Posts Tagged ‘ android ’

OpenFeint announces PlayTime, real-time multiplayer with voice chat for iOS and Android

September 2, 2010
By Mike Schramm
OpenFeint announces PlayTime, real-time multiplayer with voice chat for iOS and Android

Game Center is almost out in consumers' hands, but that hasn't stopped the folks at OpenFeint from pushing forward on their unofficial social network for gamers. PlayTime is a newly-announced feature of the third-party social networking software that w...
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Samsung fires first Android-powered salvo at iPad with Galaxy Tab

September 2, 2010
By Chris Foresman
Samsung fires first Android-powered salvo at iPad with Galaxy Tab

Apple became the biggest fish in the very small touchscreen tablet pond when it launched the iPad this past spring. But more fish will arrive starting mid-month when Samsung launches its Galaxy Tab mobile device in Europe (US...
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OpenFeint Will Soon Offer Cross-Platform Multiplayer Gaming Between Android and iOS Gamers

September 2, 2010
By John Brownlee
OpenFeint Will Soon Offer Cross-Platform Multiplayer Gaming Between Android and iOS Gamers

To their credit, Aurora Feint has always been remarkably blase about iOS 4.1′s built-in Game Center, even though they currently run the business of the App Store’s biggest gaming social network and match-making service, OpenFeint. In fact, ...
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Survey Says iPhone Owners Are Chicken-Eating Girls, Android Owners Are Men Who Smell of Pork

September 2, 2010
By John Brownlee
Survey Says iPhone Owners Are Chicken-Eating Girls, Android Owners Are Men Who Smell of Pork

The findings of a recent survey by Coupons.com has all the trappings of some sort of offensive, stereotypical joke… but without the punchline. Analyzing the findings of how both users on both the Android and iOS operating systems use their websit...
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Acer: “iPad Market Share Will Drop from 100% to 20%”

August 23, 2010
By Federico Viticci
Acer: “iPad Market Share Will Drop from 100% to 20%”

He’s Acer chairman JT Wang, speaking with the Economic Daily News about the iPad market share, and how it will drop from the current 100% (or so) to 20% / 30% because of its “closed” nature and other “open” products that will be released starting this fall.Acer is also the same company which earlier...
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Why Apple’s "walled garden" is a good idea

July 29, 2010
By Steven Sande
Why Apple’s "walled garden" is a good idea

Filed under: iPhone, iPadMany developers and users of Apple's iOS devices bemoan the "walled garden" of the App Store approval process, but it appears that the company's measures have prevented mass data theft from iPhones, and iPads.At the Black Hat...
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Secrets of the Boy Genius

July 29, 2010
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Secrets of the Boy Genius

The once-anonymous blogger is out now, with a logo, a PR agent and plans to build a brand The shadowy figure who calls himself the Boy Genius racked up an impressive run of scoops -- internal AT&T (T) documents, pre-release access to nearly every BlackBerry, some big iPhone exclusives -- in the four years...
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Not great news for Google

July 27, 2010
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Not great news for Google

Even with the record set straight, a Yankee Group survey gives cold comfort My colleagues at CNNMoney can be forgiven, writes the Yankee Group's Carl Howe in a "Setting the record straight" blog post Monday, for getting a statistic wrong in their brief summary of his 3,500 word report "Why iPhones matter." (Available for...
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Keepin’ It Real Fake: iPad meets Mini Me

July 23, 2010
By Michael Rose
Keepin’ It Real Fake: iPad meets Mini Me

Filed under: Odds and endsIt's always a fun moment when a friend comes by to say "Yeah, I just got this Android 7" tablet, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to send it back." Not without letting us take a quick snapshot, you're not! This $199 KIRF tablet...
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iPhone Owners Love the iPhone. Android Owners… Hate Android.

July 23, 2010
By Cody Fink
iPhone Owners Love the iPhone. Android Owners… Hate Android.

Hey, it’s the Yankee Group again! While it’s from the same CNN Money article we’re finding tidbits of information from, we decided to split their statistics into two posts. Quoting 9 to 5 Mac: A telling stat from Yankee Group via CNN: The iPhone is also the gift that keeps on giving: 77% of iPhone owners say...
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