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The App store is about to pass another milestone, and this one is a biggie–50 billion downloads worldwide.  To celebrate this monumental accomplishment, they are rewarding the individual who downloads the 50 billionth app with a $10,000 gift card.  Didn’t quite make it in time?  Your consolation prize could be …

Fans of old-school-style first-person shooters take note: Gun Commando, an FPS where aliens — that’s right, aliens — are the bad guys, is scheduled for release to the App Store later this month.  If you long for the days of Duke Nukem, it looks like you’ll want to give Gun …

Twitter has managed to take what was initially a niche service and made it more mainstream than anyone could have imagined.  In 2007, Twitter saw an average of 400 thousand tweets per quarter.  Back in March 2012, that number exploded to 340 million tweets per day.  Just last month, they …

Apple released an update to their Apple Store app yesterday. This new version now supports Siri and the ability to emial Passbook gift cards to friends from within the app. That said, the Passbook features in this app do not appear to be turned on by Apple yet. What’s coolest …

Shortly after Apple began seeding developers with beta builds of iOS 6 earlier this summer, it was discovered that when the final version of iOS 6 reached consumers this fall, it would no longer feature the built-in YouTube app that has been a staple of the OS since the beginning. …

Just last week our very own Jay Roth mentioned that commented on Facebook’s floundering iPhone app. Just as promised, Facebook has released an totally rewritten version of the app, which is considerably faster than its predecessor. This speed increase is brought about by the company’s decision to switch from HTML5-based …

For years Panic Inc, one of the finest purveyors of Mac software, has sold a utility called Candy Bar, which allows users to modify the OS X Dock and icons. Well, starting this week, Candy Bar has been handed off to The Iconfactory and is now a free download. This …

Everything gelled together for me when I read this piece regarding Apple’s promotion of free apps in the App Store. My perfunctory understanding of economics kicked in, and then a realization. Based on current evidence and speculation, it seems that Apple is trying to drive down the cost of apps …

Apple Seeds is iSource’s daily roundup of Apple-related stories for the most diehard of fans, or for the news junkie that has to have all of the day’s news: WWDC Banners Confirm iOS 6 To no one’s surprise, the banners that are just now going up at Moscone West ahead …

  After a lengthy streak as a hater through the 90s, I have been a big Apple fan for several years now, going back before the release of the iPhone. This only increased when the iPhone arrived, and grew even more as the App Store came along a year later …

BGR is reporting that Microsoft plans to launch a version of their venerable Office productivity suite on iOS (and Android)this November. Their source claims that the software is running on an iPad, and has a splash screen referring to the software as “Office for iOS.” The source also claims that …