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Some of you may have heard of Call of Duty: Black Ops, a first-person shooter video game that has broken records across a number of entertainment sectors by selling $650 million-worth of units in the first five days of release alone. I’ve been slowly but steadily losing my soul to the game on PC, and…
It looks like shoppers were turning to their smartphones this holiday shopping season, as PayPal said mobile shopping grew 310% on Black Friday. PayPal, which has multiple mobile apps for all the major smartphone platforms, also said it saw a 27% increase in total payment volumes on Black Friday. PayPal has said that it expects…
Back in early October, we reported that EA Mobile’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit would be hitting the App Store “soon.” The one thing I’ve been enjoying about covering mobile games is when a company says they’re releasing one of their titles soon, they really do mean soon. In the case of Need for Speed:…
Many of us believe that the Apple iPad and tablets will soon eat into the PC sales market but now Gartner has some numbers to back this up. While the Apple iPad and tablets aren’t going to immediately replace your next PC but it will have an impact on the margins. Full-fledged computers aren’t going…
Maybe I’m not looking hard enough, but generally I’m not too impressed with the Cyber Monday sales that are available. The discounts seem so insignificant, and in some cases, completely non-existent. Telus, however, is going all-out and offering some really good deals today. LG IQ – $0 with a 1-year contract Nokia E71 in red…
To help us officially celebrate the start of the holiday shopping season, Sprint is literally giving away a BlackBerry Style flip-phone for free. When you buy one of the new BlackBerry flip-phones for $99.99 (with new 2-year contract), Sprint will hook you up with another BlackBerry Style for no additional charge. Two-for-one, buy-one-get-one, BOGO, “twofer,”…
A neat concept for a BlackBerry phone called Empathy has been cooked up by designer Daniel Yoon, focusing on sharing our mood with friends. It’s a bit of a throwback to the early LiveJournal and MySpace days, which were all about updating mood statuses, but there are some interesting twists on old ideas here. The…
Samsung’s upcoming Nexus S is one of the worst kept secrets in Android device history. With the CEO of Google Eric Schmidt showing it off at the Web 2.0 Summit earlier this month, plus the barrage of images that have leaked not only showing off every angle of the device, but the upcoming Android 2.3…
A recent survey of 269 students from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania has turned up some results that you and I might not find too surprising, but will probably send parents up the wall. Roughly nine in ten students admitted to sending text messages during class and half of those say it’s incredibly easy to do…
Nokia’s Beta Labs has released an intriguing new program called “Situations” that bills itself as a semi artificial intelligent way of managing your mobile phone based around multiple variables such as the time of day and your present location. Say for instance that you and your girlfriend always see a movie every Wednesday night at…