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More than 2bn iPhone/iTouch apps downloaded

By Julie Starr | Published: September 29, 2009
More than 2 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s app store for iPhones and iTouch devices, Apple announced yesterday. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program. Today, iPhone and iPod touch customers [...]
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Surge of News apps for iPhone

By Julie Starr | Published: July 18, 2009
Ben Lorica has a roundup of recent iPhone app sales on the O’Reilly Radar blog and notes a surge in apps for News. On any given week, about 22% of all apps in the U.S. iTunes store are free. The percentage of free News apps is slightly higher (31%). The most popular News apps are [...]
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Facebook NZ’s favourite social network

By Julie Starr | Published: July 1, 2008
Facebook was the number one social network in NZ in May, according to Hitwise. Facebook accounted for 39.87 per cent of visits in "a custom category of 40 leading social networks in May 2008, tightly followed by Bebo with 39.15 percent of visits". MySpace had 7.81 percent market share, Orkut 2.86 percent and Windows Live Spaces 2.44 percent.
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