App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012

 CUPERTINO, California―January 7, 2013―Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps*, with nearly 20 billion in 2012 alone. The App Store℠ has over 500 million active accounts and had a record-breaking December with over two billion downloads during the month. Apple’s incredible developer community has created over 775,000 apps for iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® users worldwide, and developers have been...

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MLB polishes At Bat 13 on iOS and Android ahead of Opening Day, brings app to BlackBerry Z10

Opening Day App Updates Available Today Updates Available for At Bat & At The Ballpark for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android; Beat The Streak Presented by Dunkin’ Donuts for iPhone & iPod touch MLB.COM AT BAT 13 DEBUTS ON BLACKBERRY Z10 NEW YORK, March 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball and an award-winning mobile app developer, today...

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HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now

The story, “HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now,” posted to the wire on Thursday, incorrectly characterized Cloudera. Read the original: HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with nowanonymous

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Jorge Colombo’s iPad Finger Paintings

January 21, 2013Posted by Mina Kaneko and Francoise Mouly “‘Newsstand’ is the first piece I ever did on an iPad,” says Jorge Colombo, about this week’s cover. “I started drawing on an iPhone at the beginning of 2009, and, at the time, I liked being able to work so small. I got so used to the size that the first time I used the iPad, it felt like I had a pinball machine in front of me. In time, however, I became more proficient on the...

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The After Math: a million Z10s, the UnCarrier’s new plan and a 16-button controller

Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages This week, there’s been a mixed bag of interesting news numbers, from T-Mobile’s New York event and the company’s new perspective on the phone network business, to San Francisco (again) for the Games Developers Conference. We also got to take a look at BlackBerry’s first financial...

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