An Android developer by the name of Koushik Dutta is building an alternative Android app store which will house the apps that have been banned from Google’s official Android Market. These will include the custom ROMs (customized versions of the Android OS), classic gaming emulators pulled due to copyright complaints, unofficial tethering apps removed at the behest of mobile operators, Visual Voicemail apps,...

Beyond the Android afterthought

The allure of Apps is a potent weapon in the arsenal of any smart phone platform and while Apple iOS has had a head start in the space its rivals are maintaining their efforts to narrow the gap and in the case of Google Android, starting to catch up.As the platform battle rages on, Android is picking up some healthy momentum with Android Market ticking past 11 billion app downloads this month and the latest survey from Ovum saying...

Android Market surpasses 400,000 apps, sees strong development

The Android Market is slowly improving its ability to sell developers’ apps and make them easy to find, with the app store for Google’s mobile platform surpassing 400,000 available apps.That’s double the number of apps available to Android device owners just eight months ago,GigaOM reports, and an indicator that developers are finding value in the platform and the 700,000 Android devices Google says it’s activating every...