Apple's App Store celebrates 40 Billion downloads following record December

What did everyone who got a new iPhone and iPad do over the holidays? Download a ton of Apps, 2 Billion to be exact, which pushes to running total to 40,000,000,000 apps downloaded.

Apple said customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps, with nearly 20 billion in 2012 alone. The App Store has over 500 million active accounts and had a record-breaking December with over two billion downloads during the month.

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CES 2013: Hapilabs debuts connected fork for a healthier lifestyle

Fitness technology has been gaining momentun and a number of products make their first appearance at CES in Las Vegas. This year, we're seeing HAPILABS introduce a connected fork that helps users track various aspects of their eating habits when it ties in to an online tool. Quirky? Unusual? Hit jump to see more details of the HAPIfork.

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CES 2013: New SuperSpeed USB 3.0 boasts 10 Gbps data rate

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced development of a SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) enhancement that will add a much higher data rate of 10Gbps, delivering up to twice the data through-put performance of existing SuperSpeed USB over enhanced, fully backward compatible USB connectors and cables. This supplement to the USB 3.0 specification is anticipated to be completed by the middle of this year.

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CES 2013: NVIDIA's launches Project Shield handheld gaming platform

NVIDIA is throwing down the gauntlet in handheld gaming with its fierce new platform that's sure to shake the status quo of this lacklustre segment. Dubbed 'Project Shield', this new open platform will be using the kick ass new Tegra 4 chip (see below) and will interface with the Tegra Zone and Android Play stores for games and has the added advantage of linking up wirelessly with PC STEAM games provided your desktop is running compatible NVIDIA GPU.

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