If you are a frequent App Store shopper, then you should understand just how important the rating system is with regards to your decision whether to purchase an app or not. Coupled with the actual written reviews, the rating system is indeed a highly useful reference for people who are looking for the best apps to install. However, according to a new report, the same rating system can be manipulated.

If you have been paying attention to many of the news regarding the tech industry for the past months, you will see that a good chunk of it is about major tech companies suing each other. And one major player at the center of it all is the Cupertino giant who seems to be involved in most of these legal battles. And now, it seems that Apple is once again entangled in another legal battle,...

Just this week, we have brought to you a news that the iTunes App Store has now turned 3 years old and that it has more than 400,000 active apps with over 15 billion downloads. The App Store is definitely on a roll and it does not show any signs of slowing down as it is now healthier than ever. As the App Store continues to impress, a certain research company called Asymco came up...

If you are an owner of a business, then perhaps you are aware that there are many apps available in the App Store that are designed to help you with your business operation. But the thing is, purchasing business apps one by one for every iDevice owned by you and your employees can be a really tedious task. Wouldn't it be nice if you can purchase by bulk and which you can easily distribute to...

Casual game apps plays a significant role on the success of the App Store as mobile application distribution platform. If not, then how can you explain why games like Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja are consistently topping the top paid charts? And some of the most popular casual games that are available in the App Store are usually the type that involves one-touch gameplay. The objective of these games usually is to score the highest...

Today, exactly three years ago, Apple launched the App Store together with the iPhone 3G and the online service MobileMe. After three years, the iPhone 3G had already retired and the MobileMe service is soon going to be replaced by Apple's new cloud storage service, iCloud. On the other hand, the App Store still remains standing, going impressively strong. Even after three years, Apple's highly successful App Store remains a very strong, if not the...

Just yesterday, we reported a leaked app from Facebook that seems to be a photo sharing app in the same vein as Instagram. But there's another leaked top-secret project from Facebook that seems to be looking for a challenge on a much bigger scale. Based on this "leaked" project, Facebook aims to challenge Apple's behemoth mobile application distribution system, the App Store.

Ah Autocorrect! If you have been using the autocorrect function on your smartphone then you have likely experienced sending an auto-corrected text message that either caused great laughter or unbearable awkward moments. When it comes to autocorrect, users have very polarized opinion but this app looks to convert the haters to switch back the autocorrect function on.

The App Store has reached yet another milestone with regards to number of apps available for download. According to the reliable app directory AppShopper, there is now a massive total of more than 400,000 applications that are available for download in the App Store. As of this writing, there are precisely 401,459 iOS apps (with 507,324 approved apps) housed in the App Store since its initial release back in July 10, 2008.

Apple has announced today that their productivity suite, iWork has officially made its debut on smaller screen devices, the iPhone and the iPod Touch. iWork, which debuted in Mac OS X in 2005, is Apple's take on the office suite which emphasizes ease of use and attractive user-interface.