VentureBeat:
Game startup Gravity Bear is unveiling its first original game for Facebook today. Battle Punks is a “3-D social game” that will debut this holiday season.The game is set in a variety of fantasy locations, combining in-depth (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
At yesterday's Blackberry Developer Conference, several companies announced major updates to their applications and services designed for Blackberry smartphones. From Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) came new geoloca (Read More)
VentureBeat:
VentureBeat is throwing a new mini-conference and networking event, DiscoveryBeat.DiscoveryBeat addresses one of the biggest conundrums for Silicon Valley’s most dynamic startups and developers: How to get your social game or (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Slide, which started in photo-sharing, moved into Facebook widgets and then raised funding at a reported $550 million valuation last year, shifted gears this year and went aggressively into virtual goods. The company’s lookin (Read More)
VentureBeat:
With a new game, a new business model, and a new developer platform, iPhone game publisher Ngmoco has been able to land itself on the top of the AppStore charts.Ngmoco’s Eliminate Pro shooting game moved to the No. 1 spot on (Read More)
VentureBeat:
When Cafe World debuted on Facebook on Sept. 30, it lit up the social network immediately. The title, a simple simulation where you make food and run a restaurant, took off faster than any other social game in history.In its (Read More)
Mashable!:
David Spark (@dspark) is the founder of Spark Media Solutions, specialists in building industry voice through storytelling and social media. He blogs at Spark Minute and is a regular on Cranky Geeks and ABC Radio.For many, cr (Read More)
VentureBeat:
We’re kicking off DEMOfall 09 today in San Diego, where 56 tech companies will launch new products, and another 14 will give sneak peeks of the products that they’re working on.This is probably hasn’t escaped your notice, sin (Read More)
VentureBeat:
[This is part one of a two-part story on how the casual game market is evolving. See the second part here.]A year ago, the iPhone and social games on Facebook were barely on the radar at the Casual Connect conference in Seatt (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Jing has consistently been one of our favorite screenshot and screencasting tools here at ReadWriteWeb (especially among the Windows users). With one simple tool, you can take screenshots or record videos and save them to you (Read More)
mashable:
Dana Oshiro is a Canadian PR strategist and writer. She blogs regularly at Villagers With Pitchforks.It’s unlikely that you’ve wooed someone by holding an iPod over your head in the rain. How we enjoy, share, discover, market (Read More)
Mashable!:
Best Buy Remix, the API initiative that allows developers to tap into the retailer’s massive catalog of data, pricing, and images, which launched earlier this year, has already attracted interest from a number of applic (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
SXSW Interactive begins today, bringing thousands of geeks from all around the world to Austin, Texas to talk shop and party. One of the key stories about SXSW history is that the Twitter blew up there (in a good way) two ye (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
There has been a lot of speculation recently about an impending update to iTunes. Version 8.0, among other things, is supposed to finally bring a recommendation engine to the digital media player application. While that's int (Read More)
Mashable!:
If you’ve not yet heard of StumbleAudio and its claim on 2 million audio tracks of various independent flavorings, you might wish to familiarize yourself. The reason being that it’s evolved a bit since it launched last month. (Read More)
Mashable!:
SocialU claims not to be just another social network aggregator. Instead, they call themselves a social networking portal that runs as a desktop application via Adobe Air. The application is like a Web browser that displays a (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
A new school year is about to start and students nationwide will be clamoring for ways to keep up with their school work. With many schools starting to offer free iPod Touches, iPhones, and laptops, the iTunes App Store will (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Movie focused social network Flixster acquired a popular iPhone application called Movies.app (iTunes link) last week, and has re-released the application this evening. As far as we know, this is the first acquisition of an i (Read More)
Submitted by sunil:
In July, after Hasbro and Electronic Arts launched the official version of Scrabble on Facebook, they asked Facebook to take down Scrabulous, the competing app that started it all (and borrowed heavily from the trademarked ga (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Movie focused social network Flixster acquired a popular iPhone application called Movies.app (iTunes link) last week, and has re-released the application this evening. As far as we know, this is the first acquisition of an i (Read More)