When we talk about app stores, the conversation is normally dominated by Apple and Google but Research In Motion wants to be a part of this discussion and its BlackBerry App World has now surpassed 10,000 mobile programs. “BlackBerry #AppWorld is 10,000 apps strong and growing – what apps do you love?” the company said on its Twitter account. This is a relatively small number when you compare... 

A nice little package of webOS 2.0 beta shots has shown up over at Wibozi, and it’s looking nice. One very handy and apparently easily-accessed feature is setting default apps for filetypes; with the right combination of sideloading and file management, serious hacks probably won’t be necessary for webOS devices to play uncommon and nonstandard formats. There are lots of suggested and default... 

Gather up a group of people who make their living through web design, and they’ll probably all agree on at least two things: A) touchscreens aren’t going anywhere, and B) designing web stuff for touchscreens sort of sucks. Native apps have, in a sense, spoiled users; with things like drag-and-drop and basic touch gesture recognition almost laughably simple to implement in native apps, web app... 

The world of Android music is about to get flipped upside down. We’ve been hearing about Google’s plans to launch a cloud-based music service for some time now — heck, Google itself gave us a peek at the plans during its I/O conference in May. (The news was largely overshadowed by word of the Android 2.2 upgrade, which was announced at the same event.) If the latest rumors prove...