Google mobile operating system Android now has 400 thousand apps. Yes you heard right, Android Market now has 400000 applications, and growing even more daily.

Android Market

There was an announcement that there existed 500 thousand applications at Anroid Market however now new information doesn’t include the ones deleted, that only includes one currently used and available.

Android Applications

In 39 months, since launching, free applications have big role in this achievement. 68% of applications at Anroid Market are free Android applications. At April 2011, when there was 200 thousand android applications, this percent was at 60s. You can see the numbers of Android applications doubled at Android Market in about several months.

Android market has 400 thousand applications

Android always had so much low application number compared to Apple but now it is easily seen that, Android Market is closing the gap between Android applications at Android Market and number of iPhone, iPad, mac applications found at Apple store.

Android Market vs Apple Store

After launch, Apple got to 200 thousand applications in about 22 months but it took Android Market to achieve this in about 31 months. Android, after 4 months later, achieved 300 thousand applications however it took Apple to achieve 300 thousand in about 8 months. The last 100 thousand took Apple’s 7 months. It made Google to wait for about only 4 months to achieve 100 thousand increase, to have 400 thousand android applications in total.

In 2012, Android Market will probably have much more applications compared to Apple Store. If this happens, it won’t be a surprize.

Now Google has 100 thousand active developers in Android Market for developing Android Applications, it was five 1 year ago.

People who buy domains, who own domains. Just be fast. 15 January 2012 is a critical date for you. How? This article is about the domains whose prices will increase.

The most used .com and .net domain names right owner Verisign had a scheduled, planned price increase. After 15 January 2012, Verisign will increase the prices of domain registering.

Firm claimed the reason for this price increase as:

Operational cost increases due to increasing use of internet

The cost to defend versus DDos attacks, the security cost increase

Verisign shared some information to justify the price increase. According to the info they supplied, in the first quarter of 2011, there had been 57 billion daily requests.

In order not to be affected by the raise…

The processes that are among domain tasks like:

• New domain register
• Increase domain contract time
• Domain reg transfer

Therefore, you should do these tasks before 15 January 2012 in order not to be affected by the raise.

Barack Obama is now using instagram. Obama, as day passes, uses social networks more and more. President Obama now using instagram. Well, why he started using instagram?

Social networks are one of the best tools for communicating. Especially trademarks and names use social networks to reach young population.
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Yahoo, who fired their ex-CEO by phone, ended their long CEO searching. PayPal‘s ex-director Scott Thompson, became Yahoo’s new CEO.

Yahoo finally decided his new CEO. Yahoo fired their ex CEO by phone in September 2011. Yes you heard right. After firing him on phone, new Yahoo CEO now is announced: Scott Thompson.

Carol Bartz was fired because of big failure of Yahoo, lately. I think this is due to Google’s huge success. No one so far could compete with Google.

The CFO of firm Tim Morse was temprorarily CEO of Yahoo. He was CEO for four months now he is back to his CFO job since new CEO of Yahoo Scott Thompson is starting the job.

Scott Thompson will start his new job after 9 January 2012. Lets see how it goes for Yahoo with his new CEO in the new year.

In 2012, a highly credible security firm Trend Micro published that Social network sites will be the aim of attacks.

Social networks are now used by almost everyone.Social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Google+ will be under heavy attack according to Raimund Genes.

Social networks, social media sites will be under attack and be threatened. In addition to that, the general problems will be: Mobile technologies, data theft and threatening security.

If you are using, most probably you are, one of these social networks… Just be careful in 2012.