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EA Acquires Publisher Chillingo of Angry Birds Fame
It looks like Electronic Arts just slingshot an angry red bird across the landscape and toppled the obstacles between them and Chillingo. I refer, of course, to the extremely famous mobile phone game Angry Birds, a casual puzzle game that involves the flinging of enraged ballistic avians at all manner of fortification and fauna. It ...
Steve Jobs Continues to Take Fire: Jim Balsillie of RIM Joins In
While Steve Jobs was making critical comments about Android yesterday, he also took a swing at plans for 7-inch tablet PCs. Announcing with broad strokes that they both wouldn’t make it to market, but that they were bad for the app ecology, mentioning that 7-inches was too small to create effective tablet apps. Saying of ...
Xbox.com Gets a Facelift: Additional Features, Enhanced Experience
People who might have attempted to access Xbox.com extremely early this morning would have been greeted with a downtime message. The web page had been taken offline for a short time at 5am EST for its facelift—the Xbox Live service remained unaffected and gamers continued gaming through the wee hours. Now that it’s back, we ...
Mozilla Labs Details Open Web Applications for Chrome Have-Nots
Mozilla intends to bring to the web what apps brought to the mobile sphere with Open Web Apps—but they also seem to be doing it in response to Google’s announcement that they would open their own Chrome Web Store. They intend to generate a vast architecture for the development, storage, distribution, and social interaction of ...
All a Twitter: Android Chief Jabs at Steve Jobs, TweetDeck Joins the Fray
Andy Rubin’s long-dormant Twitter account just came to life today, and with it came one of the most geeky snipes I have ever read. His first tweet, the definition of open: “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init –u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make” Reported by CNET, Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple ...
Verizon Entering Tiered Data Plan Market with $15 Capped Data Subscription
The addition of a less costly subscription plan for Internet use by smartphone users by Verizon is likely a response to AT&T’s own similar move. With the explosion of handsets that use the Internet as a matter of course and the recession in the economy, many users have been eschewing upgrades to their phone in ...
Microsoft Ascending Into the Cloud with Office 365
Microsoft Corp is making a move against Google in the cloud-based office product department by moving away from their usual hybrid on-machine/on-web apps (e.g. Outlook vs Outlook Web) by making the jump with Office 365. The software giant has already started accepting applications for their new product’s beta today, and expect to ship internationally in ...
Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Resigns
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer got on the computer today to type out an e-mail stating that the software giant’s current Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, Is stepping down. According to an article at paidContent.org he’s doing so shortly after some of the projects he oversaw were rolled into Bing. He appears to have had a ...
Pandora Extending Mobile Advertising for Business
Pandora, the personalized online radio experience, is opening up their advertisement platform to aid regional and small businesses in their marketing. By delivering advertisements to their mobile music app based on the location of the phone, it will mean that listeners will be hearing advertisements relevant to their locale. Over half of the daily listening ...
Developers, Aurora Feint Hesitant About Windows Phone 7 Adoption
The much-awaited Windows Phone 7 launched last week amid promises that their app market will be far more exclusive than either iPhone or Android. The phones are looking like an excellent gaming platform with brilliant graphics capability and a powerful OS, but social game developer Aurora Feint remains wary of jumping on board. The game ...