WIndows 8 to feature built-in app store?

The unconfirmed screenshot above from Winrumors reveals a possibly interesting development for Windows 8. A Windows App Store. Looks like there will be an Apps section as well as a Store section where downloaded apps are collected. The mock up shows Office 2010 as one of the downloadable applications. The best thing about built-in App Stores is automatic app updates which will make everyone's life easier.

Apple's App Store celebrates 10 Billion downloads

A sure sign that Apple's iOS ecosystem is thriving, the 10th Billion app download milestone was reached today by the Apple App Store. Opening in July 2008, the App Store marked the legitimacy of the iPhone and iPod Touch as computing devices that could run multiple applications, barely 3 years later 10 Billion applications have made it to the 160 million iOS devices out there. The number one app in the store is still Angry Birds.

Apple's App Store celebrates 250,000 apps

Apple has recently hit a milestone of selling 250,000 apps in its ever expanding iOS ecosystem. While most of these are iPhone and iPod Touch apps, a growing number are iPad specific. Apple is maintaining a strangehold on the smartphone app market for smartphones and tablet devices. Google's Android OS is second and while it has recently sold more smartphones its selection rings in about 100,000 apps.

Review: Hipstamatic Camera for the iPhone (updated)

By Gadjo C. Sevilla

It is seldom that we find one iPhone app that gives us so much pleasure to use. As photograhy buffs, we've run the gamut of iPhone camera apps which enhance the device's convenient but often limited built-in camera. We've had our turn with Lomography type cameras as well as special effects apps that alter and enhance photos but many of those feel like cheap gimmicks. When we discovered Hipstamatic App, this all changed.

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