Apple just announced that the Mac App Store will open on Jan 6. Following the success of the iOS app store in iTunes, the Mac App store, which was announced back in October during the revealing of OS X Lion, will hope to match the success on the desktop. For once we won’t be left behind as the Mac App store will be available in 90 countries on launch day.

Let’s hope developers, who will get 70% of the sales revenue, will hop onto the Mac App store and deliver more Mac apps to us come Jan 6.

Read the press release here from Apple.

Remember sometime back we reviewed the WorldCard Mobile iPhone app -

To start, you just need to snap a photo of the namecard, or retrieved photos of cards taken earlier. Then just let the app works its magic. The character recognition on the WorldCard mobile app is quite impressive. I’ve tried two cards so far and have gotten 90% success rates! The only misspelling I’ve seen was mistaking a “l” for an “i”. While checking the correctness of the scanned data, you can even go back to the image, and manually select the area to tag to the correct data. Once that is done, you can save it in your iPhone as a new entry, or to append to an existing entry.

Well those guys at PenPower Inc has just updated the WorldCard Mobile app to be iOS4 compatible and also with the following features:
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