation, say, for intense gaming graphics taking advantage of the Super AMOLED display.
What's in it for Samsung is, obviously, a proprietary app. "While the breadth of the applications out there is tremendous, the usage that's occurring is limited to a very small set of applications," says Khan.
What kinds of special applications does Samsung have in mind? One example would be Media Hub to put videos onto the Galaxy S, and advanced, super-cool games to take advantage of the AMOLED screen.
Go LightReading
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Apps Clearly in "Freefall," Says Analyst
Although paid apps have increased substantially in volume with the emergence of app stores, free apps have really boomed, creating a potentially serious problem for network operators hoping to create new revenue by selling apps to mobile users, according to a recent report from Pyramid Research.
Pyramid estimates that the total download volume (free and paid) will increase 7X between 2009 and 2014 from 5.7 billion to 41.1 billion.
Including operator portals, the proportion of free downloads increased from around 30% in 2008 to 54% in 2009, and it is expected to stabilize at around 80% in 2014. "This is a key trend, and it will drive new revenue streams, namely from advertising," say Pyramid Research analysts.
"Attracting developers is perhaps the most difficult challenge for operators given the lead the vendors have established, platform fragmentation and limited adoption of devices with operator stores enabled. In regions where the vendors are already well established, such as the U.S., it will be difficult for operators to establish their own stores. In other regions, vendors have yet to establish themselves, giving operators the opportunity to take the initiative."
Go Mobile App Stores: A New Mobile Web?, Pyramid Research's Research Report
Pyramid estimates that the total download volume (free and paid) will increase 7X between 2009 and 2014 from 5.7 billion to 41.1 billion.
Including operator portals, the proportion of free downloads increased from around 30% in 2008 to 54% in 2009, and it is expected to stabilize at around 80% in 2014. "This is a key trend, and it will drive new revenue streams, namely from advertising," say Pyramid Research analysts.
"Attracting developers is perhaps the most difficult challenge for operators given the lead the vendors have established, platform fragmentation and limited adoption of devices with operator stores enabled. In regions where the vendors are already well established, such as the U.S., it will be difficult for operators to establish their own stores. In other regions, vendors have yet to establish themselves, giving operators the opportunity to take the initiative."
Go Mobile App Stores: A New Mobile Web?, Pyramid Research's Research Report
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