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Next Gen Apple TV Much Improved
According to sources close with BuzzFeed, the next-gen Apple TV will be a much-improved version. Apple plans on announcing the new Apple TV at the World Wide Developers Conference they hold in June. During the conference, they also plan on introducing the SDK dedicated to the Apple TV, and its own…
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Apple Introduces Pay Once & Play to Tackle Freemium Hostility
Apple has introduced a new Pay Once & Play category to the App Store so that customers can find games that don’t feature in-app purchases, à la freemium games. Games in the Pay Once & Play section, as the name suggests, require a one-time fee, with no future payments required…
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Use Your Voice to Save Sole Survivor on a Spaceship in New iOS Game
A common videogame trope involves the player being guided through a level by a helpful voice transmitted over radio – think Atlas in BioShock – but a new mobile game has turned the tables. Mayday! Deep Space, written by Robopocalypse author Daniel H. Wilson, asks you, the player, to guide…
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Google Pulls Amazon App From Play Store Searches
A possible dispute between Amazon and Google has resulted in the regular Amazon app for Android being removed from Google Play Store listings. Back in September, Amazon began offering Android apps for download via its app, which seems to have riled Google. Though the Play Store is often more lenient…
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Google Chromecast Now More Popular Than Apple TV
Google’s Chromecast TV streaming dongle outsold Apple TV over the first three quarters of 2014, according to Parks Associates, a market researcher. Google has been given the boost over their rival during a 10% upswing in the number of households now using home media players. Roku, the market leader for…
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Apple and Developers Release Special (RED) Apps
Apple and a number of its high profile App Store developers have released special apps in support of AIDS charity (RED). Apple itself has released an updated (RED) version of GarageBand on iOS, informing users that by buying the app’s musical loops pack, 100% of the proceeds will go towards (RED)’s efforts…
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Apple Replaces ‘FREE’ with ‘GET’ on the App Store
Apple has suddenly started replacing ‘FREE’ with ‘GET’ for freely downloadable apps on their iOS App Store. When you go to download a free app now on an iOS device, you’ll be greeted with the new term on the download button. It appears that this change may have most likely…
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Downloads Drop as Existing Apps Are Too Good
It seems apps are just too good at the moment as the numbers downloaded have dropped significantly. It seems that downloading smartphone apps has reached saturation point apparently because the existing apps are just too good. Researchers say that 31% of smartphone users very rarely download apps at all, an…
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Havok Technology To Power BioShock on iOS
BioShock, the iconic story-driven shooter from 2K Games is heading to the App Store later this summer for iOS devices. The game is now confirmed to be running on Havok technology to provide animation and physics processing for the game. When the game was launched back in 2007, developer Irrational…
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Office for iPad Recieves PDF and Image Tools
Users of Microsoft’s Office on iPad can now export files as a PDF on the mobile platform, this has been a heavily requested feature since it first became available on IOS. This isn’t the only feature that the update brings, all apps within the Office range can now crop images…
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Facebook Will Begin to Force Users to Install Messenger App
Once again we get another reason to hate Facebook more than we do already, in the next few days Facebook will be forcing users to download the messenger application to their mobile device to continue talking with friends and family. This is for the world, as far as I know,…
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Google to Stop Labelling Apps “Free” If They Have in-App Purchases.
Google have made the very welcome decision to remove the “free” tag from apps which off in-app purchases. By the end of September, all apps on the Play Store in Europe will be affected by the change and it’s likely that a global roll out of this feature will soon…
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Flappy Bird Becomes Overnight Sensation, Despite Being Infuriating
Sometimes it is the simplest games that are the most fun, and they don’t get much more simple that Flappy Bird, a game that nods back to the era of 8-bit gaming, features a simple control scheme and it’s one of the hardest games that has ever been created. There…
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Pebble’s App Store Is Reported To Launch This Monday
It appears that Pebble officially confirms its app store will be launching tomorrow on iOS devices with the Android version not too far behind. The Pebble app store will integrate with the Pebble smartphone app for iOS and Android devices for searching, browsing and downloading new Pebble apps on the…
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Apple’s App Store Reaches $10 Billion In Sales From 2013
Looks like Apple has had a good year, with the company making over $10 billion in sales from their App Store. In an announcement released on Tuesday Apple said that over 3 billion apps were downloaded over december to the tune of nearly $1 billion dollars made over the december…
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