Archive for January, 2011

Accumulate Rebrands to Flexion

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | Comments Off

Accumulate UK Limited, the company behind the Flexion wrapper technology and platform has announced it will rebrand it’s organization to Flexion as it is their most successful and important product.

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Android 3.0 Compatible with Smartphones

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | Comments Off

While the general understanding is that Android 2.4 will be the next smartphone OS and Android 3.0 will focus on Tablet releases, it turns out the Android 3.0 SDK does have smartphone features on board.

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Microsoft Sold 2 Million Windows Phone 7 Licenses

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | Comments Off

Microsoft has announced that it has sold 2 million Windows Phone 7 licenses to device vendors. This news follows on the announcement that 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 devices have been sold in the first two months after launch.

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Google Launches Honeycomb This Wednesday

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | Comments Off

Last Friday, Google has sent out invites to journalists for its Android Honeycomb launch event coming Wednesday. The event will be taking place at its headquarters .

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Rovio and 20th Century Fox Team up For Angry Birds Rio

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | Comments Off

While a big part of the fans is eagerly awaiting the valentine edition of Angry Birds, the studio is already preparing a new iteration of the Angry Birds series called Angry Birds Rio.

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Security Flaw in Android 2.3’s Micro SD Access

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | Comments Off

North Carolina State University’s Xuxian Jiang has discovered a security flaw in Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread. According to the researcher, malicious websites can read out userdate on Micro SD cards.

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Sony Unveils Playstation Suite for Android

January 27th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | Comments Off

With the Xperia Play presumingly seeing daylight during the Mobile World Congress next month, Sony has announced a new service that could act as the followup to the current PSP Mini’s program.

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Sony Unleashes PSP2 codenamed NGP

January 27th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | Comments Off

Sony had a nice little surprise yesterday as the company showed off the NGP, the followup to their successful PSP handheld console. We gathered all the news from the net to give you the full specs of this little beast.

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Apple Launches App Store Twitter Account

January 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

Apple launched a new Twitter account for consumers that like to receive the latest news about sweet deals and promotions for their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

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Playboy’s Uncensored iPad App Isn’t an App

January 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Adult Games, Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

We had a big surprise a couple of days ago as Playboy’s Hugh Heffner announced to release an uncensored app on Apple’s App Store. The outcome of the story however is a bit less surprising.