Apple Mac Store hits 10,000 available apps

There are apparently over10,000 apps available in the Mac App Store making it the biggest and fastest growing computer software store online. Independent sources tallied up the app market. Reports from MacGeneration and Macrumors have both reported that the store now offers over 10,000 apps for purchase and download to Mac computers. It is good to see a thriving Mac OS developer community for the desktop and not just for the hugely popular mobile devices.

Sources: Macrumors and Macgeneration via Cnet

Updated iPad apps take advantage of new Retina Display

Updated iPad apps are starting to roll out. This will be a busy iOS update week as developers start offering their upscaled apps. The apps have been rewritten for the 4 X resolution of the new Retina Display. Here's a partial list of new apps that have scaled up to look better on the new iPad

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Nokia's Lumia 710 Windows Phone to see daylight in February via Rogers

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

This is the most significant Windows Phone news in a while. Rogers will be offering the Nokia Lumia 710 next month for $254 outright with various pricing options for monthly plans, this is the first of three new Nokia smartphones running Windows Phone. The Lumia 800 and the LTE enabled Lumia 900 have not yet been earmarked for release in Canada.

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News: Samsung sells over 300 million handsets

Red hot Samsung has said that the company has sold 300 million handsets in 2011 as of November. A report from The Chosunilbo states that "Samsung Electronics sold more than 300 million mobile phones worldwide this year, the second phone maker after Nokia to achieve the milestone in one year."

According to the report, Samsung sold an average of nine handsets a second and 820,000 a day. If the 300 million handsets are piled up, they would be more than 300 times the height of Mt. Everest.

Having seen many of the Canadian Samsung smartphone models this year, we're certain that most of the devices sold are Google Andrioid phones.

Source: The Chosunilbo