After the record hardware sales recorded during the Christmas period, an analysis by Flurry confirms that the number of downloads of the app store on the two main (App Store - Android Market) has exceeded the most optimistic expectations.

Some developers say they have succeeded in creating a hack, but still at the preliminary stage with which it can start applications for iPhone OS on Apple TV. The team that created the hack provides a launcher and shown the actual functionality by launching Angry Birds, Cydia, Facebook, Safari and YouTube.

Apple lawyers said they intend to appeal against a fine of $ 1.17 million, which took the Department for Protection of Market Competition in Italy, according to The Register with reference to the representatives of Apple.

The long-awaited iPhone 4S helped Apple to get a considerable share of the market in the U.S. and the UK, but in Europe the new product by Apple is noticeably losing its way. According to Reuters.

Pod2G whose name is (or rather nickname) connected to all the latest news about the jailbreak iOS unattached 5 posted another video in the network. It shows the iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak with unattached.

December 9th Court of Australia took a preliminary injunction against the sale of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the country, imposed earlier on the suit Apple to Samsung. Thus in Australia the iPad again appeared fairly strong competitor.

France rejected the demand for Samsung to block sales of the iPhone 4S. Samsung ordered to pay 100,000 euros in favor of Apple. Similar proceedings underway in Italy, Australia and Japan.

Today Skype releases new versions 5.4 of Mac and 5.7 for Windows, both are in beta but lead to a higher level integration between VoIP and social networking. Now you can make video calls on Facebook Skype for video chat with users who don't have Skype installed.

The new Kindle Fire and iPad 2 are compared in a YouTube video showing the superiority of Apple's tablet at startup and web browsing in general cleaning and the speed of the interface. The Fire of Amazon offered to 200 dollars less than half of iPad 2 and is not designed to compete with the top of the line Apple.

Sony is planning to create an Internet TV in the U.S. to offer the traditional broadcast channels via satellite and cable. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Japanese giant has already had talks with NBC. Sony could break into the pay TV sector with an offer with less channels, cheaper available on PS3, BD players, connected TVs.

Researchers at Core Security Technologies Group have identified a vulnerability in the implementation of "sandboxing" in OS X. This technology we recall protects the system by limiting the types of operations that an application can perform, such as opening a document or access the network.

Instagram is one of the most well-known and successful in the App Store applications and one of the most important social networks to sharing pictures, but apparently they want to continue expanding and offering new services, as its CEO Kevin Systrom has stated that Instagram future upgrades video support.

Google has promised continued support to manufacturers of smartphones running Android in patent disputes with the corporation Apple, which occur every year more and more, according to Reuters. This happened during a three day Asian tour of Chairman Board of Directors of Google Eric Schmidt, during which he met with the heads of the companies major smartphone manufacturers based on Android.

Apple has released IOS 5.0.1 for iPhone, IPad, and IPod Touch. The next firmware update includes improvements and bug fixes and in particular solves the problem with the battery, adds multitasking gestures for the iPad 1, contains bug fixes in iCloud, and significantly improves the function of Siri for users from Australia.

The struggle between the mobile operating systems is more fierce than ever. Fortune has published an interesting entry with the results of two websites specialized in tracking the different accesses to the web, StatCounter and Net Applications. According to both companies, the presence of mobile devices from Apple on the Web has increased by 33.6% since July, but the conclusions they draw are both quite different.