Last week, we reported that Nokia was on the verge of opening their own “App Store” to rival Apple’s, but that no date was set.
Today, the Ovi Store has been officially launched by the handset maker, with a launch date set for early May.
The store will merge Nokia’s current Download!, MOSH and WidSets services into one platform that will allow users to buy applications, utilities and games to their S40- and S60-based phones. The platform will also include video and podcast downloads, as well as wallpapers and widgets.
Something to note about the service is its strong emphasis on “location-based content.” Media will be highlighted and featured based on the person’s current location and if given permission, the store “will also be able to flag items downloaded by peers in a person’s social network.”
The first handset to have support for the store preloaded is the upcoming N97 coming in June, but the company adds those with existing devices will be given access as well through updates.
Result for: peers
The infamous public torrent tracker The Pirate Bay has released some statistics this week that gives more insight into the location of its users.
One of the most surprising stats (full chart available after the story) is that over one-third of the Pirate Bay’s traffic comes from China, where the government has banned the site. Japan and Spain generated the next highest traffic followed by the US.
Making China’s numbers even more shocking is that China only accounts for one-sixth of the world’s internet users. Japan, on the other hand, makes up 6.7 percent of Pirate Bay traffic while accounting for 6.2 percent of total Internet users.
In November, the site announced that they had smashed a new milestone, 25 million unique peers. It has been estimated that the site tracks over 50 percent of all BitTorrent users that are on at any point.
Full chart here:
Result for: peers
The infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay has smashed through another new milestone, reaching 25 million unique peers. It has been estimated that the site tracks over 50 percent of all BitTorrent users that are on at any point.
In 2006 the site tracked 3 million peers which moved up to 6 million peers by November 2007. In April of this year, TPB admin and founder Brokep noted that they had hit 12 million peers. The growth has been exponential and does not seem to be slowing down anytime soon.
Admin Peter Sunde added that there was previously limits on how many peers the site could track but those have been lifted thanks to new changes. “I wish we had lots and lots of money so we could just buy like 10 servers and another gigabit,” he jokingly added.
Just earlier this month the site hit 20 million peers and has been exploding ever since.
