Apple is adding a Food & Drink category to its 650,000 apps list on the App Store to help boost your culinary skills.
In an effort to make feeding a little easier, Apple is adding a Food & Drink category to its online marketplace, which constitutes thousands of apps involving food and drinks, recipes, and cooking, such as grilling, cocktails, and craft beer as its most famous features.
Originally listed under the Lifestyle category, this new section joins the roster of other App Store …

The Android vs iOS debate has developed into quite a battle between the two best mobile operating systems to date. The main question is, which one is better?
In general, the good side of Android is that it is a wonderful open environment, which allows users to engage in high mobile customization. Meanwhile, people think of iOS as being simple, functional and beautiful.
On to the negative side, some see Android as ridden by viruses, while Apple binds and cripples iOS.
Let’s compare the two …

The new American Red Cross app allows smart phone users to learn about first aid and respond to emergency situations (Image: via androidpolice.com)

The American Red Cross released a new free app that contains basic life-saving info, readily available to smartphone users, especially during emergencies.
This app is available for both iPhone and Android platforms, and allows you to get first-aid instructions instantly.
Furthermore, the Red Cross app helps users deal with such situations as heart …

Tim Cook has announced that the Apple App Store now has over 30 billion downloads, a mark that places the closest competition next to nil.
The Apple CEO gave a keynote at the tech giant’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco earlier this week, where he revealed the thumping 30 billion downloads milestone, which is 16 billion more than last year’s mark announced at the WWDC 2011.
After a comedy routine from voice-based virtual assistant Siri to open the program, Cook …

Facebook App Center, Available Only In The U.S. (Image via USA Today)

Facebook has officially launched its new online applications store, App Center. The store brings together applications for mobile devices (iOS and Android) and for web as well, with the main menu divided in two sections.
Submenu of each section offers categories such as games, music, news, sports, utilities, etc. – in total about 600 applications that use Facebook integration, their number following to grow rapidly in the …

A Chinese man has won the $10,000 iTunes gift card Apple has laid on the line for the individual who will download the 25 billionth app from the Apple App Store, the company revealed on Monday.
In a release, Apple said that Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China has won the promotion from the iPhone maker for downloading a free version of the “Where’s My Water?” app from the Apple App Store.
Apple recently revealed that the Apple App Store has surpassed 25 billion downloads via an announcement it …

Apple has revealed that the Apple App Store has already served more than 25 billion app downloads.
The iPod, iPhone and iPad maker replaced the big counter it had on the Apple homepage on Saturday to announce to the world the latest milestone its Apple App Store has reached.
The notice read: “A billion thanks. 25 times over. The App Store has reached 25 billion downloads. Thanks for getting us here.”
The notice included the icons for the apps available on the Apple App Store including Yelp, …

Chinese authors are now suing Apple for supposedly publishing and selling book titles that are subject to copyright infringement on its App Store.
According to a report from Reuters, the authors are charging Apple as much as 11.9m Yuan ($1.9m) for allegedly allowing several copyrighted books into its marketplace.
For months now, the group of nine authors has tried to sue and make Apple get rid of the copyright-infringing books from the online store.
They have already filed a lawsuit against …

The Nokia Store, formerly Ovi Store, has eclipsed the 100,000-marketplace-apps mark, mobile analyst firm Distimo reports.
Nokia’s app store has remained in the shadows of rivals and market leaders Apple App Store and Google’s Android Market for quite some time, and it currently still is.
According to Distimo, the Nokia Store now offers 116,583 mobile apps, a sufficient number to make the Finnish giant’s app store the world’s third largest app repository after the App Store and Android …

The Apple App Store has generated six times more revenue than Google’s Android Market in terms of top 200 grossing titles, analytics firm Distimo reports.
The study also took into account the January to November 2011 number of game apps for Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace, Nokia’s Ovi Store and RIM’s BlackBerry App World, the first of which now the fourth largest app store in this category.
Distimo’s report also says that in-app purchases had 65 percent of revenues for the top …