App store News

The number of Applications available for the Android platform has now reached 700,000, up from 675,000 just a month ago.

The tech world is abuzz with the news on Facebook’s latest update. With over 425 million users accessing Facebook from a mobile device every month, an update to its iOS app was critical. iPad users will be happy they finally get their own Timeline.

Smartphone and computer tablet applications built for Apple's iOS crash more often than those built for Google's Android operating system, according to research conducted by Crittercism, a mobile application monitoring company, AppAdvice reported.

Apple announced that it has reached its goal of 10 billion downloads Saturday morning with the awarding of a $10,000 App store gift card to a woman from the United Kingdom.

Apple's popular App Store will be available on Macs starting January 6. It will be a desktop replica of the App Store found on smartphones where users can download a variety of applications.

The App Store has over 100,000 apps the company announced this week with the iPhone the leader of the pack for applications. The store has customers in 77 countries.

Apple has released some interesting statistics today for its iPhone App Store, showing that downloads of apps have passed the 2 billion mark, and that there are now more than 85,000 apps available.

Apple has made a somewhat unprecedented move and approved a music streaming application called "Spotify" into the iTunes app store.

Facebook just launched their latest version of the Facebook for iPhone app, which now takes full use of the iPhone 3.0 OS and the many new features it brings to the table.

LG has just announced its own mobile application store in beta and says its not intended to be "a new or separate business model."