Apple’s App Store launched nearly five years ago and they are counting down to the 50 billionth downloaded app. In celebration, the company will reward the person who downloads that app with a $10,000 App Store gift card. In line with this, Apple also revealed its updated lists of all-time top iPhone and iPad apps. [...]

Google Glass Chances are, if you’ve ever tried out a Nike+ FuelBand, a Jawbone UP, or apps like RunKeeper or Strava for runners and cyclists, then you’ve seen the powerful effects that gamification can have.    

7659.com is a Chinese “app store”  that is using Apple’s own bulk enterprise licensing technology to distributed pirated apps to Chinese iPhone and iPad users, completely free.    

. Put on a pair of these magic underpants called Fundawear, and you’ll be able to feel your lover’s touch from anywhere on the planet. (Video)    

Flurry Analytics began measuring mobile usage and helping developers sell ads when the iPhone was barely a year old and Apple had not yet launched the App Store.      

Apple’s iOS App Store has seen incredible growth and has doubled its payouts to developers (now totaling over $8 billion) and sparked the creation of over 80,000 new jobs directly related to building software for Apple’s mobile platform within the last year.      

For teens, the mobile messaging apps represent freedom from Facebook. Facebook is last place you want to be these days if you are a daring, unruly malcontent of a teen.  Facebook is now the Establishment of social networks, and for teens, that’s reason enough to stay away from it.      

Android is the world’s most popular smartphone platform — with nearly 70 percent of the market. In 2012, nearly 80 percent of all mobile malware found was written for phones running Google’s mobile Android operating system, according to a report from security firm F-Secure.    

“Internet of Things” We will soon be able to build apps for our cars, thermostats, refrigerators, and more thanks to the “Internet of Things.” But what happens when attackers get into your company’s system through an ice maker instead of the phishing email we’re all so used to?    

70 billion apps will be downloaded worldwide in 2013. Ten apps will be downloaded for every single woman, man, and child on the planet in 2013. According to ABI Research, half of those apps will be Android apps, which will have 58 percent smartphone app share and 41 percent of those will be iOS apps. [...]