50 billion users can't be wrong

Apple has sold its 50 billionth application through its App Store. The Cupertino-based maker of computers, iPads, iPhones, and iPods, said Apple device users were now downloading 800 applications per second or two billion apps per month. The 50 billionth download was by Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio, who bought wordgame Say the Same Thing by Space Inch, LLC, and received a $10,000 App Store Gift Card for his download. Congratulations, Mr. Ashmore. I hope you get a lot more good luck out of that card. Speaking of good luck, decorated New Zealand director Jane Campion has been presented with the prestigious Carrosse d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Campion was honoured by her peers at the opening of the Directors' Fortnight, following an illustrious list of previous recipients including Clint Eastwood. This is not Australian-based Campion's first win at Cannes - she had also won the coveted Palme d'Or (best film prize) for her 1993 drama The Piano.