Tag: GLOBAL

One big knock against the Android Market has been the fact that developers could only receive payments from users in a handful of countries. Apart from adversely affecting global sales, that limitation also left a lot of developers who wanted to create localized Android apps frustrated. How can you you develop and sell an app targeted at Irish users if they can't pay for it in the Market? ...

A few days ago, the Microsoft vice president of Corporate Communications shared some figures with the rest of the world. Total sales, downloads, visitors, subscriptions -- numbers. It's a blog post of numbers. TechCrunch calls it passive-aggressive. I call it smug, reassured braggatry -- the kind that only 800lb gorillas can pull off. If you want a full analysis of the numbers, read ...

Since the launch of Foursquare, playing the location-based checkin game depended on being in one of the officially-supported cities. Some large cities in the U.S. and elsewhere are still waiting to be added to the list. Well, the wait is (nearly) over, even if you live in some remote nether-region. Foursquare will soon span the globe, so you'll be able to check in anywhere you go. Heck, even ...

Yahoo! continues its slow creep up on Google in the web services department with a significant upgrade to Yahoo! Maps. The major change in the new release is global satellite imagery with, of course, an emphasis on U.S. cities. They've also added medium-resolution maps for cities around the world, and developers will be pleased to know they've released Version 3 of the Yahoo! Maps API to take ...