Christmas Day is surely the day of treats and gifts. Apparently, App Store was on the receiving end of goodies this year on Christmas. It witnessed an 87 percent jump in the average daily downloads, leading to a whopping 70 percent increase in its revenue.
Netflix’s video streaming services are availed by a sizeable population in the U.S. Things turned rather unfestive for the company on the Christmas eve when it witnessed a widespread outage of the service across the country. The streaming eventually resumed normal functioning later.
Korean pop artist Psy has touched another milestone. His Gangnam Style dance track has smashed the records to become the first video to reach one billion views in YouTube.
A newly leaked image of a BlackBerry 10 device shows that the name for the first BlackBerry 10 phone will be BlackBerry Z10.
Game developer Infinite Dreams has thrown a Christmas sale on its popular games at Apple App Store. The offer includes the iOS Jelly Defense (selling at $0.99) and the highly-acclaimed game Shoot The Zombirds (available for FREE).
Online video service Hulu officially launched a monthly subscription service Hulu Plus on November 17, 2010. Do you know how many people are subscribed to Hulu Plus so far? It’s more than 3 million subscribers.
Iran has never been a state for an open and free internet. The Iranian government has always tried to filter out a major portion of the web so that Iranian citizens are unable to access it, at least not without some difficulty. In the midst of all this, Iran’s Supreme Leader has just joined Facebook.
Most of us turn to TV to get ourselves a nice dose of entertainment. Imagine watching one of your favorite movies on HBO when all of a sudden, a TV commercial appears which is a lot louder than the volume of the movie. Naturally, it’s terribly annoying but thankfully, this will no longer be happening.