As the smartphone market continues to boom and device owners download an increasing number of applications, app discovery platformAppsFire today announcedthat there have now been more than 1 million apps published to the Apple App Store and Android Market combined. The company is quick to point out that not all of those apps are active (downloadable), with the total number of active applications sitting at around 80%. Of the combined number of apps published to either the App Store or Android Market, iOS accounts for 52% (roughly 520,000 apps) of the million titles published, whether they are active or inactive....

My, my, we have been busy downloading, haven’t we? Apple has just issued apress releasestating that over 1 million apps have been downloaded in the first 24 hours of the Mac App Store’s life. That’s impressive by anyone’s measure. “We’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting,” said Steve Jobs in the release. “Developers have done a great job bringing apps to the store and users are loving how easy and fun the Mac App Store is....

Social media brand monitoring platform,Simplify360, explored the relationship between the number of Facebook fans and engagement level to reveal that on an average, each new post generates 826 likes and 309 comments. The research firm took 50 Facebook fan pages with a random mix of brands from all over the world from consumer brands, to sports teams, to celebrities. The research defines Liking Rate and Commenting Rate as the average ‘likes’ and ‘comments’ a post would generate if the number of fans for the page is normalized to one million....

I don’t know about you, but I get severe anxiety if i’m not online for more than 15 minutes constantly checking my email, Facebook and Twitter so whenDonothingfortwominutes.comcame onto my radar yesterday, it was a real challenge trying to not touch my keyboard for two minutes and I failed miserably. Founded by Alex Tew, the brains behind Million Dollar Home Page- a site that made him a million dollars, in a few months, back in 2005....

As of this week,FastCustomerhas saved its users 220,000 minutes on hold. FastCustomer bills itself as a productivity tool for busy people. TheiOSandAndroidmobile app (Free) will actually call any company’s call center or any department you want and wait on holdfor you. Productivity indeed. The app saves you time and eliminates having to deal with awful elevator music as well as figuring out which department to try and find. On the free iPhone or Android app, just tap a button telling the app which company you need to reach, then go back to living your life....