When I first saw Jetpack Joyride a few weeks back, it was still being called Machine Gun Jetpack. It was after my demo of Fruit Ninja Kinect–also made by Australian dev studio Halfbrick–that I saw a quick run-through of the still-brewing iOS game. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it in the months that have passed.
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Back in February of 2010, Google announced that it was giving up on Google Gears, its neat-but-ultimately-unsatisfying technology that helped make Web services work even when the Web wasn’t available. The company said that it made more sense to concentrate on using HTML5 technologies to build offline capabilities into its Web apps. And …
Extra! Extra! Both CNBC and Mashable are reporting that Facebook plans to launch a music service next month. Nothing is for absolutely certain, but it’s been said that Spotify, MOG and Rdio might be partnering with Facebook as part of the new feature. Mark Zuckerberg is probably jamming out to this tune if it’s true. Wonder what Facebook …
Amazon’s apparently not in a huge rush to send a 10-inch tablet to market. Anonymous sources tell DigiTimes that Amazon’s first tablet will be a 7-inch model, and that mass production on a true iPad rival with a 10.1-inch display will begin in the first quarter of 2012.
If the rumor’s accurate, it would mean that Amazon is first setting
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Apple, Apple, Apple… did we learn nothing from the lost iPhone 4 fiasco? Yet another Apple employee “appears to have lost an unreleased iPhone in a bar,” according to CNET, who cites an unnamed source.
Here’s more:
“A day or two after the phone was lost at San Francisco’s Cava 22, which describes itself as a ‘tequila lounge’ that
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Sony is officially the latest to join the legion of Android tablets as they attempt to chip away at Apple’s market share. The new “Sony Tablet S” is available for preorder today, with shipments expected in the middle of next month.
Starting at $500 for the 16-gigabyte version, Sony finds itself engaging in the dangerous game of trying …
Is Yahoo about to buy the New York Times Company?
The unexpected rumor has appeared online via a three sentence story on Business Insider‘s website, referencing a tweet from Benzinga.com, which claims to bring readers “business news before it’s news.”
(MORE: Yahoo, Facebook Want to Find Out if It’s a ‘Small World’ After All)
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Android owners, strap yourselves in! (Especially if you’re a fan of artificially-applied Lomo filters!)
Instagram, that wildly popular iPhone photosharing app that’s now been downloaded over eight million times, will in fact be coming to Android-powered devices, as confirmed by the company’s CEO in an interview with The …
Don’t get me wrong: I hate my iPhone. I only got one after I accidentally left my Droid on a bus. So I’m not coming to you as a wide-eyed enthusiast, the sort who thinks everything that Apple makes is pure gold. I don’t play Angry Birds, I don’t have a set of bejeweled Hello Kitty cases, and every day I think wistfully of the BlackBerry …
Move over, Netflix, there might be another streaming video-on-demand company angling for your crown.
Lovefilm, the European version of Netflix that was purchased by Amazon at the start of the year, is rumored to be close to launching in new international territories, according to a recent interview with the company’s Chief Marketing …
Updated at 11:53am Eastern with Justice Department press release and statement from AT&T…
The Justice Department has filed an antitrust complaint against AT&T in the hopes of preventing the $39 million T-Mobile-AT&T merger proposed earlier this year.
The filing states that, “AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, …
It sounds like something from an adrenaline-pumping spy thriller. You know, like Spy Kids 3-D.
A new study from researchers at the University of California, San Diego, posits that thermal imaging cameras can be used to capture the residual heat left over from freshly pressed ATM keys. This strategy in particular holds one pretty …
