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GREE launched Dino Life for Android, which is the first game coming from their recently opened San Francisco studio. Similarly to many other social games, Dino Life too is free to download, bringing players into a prehistoric world where dinosaurs and cavemen live in peaceful co-existence. The official game pitch goes like this (from the…
Next month is going be brutal for technology reporters. Apple is holding their annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 11th, Google is holding their annual I/O event on June 27th, and now Microsoft has just announced the Windows Phone Developer Summit, due to kick off on June 20th. It’ll take place in San Francisco, and…
Samsung has just announced that they’ve sold 2 million Galaxy Notes just 5 months after bringing the product to their home market. To give you an idea of how impressive that is, South Korea is a country that’s home to roughly 49 million people. In other words, 4% of the country decided to spend their…
The BlackBerry form factor, better known as portrait QWERTY, doesn’t get a lot of love these days from handset vendors. Nearly every major device that’s been announced during the past half decade has just a giant slab of glass. What are people who want to use their thumbs going to do? Enter the Huawei M660.…
Blackline TV is doing something pretty unique for a podcast: it’s launching its own iPad magazine. Even more bold, it’s not trapped in the App Store or Newsstand under Apple’s developer terms and conditions. No, instead it’s living freely on the open web as an HTML5 magazine. Blackline is a podcast that specializes in delivering…
Another smartphone is being added to T-Mobile’s lineup soon. The self-branded T-Mobile Prism is an Android smartphone with plenty of features for the average mobile user, yet almost anyone will be able to afford it. The Prism ships with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which has become the de facto operating system for low to mid-range smartphones…
Whispers of Target’s decision to stop selling the Amazon Kindle line of devices made their way around the internet last night. The rumors started when a source close to the matter told The Verge that the Minneapolis-based retailer would stop selling the line due to a “conflict of interest,” presumably due to the fact that Target…
We’re mere hours away from the official introduction of the Samsung Galaxy S III and needless to say, we’re very excited. Samsung has rode the Galaxy lineup to become the largest phone maker in the world and it is one of the few Android handset makers that is actually making some inroads against Apple. Let’s…
Apple just issued updates to four of its popular iOS applications. The new versions include iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband, and Cards. These improvements Apple added to the four iLife applications mostly bring bug fixes and stability. iPhoto version 1.0.1 makes it easier to copy URLs, reduces instances of duplicated photos, and adds stability improvements. iMovie version 1.3.1 adds…
Spotify for the iPad was spotted in the wild earlier this month, and now the music app is available in the iOS App Store. The retina-capable app is perfect for both browsing Spotify’s catalog of music and for searching playlists, artists and users. The app takes full advantage of the iPad’s screen and has a beautiful design that makes it easy to control…