What do you need to be really popular on Apple’s App store and to get into the overall “top free 25,” list?The answer is in the US, you need to have at least 38,400 free daily downloads, or 3,530 paid downloads, according to some ball park** figures released by app analysts Distimo.

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Woz Woz Ere – Sony has hired Steve ‘The Wozinator’ Wozniak to act as an advisor on its upcoming Sorkin-penned Steve Jobs: The Movie. So who will he be pitching to play him? We can’t think of anyone. Woz is inimitable. He’ll just have to play himself. [Gizmodo UK]

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The popular Amazon Kindle Fire may be about to get even cheaper if plans to introduce an ad-supported model are implemented.

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Amazon Kindle Fire review

According to AdAge, the online retail giant is exploring the possibility of placing ads onto the welcome screen of the Kindle Fire, with [...]

PayPal believes that NFC is not the holy grail of future payment, telling TechRadar that the world could have moved on by the time enough people have the technology on their mobile phones.

Many companies are pinning a good deal of hope on near field communication (NFC) technology, and many of the [...]

iPhone prices have been dropping like flies this month, with Best Buy the latest retailer to join in with its own deal on the iPhone 4.

Starting this week, Best Buy is offering its stock of 8GB iPhone 4 handsets for $50.

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iPhone 5 release date, news and rumours

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Facebook will officially begin trading at $38 (£24) per share on Friday morning in what will be the biggest IPO ever from an internet company.

After months of speculation, and a week of last minute adjustments from Facebook, Friday’s listing on the NASDAQ index will raise $16 billion (£10bn) for Mark Zuckerberg’s company.

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Verizon Wireless plans to begin shifting existing customers away from unlimited data plans as the carrier upgrades customers from 3G networks to its faster 4G LTE network.

Verizon stopped offering unlimited data plans to new customers last July, but those who were already on unlimited data plans were considered “grandfathered” in and were allowed to [...]

The Metropolitan Police will introduce new forensic software, which will allow it to extract information from a suspect’s mobile phone within minutes.

The Aesco Software will be able to quickly obtain call and messaging data, even if the SIM card is locked, meaning the boys in blue won’t have to send the device [...]