3 Billion downloads in 18 months. 350 apps downloaded per second.  Impressive.

CUPERTINO, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that more than three billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store by iPhone® and iPod touch® users worldwide.

“Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months-this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”

Source: Gizmodo

According to Rick Whiting of ChannelWeb, Google Chrome has eclipsed Apple’s Safari browser to become the world’s third most popular Web browser.  Chrome, which has been around just a little more than one year, accounted for 4.63 percent of browser usage in December, compared to Apple Safari usage of only 4.46 percent last month.  Recently Google launched extensions for Chrome adding to the popular of the speedy browser.