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It’s been over a year since Apple announced it would be delivering its own gaming network on iOS called Game Center and today, Apple announced the service has over 67 million users on it. Seeing as how popular the service has been among iOS gamers, Apple will be making some new additions to the service when…
During today’s Apple event announcing the iPhone 4S, Epic Games’ Mike Capps took the stage to announce the sequel to one of the greatest iOS games to date: Infinity Blade 2. Infinity Blade 2 will improve on the original with breathtaking visuals, new locations, rewards, treasures, and will take players deeper into the its mysterious…
One of the fluffier bits to come out of the Apple event today was a new app called Cards. It lets you make greeting cards on an iPhone, and Apple will ship it anywhere in the U.S. for $2.99, or $4.99 outside of the U.S. Push notifications are included in the app, so you know…
You can tell a lot about a person by the domain name attached to their email address. If it ends with @aol.com, chances are the poor soul using that email account doesn’t know the difference between the power button on their laptop and their asshole. If it’s yahoo.com, run away fast because it’s an old…
Today at Adobe MAX 2011 a new suite of touch optimized applications was announced that will soon be available for both Android tablets and the iPad. The set of six applications will launch on Android next month and we can expect an announcement about the availability of the iPad applications sometime in early 2012. We guess…
You might remember that there was talk awhile back about RIM’s well-known instant-messaging client, BBM, would be making its way to Android and eventually iOS. The first signs of such an app have just surfaced, showing the standard BlackBerry Messenger profile page, but not much else. The app icon doesn’t look great right now, but…
We have great news for you Foursquare for Android users out there. The location-based social networking app recently received a pretty cool update with the Lists feature to help share and discover collections of places, among a few other smaller tweaks. This news follows the company’s recent announcement of achieving a huge milestone, passing a cool one…
The upcoming launch of iOS 5 will bring integrated Twitter experience, potentially flooding the social network’s servers. Twitter on its end did all the work to make sure that doesn’t happen so that all those new iOS users have an awesome experience. According to Twitter’s engineering VP Michael Abbott, they have been beefing up servers…
Distimo released a new report, this time focusing on global differences in content distribution, including content localization (local apps that are published in one country only), and differentiated user preferences around the world. Without further ado, here are the major findings: Consumers around the world have very different preferences for apps. Globally, an average of…
As part of his online initiative #PuffPuffPassTuesdays, Snoop Dogg launched the Snoop Pack on the mobile social video application – Viddy. Using the new tool, Viddy users can easily add effects layer and soundtrack on their videos, using nothing but their iPhone. Custom-crafted for Snoop Dogg by the team at Viddy, the Snoop Pack features…