The NPD group recently released information leading researchers to believe that the gaming market is shrinking. With sales in 2010 being announced at $18.58 billion, down from $19.66 billion in 2009, which was a decrease from $21.4 billion in 2008. When divided up, this is a 6% decrease in software sales and 13% drop in [...]
Zynga, the social network games developer of games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars and FrontierVille, will not be put up for sale but would more likely be floated on the stock market, its co-founder and chief executive, Mark Pincus, has said. The company is less than three years old but its most popular game, FarmVille, has [...]
If you couldn’t see the trees for the wood before on Street View, you certainly can now: Google has released its latest version of Street View, called Earth 6, that has added in 3D trees among other features to its virtual geographical tour. The update is available for Windows, OS X and Linux and adds [...]
Google’s YouTube has announced that it will pay royalties to French artists when their works are shown on the popular video sharing website. An agreement has been signed with three French royalty societies in a move that will be closely watched by artists worldwide worried at the erosion of fees through online exposure. French collecting [...]
Smartphones and Twitter proved to be the two most popular products for Japanese consumers in 2010, according to a survey by ad agency Dentsu. Flat screen TVs developed for the digital broadcasting age came in at a surprising fourth place in the agency’s annual ‘Hit Product Recognition Survey’ behind a “munchable chilli oil”, a chunky [...]
Mobile gift cards are set to become a respectable and welcoming gift which can be purchased and redeemed electronically. Mobile gift cards can be exchanged via e-mail or text message on a smartphone and are redeemable by scanning your phone’s screen at the register or providing a gift card ID number. Unlike their cousins – [...]
The US Federal Communications Commission wants to update the 911 emergency calls system to allow text and video messages to be also included. According to the FCC, texts and video messages to 911 by trapped students and teachers could have saved lives during the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007. The 911 system was set over [...]
Many have tried and all have failed, but now gamers playing Call of Duty: Black Ops get a chance to assassinate Cuba’s elderly leader, Fidel Castro, a development that has drawn criticism from the communist regime. “I think I hold the dubious record of having been the target of more assassination attempts than any politician, [...]
The makers of the Blackberry are suffering from a decision by Dell to switch its handsets for 25,000 employees over to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile OS platform. The move by Dell to shift about a quarter of its workforce over to its new Venue Pro phone will cut its mobile communications costs by 25%, [...]
The Queen of England has attracting more than 200,000 visitors to her new Facebook site and the number is rapidly rising as users click to get a glimpse of royalty as social networkers. Before you rush in to request that she be your friend, the bad news is that you can’t. Nevertheless, you can add [...]
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