Cupertino: Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008.
Apple said on Thursday that the 50 billionth download was a game called Say the Same Thing by Space Inch.
The App Store had 500 apps when it first opened. It now has more than 850,000 individual apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The store hit the 10 billion downloads mark in early 2011 and 25 billion in March 2012. The 50 billion milestone does not include updates or re-downloads.
Apps range from newspapers and magazines to games, business tools and travel applications....
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08:05 AM, May 17, 2013
San Francisco: Google used its annual conference for software developers, Google I/O, to unveil several new products, services and features. They include enhancements for online games, maps, search, music and photos and are meant to help the company cement its role in people's technological lives. Here's a look at some of the announcements made at Wednesday's keynote at Google I/O. Music streaming: All Access will blend songs you have already...
08:38 AM, May 16, 2013
New York: Barnes & Noble is teaming up with Google to vastly increase the number of apps available on its Nook HD tablets. The bookstore chain says it will add Google's Play app store to its 7-inch Nook HD and 9-inch HD+ products in the US and UK via a software update. The move expands the number of apps available from the roughly 10,000 the Nook already offered in its...
10:51 AM, May 05, 2013
Seoul: Google's app store revenues are growing much faster than those of Apple Inc, but Apple still dominates overall sales, market research data taken from the first three months of the year shows. The app stores collectively raked in $2.2 billion in the first three months of 2013, according to Canalys, a market researcher. The firm says Apple's App Store generated $1.48 billion of revenue, accounting for 74 per cent...
12:38 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Facebook Home, announced earlier this month, is now available on the Google Play store in India - but for select users. Facebook Home currently works on the HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note II. Home will also work on the forthcoming HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. The app will be available for more Android devices in the coming months....
04:44 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Mumbai: After weeks of leaks, Google has begun rolling out a new design for the Play Store. The Store now sports a cleaner user interface, all the categories are now neatly grouped together, and the payment process has undergone some improvements. In a blog post showing off the swanky Card-based layout, Michael Siliski, Group Product Manager for Google Play said that the store was not only simple and clean now,...
02:42 PM, Apr 10, 2013
After satiating the bookworms, Google now has the movie buffs sorted too. Google Play Movies is finally here in India. It's a new section on the Play Store that could well turn out to be your newest movie shopping destination. ...
12:14 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Google has finally made its much-awaited Nexus 7 tablet, with 16GB of storage space, available for Indian consumers via its Google Play (India) store. ...
10:37 AM, Mar 26, 2013
Google has rolled out a new update to its Gmail app for Android, thereby saving your time on the actions - reply, archive, and search - you often use. ...
12:14 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Google Play, the online storefront for music, books and digital goods, turned one on Wednesday. Launched a year ago, Google Play lets users enjoy their favorite music, movies, books and apps on their Android phones and tablets. ...
12:40 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Google has now added books to its Google Play store, for usersin India. Books on Google Play include thousands of Indian titles, from new releases to classics. ...
05:27 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Carbon, a third party app for Twitter, is now available for Android users. Available on Google Play for download, the app has been released for free. ...
10:49 AM, Feb 04, 2013
New Delhi: Google has now made some updates to Google Play Books for Android. The new version now includes an interesting feature "Read aloud" that allows users to listen to most flowing text books. In other words, the read aloud feature will read books to users. This new feature is touted to work with most text-heavy e-books. It does not require any special resources on the part of the e-book...
09:49 AM, Dec 19, 2012
San Francisco: The mobile video game Kingdoms at War is popular with owners of Apple's iPhone and Google's Android smartphones alike. But for the game's maker, there is a very important difference - it earns more than double the money on iPhones and iPads than it does on Android devices. The disparity is a weakness for Android, which has emerged as the world's most widespread mobile operating system, but has...
10:47 AM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: According to a new research report, more than 100,000 Android apps available on Google Play are suspicious. Bit9 has released a report summarising an analysis of more than 4,00,000 Android apps available on Google Play. The report has been prepared after looking at the permissions, categories, publishers, ratings and popularity to rate the overall trustworthiness of each mobile app. The reports states, the majority of Android apps (72...
02:38 PM, Nov 05, 2012
New Delhi: Android's application store, Google Play's security has once again been rattled with the discovery of a new malware application which is said to be stealing sensitive information from the users' Android devices. Identified as 'Trojan!FakeLookout.A' by TrustGo Security Labs, this malicious app steals user SMS/MMS messages and video files, as well as all the files on the user's SD card and transmits them to a remote FTP server...
01:35 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: Smartphone apps are serious business, though developers of Android apps were left in limbo. In India, developers were only allowed to publish free apps, and this had limited the potential for innovative apps because of lack of incentive. Recently, India has made it in to Google's official list of countries where developers can register as certified Google Checkout merchants, thus allowing Indian developers to put out paid apps....
02:13 PM, Sep 24, 2012
San Francisco: Social networking start-up Pinterest has rolled out versions of its service for Android-based smartphones and for the iPad, its latest move to boost its appeal to a broader audience. An online scrapbook where users can "pin" images and share them with others, Pinterest has grown to about 23 million users in July from about one million a year ago, according to online analytics firm comScore. In its first...
11:19 AM, Aug 15, 2012
Mumbai: Google has released its website analytics service as an app for the Android mobile platform. The new Google Analytics app is ideally meant for bloggers, website owners and webmasters to stay updated with website statistics. This new app arrives with limited functionality compared to the exhaustive set of features offered in the web version of the Google Analytics service. Google Analytics offers a comprehensive overview of web traffic and...
12:30 PM, Jul 03, 2012
