Apple’s Mac App Store has 100m reasons to be ‘appy

The appetite of Apple’s Mac App Store users knows no bounds, with now over 100 million Mac apps having been downloaded “in less than one year”, according to Apple’s ‘appy announcement.
 

eBay adds Android to mobile app lineup

eBay Australia and New Zealand's application for Android handsets is now available from the Android Market.
 

Microsoft, HP betting $US250 million on IT simplification partnership

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have announced a $US250 million investment in their new 'infrastructure to application' model aimed at simplifying IT in small to big businesses.
 

Nokia to developers: show us your apps

Nokia has set out on a million-dollar hunt for mobile applications aimed at customers on very low incomes.
 

Zoho extends Google links

Cloud applications provider Zoho has stepped up its integration with Google Apps.
 

App performance issues plague Aussie business

Just over 57 percent of Australian businesses and organisations experience more than one application performance issue every week, with 11.5 percent of them experiencing ‘almost constant’ issues with their IT systems.
 

Mater pushes health IT

Queensland's Mater Health Services is a pace-setter when it comes to the application of IT within hospitals.
 

BlackBerry users get first dibs at iDumpit clearance outlet

A new application for the BlackBerry Storm and Curve 8900 gives users preferential shopping at a clearance outlet.
 

DB2 the go for SAP, crows IBM

IBM claims "hundreds" of SAP users are getting better performance at lower cost by adopting DB2 in place of Oracle Database.
 

Twitter orders app developer to cease and desist

People have got used to Apple telling iPhone app developers to get stuffed, but now Twitter is beating some third party app developers with a big legal stick.