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Apple: 500,000 apps, 18 billion downloads, 100 million for Mac

Cupertino responds to a Google milestone with a flurry of nice round numbers Source: Google Last Tuesday, Google (GOOG) announced that Android users had downloaded more than 10 billion apps from the Android Market and that the number of downloads was … Continue reading

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RadioShack Combines Promos To Offer The iPhone 4S (AT&T) On The Cheap

So you missed out on getting the new iPhone 4S when it came out. Worse, all your friends got the new Apple flagship and make fun of your 3GS at every possible opportunity. Plus, all the holiday shopping you’ve been … Continue reading

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Apple: 100 Million Downloads From Mac App Store In Less Than One Year

Apple this morning announced that there are now over half a million applications available in the mobile applications-specific App Store, and that over 100 million of apps have been downloaded from the desktop software marketplace Mac App Store in less … Continue reading

Apple’s Mac App Store Downloads Top 100 Million

CUPERTINO, California—December 12, 2011—Apple® today announced that over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac® App Store™ in less than one year. With thousands of free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the App Store experience … Continue reading

Is DigiTimes trying to kill the iPad 2′s Christmas sales?

No, but the steady flow of rumors about a new iPad just around the corner aren’t helping Source: Digitimes Remember what happened to iPhone 4 sales last summer? They hit a wall in mid-July, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook, … Continue reading

‘EasyRa1n.com’ Releases EasyRa1n Unlock and Jailbreak for iPhone 4 iOS 5.0.1 and 4S

(AppleNews247.Coma1n 0.9, an unlock and untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4/4S iOS 5.0.1 firmware. It is good news for jailbreakers because Apple did not patch the hole discovered by @EasyRa1n. The code for this exploit was used in the unlock and … Continue reading

Kindle Fire Review Reveals Good, BAD and the UGLY of the Amazon Tablet and Compares to Apple iPad

(AppleNews247.Com, December 11, 2011 ) Champaign, IL — The question is not if the Amazon Kindle Fire is the ideal tablet or not, but if the Kindle Fire meets YOUR expectations as a tablet or not says Amanda, the creator … Continue reading

Stephen Wolfram: It was Steve Jobs who named ‘Mathematica’

The creator of the answer engine in Siri writes about his long relationship with Jobs Wolfram. Photo: Creative Commons There are a several novel anecdotes about Apple’s (AAPL) late CEO in the piece British scientist Stephen Wolfram wrote for Saturday’s … Continue reading

Apple posts photos of its Grand Central Store opening

Click to enlarge. Apple’s (AAPL) official photographs of  Friday’s opening ceremonies — and the crowd that gathered in Grand Central Terminal to watch them — are now available on its retail website.  We posted a couple videos here. One as yet … Continue reading

SEO Press Release Distribution Service, EmailWire, on "Search Engine Optimization and Web 2.0"

(AppleNews247.Com, December 10, 2011 ) Houston, TX SEO press release distribution services, EmailWire NewsWire (http://www.emailwire.com), that has been helping SEO and marketing firms with their press release distribution recommends “Search Engine Optimization and Web 2.0:” http://groupweb.tradepub.com/free/w_aaaa188/?p=w_aaaa188. Bloofusion, authors of the … Continue reading