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Riptide Games has revealed how well virtual goods sales work on the iPhone with its new game Gravity Sling . It’s yet another case study in how to get ahead in the iPhone economy. There’s a lot of hope that virtual goods sales — known as in-app purchases...
Tags: virtual goods, app purchases, open feint, Brian Robbins, goods sales, level packs, gravity sling, Italy, Rome, Smartphones, Web 2.0, App Store, Facebook, Apple Inc., Business Finance, IPhone, ITunes, Multi-touch, Technology Internet
This post is sponsored by GetJar. Open vs Closed is one of today’s hottest topics in the apps and appstores world. It seems like everybody supports Open; also everybody calls themselves Open, but is it really so? First, let’s define what Open really...
Tags: Google, San Francisco, Web 2.0, Mozilla Firefox, Smartphones, Google Chrome, Social information processing, Application programming interfaces, IPhone, Business Finance, Small business, Technology Internet, NPAPI, Gears, Android, Social media, App Store, Cloud clients, ITunes, Mozilla, Mobile operating system, PartnerUp
In one of the latest forays by the pharmaceuticals industry into mobile technology platforms for chronic disease management, Sanofi-Aventis has launched the iPhone application GoMeals, designed to help diabetics make the healthiest food choices. The...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Diabetes, Obesity, App Store, Diabetes mellitus, Sanofi-Aventis, Nutrition, IPhone, ITunes, Health Medical Pharma, Hospitality Recreation, Technology Internet
It's "A store [that] for the most part people can trust", according to Phil Schiller, the company's veep of marketing and all-around amusing guy on the front bench at Apple. In an interview with Arik Hessendahl of BusinessWeek , Schiller explains that...
Tags: Phil Schiller, United Kingdom, London, Multi-touch, Smartphones, App Store, Jailbreak, Philip W. Schiller, ITunes, IPhone, Apple Inc., Technology Internet
Backflip Studios has managed to defy the odds on the iPhone by coming up with hit games that have become big hits over and over. The Boulder, Colo.-based game studio has just six employees and has been around only seven months. But they have scored big...
Tags: virtual goods, Boulder, Smartphones, Video game developers, Zynga, FarmVille, App Store, allnews, IPhone, ITunes, Multi-touch, Technology Internet, Paper Toss, Ngmoco, Business Finance, video games
There are tons of karaoke applications for the iPhone, but a startup called Khu.sh is introducing a twist on the concept, “reverse karaoke,” to the App Store. There have been other reverse karaoke products, most notably Microsoft Songsmith , a Windows...
Tags: reverse karaoke, San Francisco, Smartphones, Portable media players, App Store, Karaoke, IPhone, ITunes, Multi-touch, Entertainment Culture, Technology Internet
Tech nerds and State House types braved the remnants of Hurricane Ida last Saturday for a meeting that, for a state-run agency, was downright hip...The best of the brightest of techies—in sneakers and with laptops, instead of suits and legal pads—turned...
Tags: iphone applications, MBTA, Boston, Multi-touch, Smartphones, MBTA Commuter Rail, App Store, IPhone, ITunes, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
We’ve got some great momentum for VentureBeat’s upcoming DiscoveryBeat event, which will attack the problem of how to get attention for an app in the midst of a lot of noise. One of our newest speakers is Randy Breen, chief operating officer at Social...
Tags: San Francisco, Automattic, Zynga, Business Finance, Brain-computer interfacing, Emotiv Systems, App Store, Technology Internet, Multi-touch, Smartphones, Aurora Feint, Ngmoco, IPhone, ITunes, Video game publishers
We're nearing that time of the year where we give our credit cards a workout at various retailers picking up gifts for friends and family...I am certain there is someone like me in everyone's family: A bit geeky, always online and obsessed with the latest...
Tags: Zune HD, Amazon Kindle, Evansville, Chumby, IPod, App Store, Xbox 360, Portable media players, Zune, Technology Internet
The application channels Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) blogs, podcasts, alerts and up-to-the-minute computer safety information to iPhones and iPod Touch devices. "In a world where your customers or employees are not always connected to...
Tags: Cisco Security Intelligence Operations, AM Cisco, Michael Weir, Australia, Melbourne, Smartphones, Cisco Systems, App Store, Certis CISCO, IPhone, ITunes, Multi-touch, Technology Internet