Wireless carriers unite on mobile apps project2010-02-15 10:54 by DanielaTags: Wireless, AT&T, Verizon
Some of the world's largest wireless operators are uniting to create "an open international applications platform," in an effort to tap into demand for mobile applications. On Monday, at the Mobile World Congress 2010 tradeshow and conference here two dozen mobile phone carriers, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, Deutsche Telekom, China Mobile and Vodafone announced they would launch the "Wholesale Applications Community" to create a wholesale platform for launching mobile application stores. The store would provide a single point of entry for application developers. The effort is meant to reduce fragmentation in application stores. There are already more than 30 application storefronts on the market today. The most popular is the Apple App Store, created for iPhone, iPod Touch and now the iPad. This store has more than 140,000 applications. Other handset and mobile operating store companies have launched their own application stores. Nokia has its Ovi store, which the company says gets over 1 million downloads a day. Research In Motion, which makes BlackBerry devices, also has its own application store. And operating system competitors Google Android and Microsoft Windows Mobile also have stores. There are also independent app stores, such as the one run by GetJar, which got a boost last week, when Sprint Nextel said it would offer GetJar app store access on some of its phones. Read more -here-
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