WIRED.com reports on Volkswagen’s Play the Road app that tailors music to your driving.

To begin with, VW’s boffins enlisted the help of the legendary sonic duo Underworld to help create the sounds, synths, and rhythms to create an ever-evolving soundtrack. Then they used an iPhone’s accelerometer and gyroscope to track the GTI’s maneuvers, followed by cross-referencing it with onboard video and GPS of exactly what the car was doing on the track. After that, they tethered the phone to the car’s on-board computer to get speed and engine revs, then ported it all to the Pure Data musical programming language that creates live sound.

The Next Web reports that the first 5 games for Tencent’s WeChat messaging app has 570 million downloads since August.

Compare it with LINE to better understand what a feat this is. LINE boasts of more than 30 games but only managed to cross the 200 million game download mark in September.

Earlier, Chinese phone manufacturer Xiaomi sold 150,000 of its latest phone in 10 minutes via WeChat. This underlines the size of China’s mobile market.

Angela Ahrendts writes on her LinkedIn blog about the importance of a successful transition.

Because for me Burberry’s true success is measured not by financial growth or brand momentum, but by something much more human: one of the most connected, creative and compassionate cultures in the world today, steeped in common values and beliefs, and united around a shared vision.

This resonates strongly with the culture that Steve Jobs has cultivated in Apple.

To me, search has always been one of Apple’s weak points. Even after taking that into account, it’s always been frustrating that mistyping one letter could mean that you would not find the app that you’re looking for. This is a small step in the right direction, and hopefully search improvements come to Apple Maps too.

Improved App Store Search Engine Now Corrects For Users’ “Fat Finger” Mistakes & Other Misspellings

Though misspellings may represent the long tail of App Store searches, correcting for these queries is an important feature for any search engine to offer, whether app search or otherwise. However, it’s clear that in search, as expected, Google has had the advantage here – it’s nearly 2014, and only now has Apple made this sort of basic feature live.

9to5Mac reports that Apple outsold other phones 3:1..

Kantar World Panel Comtech Japan is reporting that the iPhone 5s and 5c sales gave Apple a 76% share of Japan smartphone sales in October. This is good news for Apple given that the Japanese market is traditionally biased towards local brands.

When Bitcoin reached $700 recently, everybody thought it was crazy, now we’re looking at$1,000. The next question is: Will it continue to rise?

Bitcoin Crosses The $1,000 Mark On The Mt.Gox Exchange

Bitcoin just traded past the $1,000 per coin mark on Mt.Gox, one of its largest exchanges – as we write this, it’s at$1,022, with a high of $1,030 a few moments ago.