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Amazon took a bite out of Apple Thursday as a federal judge ruled the online retailer is free to call its app store an app store.

Apple Inc customers downloaded more than 15 billion applications in the past three years, the company said on Thursday, releasing figures that suggest the rate of downloads is sharply accelerating.

Apple brags about 15 billion app downloads and counting.

Technology giant Apple said more than 15 billion applications have been downloaded from its App store and paid over $2.5 billion to developers.

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List of Top 10 most dedicated Mac OS X apps that will also be useful with Mac OS X Lion.

A universal iOS app has been submitted to Apple’s App Store.

The Google+ app for iOS is set for release later this year.

A new app aims to maximize the chances of meeting a member of the opposite sex by using facial recognition technology to show how many men and women there are in any given bar.

Here's wishing you'll a very Happy Independence Day.

What are the possible benefits of various smartphone apps that you can imagine? Have you ever thought of an app that can track down enemies? Yes, there is a smartphone app for that.

Facebook engineer Vladimir Kolesnikov has designed Circle Hack, a much simpler way to create Facebook friend lists.

Apple recently celebrated its 100,000th iPad app in the App store, setting a new milestone in the company’s history.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network giant plans to launch something awesome next week, possibly in response to the Google+ release earlier this week.

After a delay of more than two months, AT&T Inc has agreed to support BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd's Bridge application, which lets BlackBerry users see email and other services on RIM's PlayBook tablet without incurring additional charges.

Apple's closest competitor at the moment is the Android App Market which has nearly 220,000 apps.

Skype launches its new version for Android users. Initially the software will be supported in selective Android phones.

Facebook, the world's biggest social networking Web site, plans to launch something awesome next week. Speculation is growing that the upcoming announcement may be a long-awaited Facebook app for Apple's iPad and a specialized app for photo-sharing on the iPhone. Facebook has not yet introduced an iPad app.

The most attractive feature about the phone is a blue Facebook button at the bottom.

This isn't the first time Facebook has hired an infamous hacker: In fact, there are several teenaged hackers who got rewarded for their cyber-crime instead of being imprisoned.

In a bid to challenge Google's collection of online office productivity and communications programs called 'Google Apps', Microsoft starts selling Office 365, a cloud-based version of its Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications.