ABI Research forecasts that almost six billion mobile apps will be downloaded in 2010, driven by the rapid adoption of smartphones.

According to Gartner, consumers will spend $6.2 billion downloading apps from mobile application stores this year, while ad revenue is expected to generate $0.6 billion worldwide.

DeviceAnywhere has announced its support for GPS-enabled handsets within DeviceAnywhere Test Centre, and has also entered into a co-marketing agreement with NAVTEQ to support the development of the next generation of location-enabled solutions.

Palm Pre users should be pleased and maybe relieved to learn that the Palm will open its app store for the Pre next month. The Pre launched with a much lower number of available apps than other new smartphones

Sony Ericsson will add applications to its mobile content service, PlayNow^TM arena, offering consumers a fully integrated content marketplace for their Sony Ericsson phones and giving third-party developers access to an established mobile market channel.