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Valve’s Portal has blown some minds in its day. The 2007 cult favorite and its 2011 sequel featured reality bending gameplay that would leave your brain as warped as the portals you’d jumped through. Now a new homebrew project out on the Nintendo DS might just blow your mind again. Aperture Science DS is a…
Under CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s been gobbling up startups like an Aardvark at an anthill. Leveraging its massive war chest, the company’s current strategy appears to be buying everything it needs to recover its former greatness. While the outcome of this strategy remains to be seen, Yahoo appears to have big plans. Most recently, Yahoo…
Earlier this year, we attended a super secret PopCap Games event in New York City to see some of their upcoming titles, one of which was a very early version of Plants vs. Zombies running on a Nexus One. Well, Android users – it looks like your day has finally come for some PopCap Games…
Although most smartphones have dedicated mail apps which support Gmail, Google isn’t letting its mobile web app fall to shambles. The mobile web version of Gmail continues to get updates, and this time Google introduced an “undo” action for when you make mistakes. Let’s say you accidentally delete or archive a conversation thread and didn’t…
As announced in October, Google shuttered its GOOG-411 service today. The free, voice-driven, directory assistance service emerged from Google Labs back in April 2007. Customers on a mobile phone could call 1-800-GOOG-411 and use their voice to easily find addresses, phone numbers, and more courtesy of Google. Over the years, Google used this voice-based directory assistance…
For all the time and money that goes into advertising for big brands, they sure are falling short of making the mobile experience for the products and services a pleasant one. As a matter of fact, of 781 adults surveyed online, 38% of them said that they weren’t terribly happy with branded mobile apps. Perhaps…
HTC has spiced up its Android handset offering by adding that sexy Sense UI, but not it’s going a little further with HTCSense.com. The new site is a little portal that works sort of like MobileMe for your iPhone. HTC users can now register for the service and get all the benefits from the new…
Yahoo made a series of improvements to its search engine today and those have trickled down to its mobile search products. I’ve played with the new Yahoo mobile search and I think it’s actually cool. If you don’t know, Microsoft’s Bing is actually doing the heavy lifting on the back end for the searches but…
AOL and Google are at it again as the two Internet giants have announced the renewal of their partnership for another five years. The deal entails Google’s search services being integrated with AOL content networks and properties. Of course, there will be shared revenue between the two and the expansion part comes into the mobile…
The Apple iPhone may finally be getting Adobe Flash, although not through the conventional manner. Skyfire has submitted its Flash-capable browser to the App Store and it has a good shot at getting approved. Apple doesn’t allow programs in the App Store which “duplicate functionality” or minimum functionality,” so a browser wouldn’t seem like it…