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Apple Giving Away $10,000 App Store Credit to Celebrate 50 Billion Downloads!
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A reward of $10,000 worth of apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod is on offer through the App Store for the 50 billionth customer as well as $500 Gift Cards!
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Nintendo Wii U has sold 400,000 units even before its European release
With Nintendo gearing up for its European release of the new Nintendo Wii U console this Friday (30th of Nov), the company has already seen pretty big sales of the new next-gen console since its release in the US at the start of the month. Nintendo’s North American President Reggie Fils-Aime has been touting the success…
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RIM Confirms 5,000 Job Cuts and Delays Blackberry 10 Until 2013
Embattled smartphone maker Research in Motion (RIM) has confirmed it will delay the launch of its new mobile operating system Blackberry 10 and cut 5,000 jobs worldwide.
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Retro Nikon Fisheye Lens is Both Epic and Super Expensive
Whether you’re a lover of vintage photography items or a super-rich hipster, this 1970’s Nikon Fisheye lens is for you. Just one of these lenses is available to buy right now, with a whopping £100,000 price tag. Nikon experts Grays of Westminster are selling the prime lens, which was launched way back in 1970 at…
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Windows Phone App Marketplace Reaches 50,000 Apps
Microsoft’s Windows Phone has reached impressive milestone today as it now has 50,000 apps according to All About Windows Phone. It was only in November that the company was celebrating reaching 40,000 apps and since then they’ve added an impressive 10,000 apps to the platform. Officially Microsoft reckons that there are “more than 35,000 apps”,…
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Facebook Accounts Hacked 600,000 Times A Day
For the first time in its history Facebook has revealed how many times hackers try to access other people’s accounts and it equates to 600,000 logins of a reported 1 billion logins Facebook serve in a 24-hour period. The numbers were revealed in a blog post we talked about last week, which details new ways…
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Google Android Marketplace Reaches 500,000 Milestone
Google’s Android Marketplace reached an impressive milestone over the weekend by passing the half-million mark for apps available, and continuing to close the gap on Apple’s App Store. But there’s a catch: the half-million figure is for Apps which have been published, which also includes apps that have then subsequently been removed because they’re out…
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Sony suspends 93,000 PSN and online accounts after security breach
Sony has announced that it has been forced to suspend over 93,000 accounts on its Playstation Network (PSN), Sony Entertainment Network and Sony Online Entertainment services. Several large security breaches have resulted in an unauthorised source gaining access to the username and password combinations for over 93,000 online accounts. Sony has been quick to release…
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Dubstep remake of classic Nokia ringtone wins competition and $10,000
If you owned a mobile phone in the nineties, or knew somebody who did, then the chances are that Nokia’s classic ringtone will be engrained in your mind forever. That little monophonic ringtone became iconic, back when Nokia ruled the roost in the mobile phone world. With their catchy iconic ringtone, Snake and hugely popular…
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There are now 100,000 apps for the Apple iPad
Apple’s App Store for iPad has just reached an incredible milestone: 100,000 individual apps now available for download. You might think 100,000 isn’t a huge amount, especially given the 500,000+ apps available for iPhone and iPod Touch. If you are thinking that, let’s just go back to April 2010 – just 14 months ago. Steve…
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Google Music will stream 20,000 songs to your Android device
Google’s cloud-based audio offering is set to be unveiled today