- iTunes has sold more than 25 billion songs, 15,000 downloaded every minute Music lovers have purchased and downloaded more than 25 billion songs from the iTunes Store, Apple, as creators of "the world's most popular online music, TV and movie store", announced recently.
- Google Play will hit one million apps this June After the single busiest week in terms of new device activations and app downloads in Android history, we study the size of Google Play's app directory and predict when it's likely to reach the magical one million app milestone.
- Separate signal from noise with Relevance, a news stream reader with a difference Like most avid consumers of news our streams are often clogged with venial content that only serves to distract us from what's most important and most relevant personally. Now, a new iOS app known as Relevance, which launches on the App Store next Wednesday, attempts to overcome this. We got early access to the app and were quite impressed.
- Apple removes Android app listings from Chomp Apple has removed all Android app listings from Chomp, the app search and discovery service that it acquired in February of this year.
- Apple counts down to 25 billionth app download Apple is counting down to its 25 billionth app download and will celebrate the significant milestone by giving away a $10,000 gift card to whoever downloads app number 25,000,000,000.
- RTÉ Player app for iPhone and iPad arrives in time for Christmas As promised by RTÉ's director of platform development Aisling McCabe at October's Dublin Web Summit, the RTÉ Player app for the iPhone and iPad has been released in time for Christmas. The universal iOS app made its way through Apple's App Store approval process last weekend, and was made available for free download as of this morning.
- Facebook debuts its long-awaited iPad app Facebook's long-awaited iPad app is finally available to download in the App Store, and yes, this time it's for real. The app looks very similar to the one that was accidentally leaked in July, with full screen photo viewing placing an emphasis on media consumption.
- Amazon launches Kindle Cloud Reader to bypass Apple's App Store restrictions Amazon today, Wednesday, unveiled the Kindle Cloud Reader, an HTML5-based version of their Kindle book reader app that works on Chrome for Mac, Windows and Chrome OS, and on Safari for Mac, Windows and most notably the iPad.
- Friendly for Facebook iPad app attracts 3 million monthly users Friendly for Facebook, the unofficial Facebook iPad app developed by Oecoway and first released in August 2010, now attracts over three million monthly users according to All Facebook.
- Apple App Store statistics [Infographic] App of the Day, a site that features a community-nominated iOS app everyday, have released an interesting infographic on app statistics. The infographic visualises various app data including proportionate data between paid and free apps, specific iOS platform data as regards the percentage of apps available to each, app category distribution, and app prices per category.