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Lots of kids are headed back to school this week, but what about you? Has the summer sun parched your brain as well as burnt your skin? Have you lost some of the momentum you had in the spring to a few months of heat, vacation and relaxation? Get your mind moving again by catching up on some of the latest news and tips for mobile developers in our Back to School webinar series, which starts next Monday. Head over to the events page to register for the webinars, and receive reminders when they're about to kick off.

The series, sponsored by Immersion, features more than dozen webinars spread over two weeks that offer you an easy and convenient way to catch up on some things you might have missed this summer, and to quickly get you up to speed on the latest must-have additions to your apps. The main focus of the series is on Android development, but there's something for everyone. Topics include:

• Android's Advances: Review and Preview
• Designing Haptics in Mobile...

I'm doing some research on all the components that go into making a successful app.  Is it a good idea?  Good planning.  Good market research?  Good marketing?  Practice?  Having investment?  Living in 'the valley'? or having a good luck charm?  My sense is a combination of the above, and a lot of hard work.

Help me out by completing this brief survey. Also - if you are interested in being a case study, please contact me directly (caroline at wipconnector dot com). Thanks!

Push notifications are part of the standard arsenal of developer tools for smartphone apps these days, and a key way to drive users back to apps and services. Urban Airship, one of the leading providers of push notifications (among other things!) recently teamed up with SimpleGeo to offer location-based pushed notifications. The company's VP of Growth, Dylan Boyd, stopped by to share more on the topic with us.

WIP: Hi, please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about what you do at Urban Airship.

DB: Hey! I’m Dylan Boyd and leading all the business development activities for The Ship. Which means I interact with developers, brand marketers, the big ISPs, etc. Also, we are based in Portland, which has a tech scene that is really starting to take off, and we’re hiring! Talk to us!

WIP: You had a big announcement last week in which you're working with SimpleGeo to enable location-based push notifications. We're familiar with push notifications, we're familiar with...

This monthly report is provided courtesy of WIP, and is based on the entries from the WIP App(lication) Store Catalog, the leading resource listing app(lication) stores for mobile developers.

Editor’s Note: Just after the June Report was published, we here at WIP received a letter from Apple’s lawyers. Apple has trademarked, or has filed for trademarks for, the term “app store” in the US, Canada and several other countries. Based on its US trademark -- which is being challenged by Amazon, Microsoft and several other companies -- Apple has demanded that we cease and desist calling this report the “App Store Report” because it “improperly suggests to U.S. consumers that numerous companies offer an APP STORE mobile download service”, not just Apple.

This is why you’ll notice this edition of the report is titled the “App(lication) Store Report”, and any other references to “app stores” have been changed to read “app(lication) stores” -- just to be sure we aren’t confusing US...