It looks like Apple is currently having some trouble with the iTunes and App Stores. We have received emails from a number of readers indicating that it is not possible to purchase or update new content at this time. Users on the Apple message boards are reporting similar issues.

An upcoming jailbreak tweak has the ability to save users' iTunes password, making App Store purchases all the more speedier.

Apple's mobile application store is now available in 33 more countries, including Algeria, Iceland and Trinidad.

No Internet? No problem, as you might someday be able to buy and receive apps and music without a connection.

The Google+ iPhone app is now the number one application in the App Store, less than a day following its release. The application allows users to access Google+ in a native iPhone app, provided users have already been invited to use the social network. Unfortunately, the application is not yet compatible with iOS 5, meaning iOS developers running a prerelease version of the upcoming mobile operating system will have to stick with the mobile Web version of Google+, for now.

Three years after the first app was downloaded and installed from the App Store, the total number of apps purchased has exceeded those of music. This news comes as the result of a new asymo survey released earlier this week.

Apple has not been very open regarding their actual profit from the App Store. Now, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has put together an estimate of the profit Apple makes from all those downloads.

Today is a very special day in the App Store world. Exactly three years ago Apple launched the App Store, on July 10, 2009.

Just how popular is the App Store? Apple announced today that 200 million iPhone/iPod touch and iPad users have downloaded 15 billion apps since the store went online in July 2008. The company made the announcement via a press release.

Last night brought bad news for the guys in Cupertino, CA: According to Dan Levine of Reuters (citing a court document), a U.S. judge has rejected the preliminary injunction Apple recently filed against Amazon. The disagreement, as I'm sure you remember, revolves around the recently launched Amazon Appstore.

Ah, Pokémon: Endless hours of my youth were spent hunched over a Game Boy Advance, catching "pocket monsters" in the wild grasses of Kanto. I loved the TV show, the movies and even the trading cards, too - and though I've grown up now, I still feel slightly downhearted that those little creatures still haven't made their way into the App Store.

A new report by one analyst with Global Equities Research claims Apple's iTunes platform (which includes the iTunes Store, App Store and iBookstore) will generate $13 billion in 2013.

The best iPhone applications of the week, all in one place.

The numbers do not lie: 453 days after the iPad debuted on April 3, 2010, there are now over 100,000 apps available for it for download. While this milestone is important, it means nothing unless compared to the competition and by looking at what it means for the future of iOS.

Apple has removed a pro-Palestinian application from the App Store, following its condemnation by a Jewish human rights group and a top Israeli official. The iPhone application, ThirdIntifada, can no longer be downloaded from Apple's App Store.

INK: Tattoo Simulator is a new, free application for the iPhone and iPod touch, which allows users to check what a tattoo looks like on their body before having the work done.

The Best iPad Apps Of The Week is published each weekend; a companion piece, The Best iPhone Apps Of The Week, is published separately.

The Best iPhone Apps Of The Week is published each weekend; a companion piece, The Best iPad Apps Of The Week, is published separately.

The amount of money made by app developers will exceed those collected from music downloads within the next three years. This is the conclusion made by a new survey entitled, "The app industry vs. the music industry," by asymco.

The war of words between Apple and Amazon just got nastier. In a new court filling, Apple calls Amazon’s Appstore for Android “inferior," according to Computerworld.

With every new iOS iteration, Apple's accused of eroding the App Store. I'm not convinced.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has just announced another amazing cloud feature - iOS applications stored in the cloud.

A massive 400,000 iOS applications are now available to download in Apple’s App Store.