Sep 05

Twitter Mobile Users up Over 60 Percent Since April

Twitter Mobile Users up Over 60 Percent Since April
Twitter’s mobile user base has spiked 62 percent since mid-April, thanks in great part to the release of official Twitter applications for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry phones.
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Child safety: Is there an app for that?
As digital sharing becomes ubiquitous, experts warn that Apple’s applications, or “apps” – able to be downloaded directly to a user’s phone or Internet-connected iPod – are coming loaded with their own dangers.
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Top-Grossing iTunes Apps: Sonic 2, Ultimate Spider-Man Enter Top Three
Every week, sister iPhone and iPad site FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad applications, as current that day in the iTunes App Store, and this chart is now available on Gamasutra. This week’s U.S. revenue charts see Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Gameloft’s Ultimate Spider-Man leading sales on the iPhone, as Angry Birds HD and Medieval HD top the iPad charts. These …
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Aug 25

Blip or Breakthrough? Mac Sales to Government Up 200 Percent.

Blip or Breakthrough? Mac Sales to Government Up 200 Percent.
Apples June quarter was a tremendous one for Mac sales to enterprise and government. Needham & Company analyst Charlie Wolfs analysis of sales figures for the period shows a 49.8 percent year-over-year increase in Macs sales to business and a massive 200.8 percent year-over-year gain in Mac sales to government.
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Apple Government Sales Rose 200 Percent in June
If anyone thought that Apple passing Microsoft in market capitalization was a fluke, then a new report seems to suggest that the fluke might continue for quite awhile.
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News: Angry Birds creator hawking movie rights
Toys, comics and TV shows planned too. The company behind Angry Birds hopes to sell the rights to produce TV shows, movies, toys and comics based on the hit iPhone game. That’s according to Variety, which puts sales at AB of more than 6.5 million. And that’s just the paid-for iPhone version – the free trial has been downloaded 11 million times, while sales of the iPad game stand at 200,000. But …
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