The Top iPhone & iPad Downloads of All Tim

Apple reveals which free and paid apps have been downloaded the most for the iPhone and iPad.

In advance of that big announcement, Apple has released a list of the top ten most downloaded apps on both devices in the paid and free category.

Entertainment titles dominated the paid apps for iPhone, but the top ten free apps were more varied. The most popular free apps include such familiar titles as Facebook, the Weather Channel, Pandora Radio, Skype, Google Earth and Google Mobile. On the paid side, the list includes the mega-popular Angry Birds and Tap, Tap Revenge along with Bejeweled 2 + Blitz, Doodle Jump and Flight Control. The only non-game on the paid list was the 'AppBox Pro-Alarm Clock, Wallet, Mirror, Flashlight and more' utility app.

On the iPad the results were far less game heavy. The top paid iPad list includes two $4.99 titles: the SoundHound music app and the Flight Track flight tracking application.

Raven Zachary, a well-known consultant to mobile developers, comments on surprises in the top app breakout and what Apple needs to do next. Datamation has the story. 

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Third Of UK Surfers Victim of PC Viruses

Over 30 per cent of Brits fell victim to viruses at the end of 2010, despite having security software.

Figures from Eurostat found that 31 per cent of surfers caught a virus or other computer infection in the last three months of 2010, with seven per cent suffering financial loss as a result, despite 88 per cent of victims saying they had security software installed.

The UK was by no means the worst country in Europe with a virus problem, though. The Report released to coincide with Internet Safety Day, found that people living in Bulgaria (58 per cent), Malta (50 per cent) and Slovakia (47 per cent) had the most victims. Austria had the lowest at 14 per cent.

Despite the UK having one of the lowest virus rates, it was one of the countries most attacked by phishing, with seven per cent of surfers having their card fradulently used or being duped into handing over money to scammers.

The survey looked at 200,000 computer users across 27 countries in the European Union.

Attacks on mobile phones rose by 46 per cent in the same period, according to reports by McAfee. However, only 947 viruses were actually detected, which is a relatively small amount considering that 100.9 million smartphones were sold worldwide in the last quarter of 2010.

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