WinMo developers will pay US$99 to upgrade apps

Microsoft plans to charge mobile-application developers US$99 to release upgraded versions of applications they submit to the Windows Mobile Marketplace, and will also charge them for minor updates unless they are released within seven days of the application's debut.

When Microsoft announced plans for its Windows Mobile Marketplace application store earlier this month, it said it planned to charge developers US$99 a year to participate in the program as well as a US$99 fee per application submission--although as part of a promotional offer developers who registered this year could submit up to five applications for free.

After IDG News Service spotted a message posted from Microsoft's official Windows Mobile Twitter account that notes "upgrades/updates are new app submissions," developers started to wonder if upgrades to their applications would count against the five-application limit.
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Report: BlackBerry app store to launch next week

Research In Motion's new mobile application store is set to launch on April 1 at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas, BusinessWeek reported this week.

Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of RIM, which makes the popular BlackBerry devices, is slated to give a keynote address on the opening day of the trade show and conference. And the company is expected to announce the new application store there.

The BlackBerry application store, which will be called BlackBerry App World, was announced in October 2008. And it is one of several application stores that have been announced to take on Apple's App Store for the iPhone. Nokia, Google, Microsoft, and Palm have all announced plans to offer their own application stores.
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Lenovo's Android phone skinned to look like an iPhone

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It appears that Lenovo designers must really like the iPhone interface, though we're not sure if the Apple legal team will feel the same. A Chinese blogsite has posted some early screenshots of the Android-based OPhone and, let's be honest about it--it's a dead ringer for the iPhone.

Menu icons, as pictured, are square with rounded borders. There are also tiny circles at the bottom edge of the display panel and we assume these will bring you to the different menu pages like the iPhone. The key differences are the Search bar and what seems like an RSS ticker feed above the icons.

A little more interesting is the floating "O" on the standby screen. According to the description, docking the "O" onto the ring in the static bar below will activate the software. This could mean some sort of locking interface which Apple disengages with a horizontal swipe.

Earlier reports in December last year suggested that the OPhone, designed to work on the Open Mobile System, is headed for the China Mobile network this year. So chances are we won't see this outside of the Mainland. Obviously, other details are scant at the moment, but the Chinese blogsite promised to post more pictures on the features of the Ophone soon.

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EA Mobile bringing Madden, Wolfenstein to iPhone

EA Mobile is making a big bet on the iPhone and iPod touch, announcing plans this week to port more than a dozen of its most popular games to Apple's gadgets.

EA Mobile's Travis Boatman--a fixture onstage at Apple's last two iPhone software events--announced this news during a keynote address at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. At some point this year, EA Mobile will release versions of franchises like Madden NFL, Wolfenstein, Command and Conquer, and NBA Live, according to PocketGamer.

Gaming continues to be one of the most active areas on the App Store, and game developers at GDC flocked to sessions regarding the iPhone--conference organizers were forced to turn away late arriving attendees to some sessions. Apple has helped encourage the idea of the iPhone and especially the iPod touch as next-generation gaming devices with its latest advertisements for those devices.

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Google Voice Search comes to BlackBerrys

Delivering on its promise, Google released a new mobile application on Wednesday that brings its Voice Search feature to BlackBerrys, much like it did for the iPhone and Android-based T-Mobile G1.

The Google Mobile App is available now as a free download and allows you to conduct searches with the sound of your voice. To do so, you simply hold down the Talk button on your BlackBerry and then speak your search term into the phone. Brits, you'll also be happy to hear that the app now supports British English accents.

Perhaps even more powerful, the app also includes support for Google's My Locations feature, which brings up search results based on your location as determined by your BlackBerry's GPS, Wi-Fi, and cellular triangulation.
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