Apple has been granted a patent on the cool page turning animation that you see when reading e-books on the company's gadgets. The patent is called "Display screen of portion thereof animated graphical user interface" and was one of 38 patents issued Apple recently. continued »

Analytics firm Flurry reports that between iOS devices and Android the week of Christmas there were 1.2 billion apps downloaded. That over a billion downloads a week mark is expected to come several times in 2012. continued »