It’s always fun to look back in time to the world in which it was even only a few short years ago. (Besides, a few short years ago is like a decade or two in tech years). So what was the mobile app scene like? Handango and PocketGear wear “the” mobile app stores. The big draw was that their respective app libraries were massive, in part because of the countless mobile platforms all supported under one roof. That multi-platform, app goodness has just...

Adobe is rumored to be unveiling a new application to its signature suite of services this April. At least this is what a digital printing conference in Texas is telling us. Amongst all that is listed at their site, you can find under the Design heading a presentation by Adobe. It’s being titled as an “Adobe Technology Review.” Whatever this new application is supposed to be, they are saying it will surprise even the biggest Adobe fanboy. We can only...

Since way back in 2007, Apple has been pretty strict about sexual content in the App Store. At first there was just cause — there wasn’t really any easy or robust measures set in place to protect the kiddies from the horrors of nipples and wieners. Then came OS 3.0 and better parental controls. It even got to the point that Apple was starting to switch sides by approving iBoob and iBabe app to the joy of many iPhoners alike. But just as fast as it all...

**Update: Personal account of the sholes.info drama here. Frequent the custom DROID ROM scene? If so, there’s a high probability you’ve heard of the Sholes team and sholes.info at least once. First, a quick back story… They are an awesome custom ROM droid development team that develops one of the best custom DROID ROMs. A few weeks back, the Sholes team, together with developer Scott Anderson released SMUpdater, an awesome auto-download/install app...

Worried that Windows Phone 7 won’t let you play with multiple apps at once a la Apple? Well, if the leaked Windows Phone 7 development policies are anything to go by, there may be some hope. According to dev policies, “preemptive” backgrounding will be enabled. However, apps must pass through an app submission and provisioning process for further scrutiny — fruit anyone? Much like the Zune environment which the Windows Phone 7 OS pulls from,...

Besides world hunger, rampant diseases, and a good chunk of the world ready to slit the others’ throat, the most obvious thing that we need at this point is another app store. While Apple’s App Store certainly has it’s fair share of problems — as does the Android Market, RIM’s App World, Windows Marketplace, Nokia’s Ovi Store, and Palm’s App Catalog to name the most prominent and relevant — it seems someone else thinks they...