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Apple's Mac App Store hits 10,000 apps benchmark

Apple's Mac App Store now contains more than 10,000 applications, according to two different third-party estimates.

French outlet MacGeneration today posted its estimate of the tally based on its own data. Macrumors later pointed to its Appshopper site that pulls App Store data and currently lists the store's total at 10,334 apps.

Apple launched the store on January 6, 2011, as a means of distributing software for Mac the same way it did with success on the iOS platform. In December, Apple said it passed 100 million application downloads by users, while making the claim that … Read more

Tidbits from Apple's 2011 annual filing: Lots of growth

Apple has released its 10-K annual filing, a full rundown of its fiscal year which wrapped up last month.

While there aren't too many surprises given what's found in the company's quarterly reports, it provides a good rundown of some of the company's key metrics over the course of the past 12 months, some of which have been summarized below.

See also: Apple's fiscal 2011 by the numbers

Apple's building space, which it has owned or leased, jumped from 10.6 million square feet, to 13.2 million square feet this year. In its … Read more

Apple gifting $10,000 for its 10 billionth App Store download

Less than 3 years after its celebrated opening, despite pointed punditry and challenging growing pains, Apple's App Store is about to claim 10 billion App downloads. To celebrate, as they did when iTunes reached 10 billion downloads, Apple is giving away a $10,000 iTunes gift card to the person that purchases the 10 billionth download.

"As of today, nearly 10 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store worldwide. Which is almost as amazing as the apps themselves. So we want to say thanks. Download the 10 billionth app, and you could win a $10,000 … Read more

Hitachi ups enterprise hard-drive speed

Though the new 6Gbps SATA standard that Seagate demonstrated awhile ago hasn't been available in any products yet, if you want to get that speed now, there's another option. But only enterprise customers need apply.

Hitachi introduced on Tuesday its second-generation of the 10,000rpm Ultrastar hard drive, the C10K300. The new drive uses a dual-port attached SCSI (SAS) interface that offers data rates up to 6GBps (or about 300MBps), about twice the speed of the previous model. It has average seek times as low as 3.9 milliseconds.

The 2.5-inch drive has a low-power-consumption design with … Read more