Samsungs mobile and TV app store Samsung Apps has passed 10 Million downloads in Europe, the manufacturer announced today. Samsung Apps, which was launched in September 2009 in countries including the UK, France, Germany and Italy, is now available in 109 markets worldwide, including 34 countries across Europe. However, the manufacturer is still some way behind Apple. In January this year, Apple announced that three billion applications had been downloaded for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Samsung is now planning to drive the creation of more ‘locally-customised applications’. It will also integrate relevant local information, designed to ‘reflect cultural characteristics and provide a more enriching, tailored service’ to users globally. Samsung said it will continue to drive Samsung Apps by introducing further bada-powered devices, following the Samsung Wave, the first smartphone based on Samsung’s own bada platform.

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Transit riders in New York and New Jersey can now pay their fare by simply holding their Visa payWave-enabled mobile phone near the designated reader at the fare gate.

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In 2011, Nokia Push will be collaborating with the world’s biggest snowboarding company, Burton Snowboards, to create a new type of connected snowboarding. Work has already started between Nokia and Burton, and the collaboration will be run in the spirit of the Push project – transparently, and openly in beta. Throughout this time, regular videos will be published here detailing our progress so far, and counting down to our beta launch at next year’s Burton Euro Open in January.

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