Screenlife, the folks behind the popular entertainment trivia game Scene It?, is launching Scene It? Harry Potter app for iPhone and iPod Touch and HD version for iPad, featuring content from the first six films. Included in the game are 30 quiz sets with 16 different puzzle types and mini-games (such as Hagrid’s Hut, Polyjuice…
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case-mate teams-up with industrial designer Erik Arlen to launch a new line of cases
Like it already doesn’t have a full portfolio of different cases, case-mate is teaming-up with modern industrial designer Erik Arlen to create an “edgy new line of mobile tech cases.” Arlen, who also designed for Nike, adds bold colors, textures and modular pieces to the case-mate’s offering. More precisely, the two parties unveiled four distinctive…
2010 Mobile Marketing Association Global Mobile Marketing Award winners announced
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) announced the winners of its Sixth Annual Global Mobile Marketing Awards during the Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony at the Mobile Marketing Forum in Los Angeles. Winners are selected by the MMA Awards Selection Committee comprised of global industry leaders from wireless carriers, technology and content providers, agencies and industry…
60 MINUTES gets a dedicated iPad app
60 MINUTES, which in case you don’t know is America’s number one news program, is now available on the iPad. According to the press release, this is the first time a primetime news magazine has its own stand-alone application for the hand-held device. As one would expect, the 60 MINUTES iPad app delivers high-quality video…
Defender Chronicles now an iPad thing, too
Chillingo announced that the popular tower-defense RPG game, Defender Chronicles, is no longer an iPhone/iPod Touch thing, only. Owners of Apple’s tablet can now play the real HD version which of course takes advantage of iPad’s large screen. As you may know from the original iPhone title, there over 20 different types of units to…
FCC wants to let Americans send a text to 911 in case of an emergency
Kids these days can send out a text message without even taking their mobile phone out of their pocket. They’ve invested the time and effort at memorizing the keys, so why not let them, along with everyone else in America, be able to contact 911 with a simple SMS? That’s exactly what the FCC is…
Acer likely to announce a 7 inch Android 2.2 tablet and 10 inch Windows 7 tablet today in New York
Acer is scheduled to have a press conference in New York today and according to Taiwanese rumor site Digitimes they’re going to reveal a 10 inch Windows 7 tablet and a smaller 7 inch Android 2.2 tablet. Samsung, with their consumer polarizing Galaxy Tab, is finally going to get some competition, but we’ve got to…
Awesomely Delicious: The iPhone Birthday Cake
If you’re an app developer, an iPhone lover, or simply an Apple fanboy (or fangirl), I have a feeling you’re going to approve of the iPhone birthday cake pictured above. Am I right, or am I right? What you see here is the handy work of one very dedicated (and awesome) wife. Chris Samuels, an…
Verizon asking Congress to rewrite telecommunication laws for the 21st century
Tom Tauke, Verizon’s Executive Vice President of Public Affairs, Policy and Communications, in a panel discussion titled “Rewriting the Telecom Act: Has the Time Come?” at the Federalist Society’s National Conference in Washington that place on November 20th, called out the FCC and Congress and said that their policies are ancient and that they need…
Multiple Twitter reports of people saying Android 2.3 Gingerbread now available on the Google Nexus One
Do a search for “Gingerbread” on Twitter and prepare to be jealous at the mass of people who are reporting that Google just pushed an update to their Nexus One with the latest version of the Android operating system. We’ve written about Gingerbread before, many times, but here’s pretty much all you need to know…