
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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Tags: android, casual, core, exit-games, game, gaming, ios, iphone, multiplayer, openfeint, playtime, realtime, voice-chat
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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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Tags: 3g, android, ereader, froyo, gadgets, galaxytab, hardware, mobile, news, Samsung, tablet
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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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Tags: android, aurora feint, game center, games, gaming, ios, news, open feint
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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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Tags: android, coupons.com, humor, ios, iphone, news, survey, surveys, weird
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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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Tags: android, DigiTimes, ipad, market, tablet
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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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Tags: android, app store, AppStore, Black hat, BlackHat, data security, data theft, DataSecurity, DataTheft, Google, ios, ipad, iphone, Security
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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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Tags: android, apple, Apple 2.0, BGR, Boy Genius, Google, Jonathan Geller, Mail.com, microsoft, RIM
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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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Tags: android, apple, Apple 2.0, Carl Howe, CNNMoney, Google, iphone, Yankee Group
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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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Tags: android, fake, ipad, KeepinItRealFake, kirf
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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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Tags: android, iphone, news
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