If you’re app addicted like we are, then you’re never sated in your desire to find the newest and the best. While we (ahem) feel we do an admirable job here at TNW Apps of bringing you the best and brightest, a new iOS app fromAppsMarketingcalledAppFreewayis looking to take a slightly different approach. Instead of just highlighting free or only showing paid apps. AppsFreeway works with developers to highlight paid apps and give them away....

Digital media expert Simon Buckingham is the CEO ofAppitalism, a social, online digital media store that enables consumers to discover, share and download from a catalog of over 10 million apps, songs, books, games and videos compatible with a range of smartphones, tablets, PCs and eBook readers. On the forefront of the social app commerce market, Buckingham is in a unique position to review and play with a plethora of new, innovative addicting apps....

In the past decade, Apple has gone from being a bit player in the PC industry to the largest technology company in the world, making products in several categories that are used by millions of people around the globe. Apple’s two major operating systems—iOS and Mac OS X—power all of its most major products across the PC and consumer electronics segments. In recent memory, Apple has shown great commitment towards making sure that the OS, along with both its bundled and third-party apps, takes on the responsibility of protecting the user’s data....

A new research report by Research2Guidancesuggest that Apple is still the undisputed king of mobile application downloads, accounting for 59% of all application downloads across 58 app stores in the first quarter of 2011. Despite its dominance, Apple’s app market share has declined by 22% within three years as Google’s Android platform became widely adopted by a number of smartphone vendors with the mobile operating system powering hundreds of smartphone handsets....

Apple has today made its iBookstore available in 25 more countries, expanding the market for iBooks out to many more markets,reports author Liz Castro. The new countries available are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland. These options have become available in iTunes connect for authors that are looking to market their wares in more regions....