Apple's App hits 1.5 Billion Downloads

The iTunes App Store has hit 1.5 billion downloads, the company announced Tuesday.

The milestone comes three months after iTunes hit the 1 billion mark, and just after Saturday's one-year anniversary of the popular mobile app store.

"The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality," Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs said in a statement. "With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up."

At present, the App Store offers more than 65,000 apps in 77 countries. The success of the store, fueled by the more than 40 million iPhones and iPod Touches that have shipped thus far, has led a number of prominent tech companies to launch their own mobile stores, including Research in Motion, Microsoft, Google, and Nokia. LG and Verizon also have stores inthe works.

Tablet from Apple by Christmas this year

A report from The China Times said Apple would release an $800 tablet computer in time for Christmas, pushing the Apple rumor mill into overdrive again.

Rumors and speculation regarding Apple’s future computer production plans surfaced again this week when The China Times reported that Apple would be debuting a tablet-style computer as early as October and would retail for around $800. Adding to the speculation is an earlier report from The Wall Street Journal that Apple is investing significantly to manufacture its own processing chips, including hiring former chief technology officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Raja Koduri.

In addition, Apple acquired fabless semiconductor company P.A. Semi, which produced only Power Architecture processors (Apple uses ARM and x86 processors). However, the acquisition kicked off a fresh spate of rumors that the company would be used to help Apple design a new set of chips for the iPhone or perhaps another device. The blog VentureBeat reported, however, that the P.A. Semi team had been split into two groups, with one group working on portable ARM processors for iPhones and iPods and another group dedicated to designing processors for a tablet device.

Microsoft office users attacked!!

Microsoft Corp warned that cybercriminals have attacked users of its Office software for Windows PCs, exploiting a programing flaw that the software giant has yet to repair.

The world's largest software maker issued the warning on Tuesday as it released patches to address nine other security holes in its software.

"Despite today's fixes, Windows users continue to be under attack. Microsoft is taking two steps forward, while attackers are putting it one step back," said Dave Marcus, McAfee Inc's Avert Labs director of security research.

Hackers booby-trap websites with malicious code that loads onto computers running the vulnerable Office software. Infected PCs are commandeered into a botnet, a network of hijacked computers. They are used for identity theft, spamming and other cybercrimes.

Microsoft did not say how many machines were attacked. It estimates that some 500 million people use its Office suite, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint software.

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