Christmas day in 2011 has been marked down as the biggest day for global device activations ever and according to Flurry, an app store analytics firm this caused record levels of app store activity between December 25th and 31st. Over 1.2 billion applications were downloaded in this single week period. …

Research, published this week shows that 48 billion application downloads could take place by 2015. The research, completed by Researcher In-Stat says that App store downloads are continually on the increase, thanks to the popularity of Apple's App Store and the Android Market. Both stores offer 425,000 and 200,000 programs …

Regular readers of Kitguru will be aware that Apple are currently in the middle of a legal trademark wrangle with Amazon, trying to get them to stop using the term ‘App Store'. Apple have claimed that Amazon have used the term to confuse users as ‘App Store' is associated immediately …

Amazon opened their App Store yesterday, a rival store for the official ‘Android Market'. The new App Store offers both free and paid for applications based on the open source operating system. While the Android market will let users download free and paid for applications, the Amazon App Store will …

Online store Amazon could be preparing to launch their app store tomorrow – aimed at the Google Android userbase. A source within Amazon has leaked information to Wired saying that the retail chain could be launching the app store tomorrow. This new Amazon store is set to lure users away …