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Apple AppStore has reached the landmark of 1 million apps submitted to its App Store since July 2008, according to a tweet byApp Store discovery company Appsfire. The app count includes iOS apps only and doesn’t account for Mac App Store apps. Appsfire, provided some details of how the App Store reached the figure. Of the one million app submissions since 2008, 493,289 were paid and 158,848 were [...]

Apple’s MAC OS X operating system versions follow the pattern of naming after felines, since OS X debuted in 2001 we had Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. The current version, OS X 10.8, is known as Mountain Lion. Apple may have decided that OS 10.9 will be called Lynx, according to blog site AppleScoop.   AppleScoop says that a reliable source has revealed [...]

Tweetro one of the most popular downloads in the Windows Store and the first Twitter app that uses the “Metro” tiled interface that distinguishes Windows 8 was refused extra “tokens” beyond the permissible 100,000 tokens that would allow more than 100,000 users to access Twitter through Tweetro and to grow its user base. Until the time Windows 8 gets a native Twitter app , [...]

Apple may be going with guns blazing at Samsung in the patent war, but, it’s open for a truce when it comes to other competitors, after  reaching a global settlement with HTC  in multiple patent related cases Apple and Motorola  are currently in talks to resolve their several patent disputes.  Bloomberg reported  that both the companies have  exchanged “proposals on using binding arbitration [...]

Close on the heels of  Facebook’s new mobile share button, Twitter has today added an option to “Share this tweet via email” so you can send content to recipients via email. Sharing via email button appears in the ‘more’ menu alongside reply, favorite, and retweet. It could be a powerful way to spread the service and convince new people to sign up. It’s rolling out over the next few days. [...]

Facebook has introduced a platform called Developer Alerts for  developers which  will allow developers to get alerts when Facebook makes platform changes that could impact their apps. Facebook will communicate via Facebook notifications and email for those listed as administrators or developers of apps. The social network said in a post on its developer blog that alerts will be sent in the following [...]

Sales of Apple’s new variant of iPad and latest  iPhone lineup are surprising strong according to supply chain sources who spoke with Katy Huberty of Morgan Stanley . The iPhone 5 and new iPads will trigger a surge in sales for Apple this quarter and next, says  Huberty. “Key suppliers into iPhone and iPad noted above seasonal March quarter order trends, stronger than expected December [...]

Facebook has launched its new mobile Share button on Android, iOS and mobile web. The button has been rumored for some time . Facebook’s Aditya Koolwal says that the Share button “gives people a fast way to share stories with friends from their mobile phones, just as they can from their computers.” The iOS app is now live in the App Store, and brings along improvements to tagging and News Feed [...]

Pinterest, the current social media rage which lets users collect and share images is now allowing businesses and corporations to create official accounts, businesses can officially link their websites so they are listed on their Pinterest profiles. For example, Tesco can now verify that its Pinterest page is company endorsed and linked to www.tesco.com. Companies will also be add to add Pin It and [...]

Google’s latest Nexus branded LG manufactured devices went on sale in U.K. and rest of Europe today on the Play store, alongside the refreshed Nexus 7 tablet  and soon were lapped up by customers.  Both versions of Nexus 4 are now listed as ‘coming soon’ on the Play Store in the U.K. The aggressively priced 8GB version is only £240 in the UK. In the US the phone costs just $299, but does [...]