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UK woman tips App Store downloads to 10 billion

...The Apple App Store reached the 10 billion downloads mark for on Saturday, with a UK woman playing a key... Read more

24 January, 2011 by Stuart Dredge
How MySpace data chief makes <endeca_term>billions</endeca_term> of records add up

How MySpace data chief makes billions of records add up

...may have slipped behind Facebook, but it still handles up to six billion visitor records a day. With a major revamp due later this year... Read more

22 July, 2010 by Toby Wolpe

Security breaches cost UK billions, says PwC

...incidents are at an all-time high, and are costing UK businesses billions per year, according to auditing house PricewaterhouseCoopers. Hacks, attacks, and insider data... Read more

24 April, 2012

UMTS 3G passes one billion connections

There are now more than a billion connections to networks using the 3GPP family of mobile broadband standards, the... Read more

24 January, 2012

Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS

Fusion-io has demonstrated a billion input/output operations a second via eight HP servers, 64 ioDrive2 Duo... Read more

7 January, 2012

Android and iOS app downloads hit one billion in a week

...A record 1.2 billion apps were downloaded by iPhone and Android owners in the final week... Read more

4 January, 2012 by Natasha Lomas

Android passes 10 billion app milestone

Android users have now downloaded more than 10 billion apps, Google said on Tuesday. The milestone was reached over the past... Read more

7 December, 2011

Citrix expands Receiver support to one billion devices

...also demonstrated Receiver for Web at the event. "With more than one billion devices supported today, Citrix further extends its leadership and ongoing commitment to... Read more

27 May, 2011 by Ben Woods

1.6 billion phones sold as Android grows 888.8

Mobile phone sales grew by 31.8% to 1.6 billion units in 2010, according to figures that Gartner released today. Almost one... Read more

9 February, 2011

Wireless chipset sales hit two billion worldwide

...helped push the worldwide shipment of wireless connectivity chipsets to approximately two billion in 2010, according to new estimates from ABI Research. This figure represents... Read more

27 January, 2011 by Tyler Thia

Quantum computing gets 10 billion qubits closer

...Oxford University researchers have, for the first time, generated a massive 10 billion entangled bits in silicon, taking an important step towards a real world... Read more

21 January, 2011 by Lucy Sherriff

Tablets, internet TVs push BBC iPlayer to almost 2 billion views

...radio and TV shows streamed using BBC's iPlayer close to two billion during 2011. While computers still accounted for two-thirds of the 1... Read more

16 January, 2012 by Nick Heath

One billion HTML5-friendly mobiles coming in 2013

...web apps, rather than native mobile apps, according to IDC. HTML5: 'One billion compatible mobiles to ship in 2013'Photo: W3C under Creative Commons The... Read more

8 December, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

ESA's billion-pixel camera aims to scan space in 3D

...The European Space Agency has unveiled its one-billion pixel imaging device known as Gaia, which will map the Milky Way... Read more

12 July, 2011 by Rory Reid

The Eight Billion Dollar Verb

...this stops everyone asking the question — why would Microsoft pay $8.5 billion for Skype? It's not the technology, which Microsoft already has — with... Read more

10 May, 2011

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