Apple's App Store hits 15 Billion downloads

Apple announced that over 15 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store by the more than 200 million iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users worldwide. The App Store offers more than 425,000 apps and developers have created an incredible array of over 100,000 native iPad apps and has been in operation for almost two years, the Apple App Store debuted in July 10, 2008.

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CES 2011: Opera outs browser for tablets

Opera knows browsers and apparently also has a good grasp of what works with tablets. Previewing their Android tablet browser at CES 2011, Opera hopes to make inroads into the upcoming tablet explosion, something it missed doing with smartphones by coming late to the market.

"In 2011, tablets are a new must-have. Opera is creating waves with the first public preview of Opera for tablets," added Christen Krogh, chief development officer of Opera Software, in a statement. "Opera for tablets brings the same trusted Internet experience to tablets and netbook PCs as users have come to love on their mobile phones and desktops."

Mobile browser face-off: Opera Mini vs Skyfire vs Safari vs Firefox vs Internet Explorer

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Ten years ago, the idea that we would be viewing complex webpages on our phones was preposterous. We didn’t have the screens, we didn’t have the broadband speeds and we didn’t have mobile browsers. Well, we didn’t have anything resembling a smartphone either.

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Preview! Windows Phone OS

Windows Phone will be available in North America in October 2010, Canada will be getting the first devices the same time as the US. Here's a preview of the interface as well as some of the features. Canadianreviewer.com got a preview during the XBox 2010 preview event. We list down our observations.

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