Year: 2010

Apple number two on 12th Annual Tech 100 List

Apple places second on the 12th Annual Tech 100 List (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/special_reports/20100520tech_100.htm) by “Bloomberg Businessweek,” which ranks the top performing companies in the tech industry.

BYD — a Chinese maker of cars, batteries, electronics, and solar power equipment — earns the No. 1 spot on the list. Following Apple in the Top 10 are: Tencent Holdings, Amazon, Tata Consultancy, Priceline.com, CenturyLink, Cognizant Technology, Infosys Tech and Softbank.

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iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for May 20

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (ttp://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Frame Studios S.r.l. has announced Springboard Circus 1.0 for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. The application is the first iDevice game created by a long-standing Nintendo and XBLA/PSN developer. The US$1.99 game features a little clown who bounces around, trying to get to the top. It’s your job to quickly draw a line on the screen with their finger, which provides the clown with a trampoline to jump up to the next object on the screen.

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‘Rotten Tomatoes’ grow on the iTunes Store

The iTunes movie store now features reviews and the “Tomatometer” rating score from “Rotten Tomatoes” (http://www.rottentomatoes.com) displayed above customer reviews on every movie page.

It sports excerpts from four reviews from top critics, and a link to the full review at the “Rotten Tomatoes” web site. You can can see the overall Tomatometer (an average of all scores), the number of reviews and the ratio of “Fresh” to “Rotten” reviews.

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