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2013年10月19日星期六

Angry Birds has reached 350 million downloads

Angry Birds has reached 350 million downloads, consumes 300 million minutes of the world's free time each day

Millions this, millions that – the Angry Birds team are probably all patting each other on the back, celebrating passing 350 million downloads. The company’s General Manager Andrew Stalbow bragged about some other numbers – like people spending 300 million minutes each day on the popular bird-flinging game.

But it’s not just about the game anymore – the animated shorts Rovio has put up on YouTube (like this one) have gathered over 170 million views.

Angry Birds already had a tie in with the movie Rio and Stablow hinted at “some interesting entertainment partnerships that will hopefully take what we had from [Angry Birds Rio] to a totally different level.��

He also said that Rovio will be focusing on Angry Birds as a franchise for now, but was mum on whether the company will start another franchise or not.

There’s no denying that Angry Birds has been good for them though – the company is reportedly valued around $1.2 billion and has become a phenomenon, leading to things like this or this.

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2013年10月16日星期三

Facebook updates photos with a new mosaic view

Facebook has revamped the photos view in your profile, which will now show up as a mosaic of different sized photos that roughly resembles the Metro UI on the Windows 8 homescreen. It also looks very similar to the way Google+ arranges images in its photos view.

The new photos view also puts all your pictures in one location. If you want to highlight certain images, you can click on the image and select the Highlight option, at which point that photo’s thumbnail will appear four times bigger than the others. Of course, you still have the albums as before, now in a separate section.

As is usual for Facebook changes, this new update will roll out gradually to everyone, so if you don’t have it already, you should get it soon.

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2013年10月15日星期二

Check out the Apple iPhone 4S and iCloud promo videos

As usual when Apple announces major addition to its portfolio, the Cupertino-based company released cool promo videos dedicated to each of them. With the Apple iPhone 4S and iCloud being the stars of the show tonight, it was only a matter of time before two videos popped app at the company’s official website.

So here they are for your viewing pleasure. If you haven’t followed the Tim Cook keynote, those videos will do a good job of summing up the best parts of the iPhone 4S and the iCloud service for you.

2013年10月13日星期日

YouTube looking to offer paid channel subscriptions as early as Q2

According to several sources, YouTube hopes to begin offering paid subscription channels which will offer premium, produced content.

In an attempt to lure producers away from the traditional television avenues of content delivery, Google is looking to become the first production company for online content capable of reaching such broad audience.

YouTube has allegedly reached out a select group of channel producers inquiring whether they would like to create channels with paid content, the price of which would be between $1 and $5 a month.

There’s also talk of providing paid access to coverage of live events via pay-per-view, or for specific self-help or financial advice programs.

Likely, the initial group of paid channels will be small, with around 25 being submitted for the trial run, the first of which could appear as early as this Spring.

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2013年10月10日星期四

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 launches on Android as an Xperia PLAY exclusive

Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY has just got a nice FPS exclusive among the rest of the droids. EA has launched Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for Xperia PLAY via its dedicated game store.

The game has been released for the iOS gadgets since the last December and its price there has been varying between �0.79 and �2.39.

Unfortunately, the Xperia PLAY Android exclusive (for now) costs ￡5. But the gameplay should be much more interesting using the PLAY’s hardware controls.

Here is the trailer:

In case you own Xperia PLAY and you’re interested buying Battlefield: Bad Company 2, just go to the PLAY’s dedicated game store. It’s still unclear whether this will stay a PLAY exclusive or it will hit the Android Market later.

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2013年10月9日星期三

MeeGo-running Moorestown-based Aava prototype caught in the wild

While we’re still waiting for Nokia to announce its first MeeGo-powered device, the Moorestown-based Aava Mobile smartphone has already started cropping up around the globe. It has just been caught in the wild and a video is about to show up within the next couple of days.

The MeeGo is still in the works and since Nokia N900 won’t be getting it (at least not officially, though) when the new platform is ready to hit the market we’re still yet to meet the first Nokia phone packing the MeeGo.

And while Nokia is taking a nap, the competition isn’t sleeping: the first Aava prototypes (based on the Moorestown platform) have just begun surfacing. Like this one (pictured above), which posed for a quick live shot and is said to appear on a hands-on video over the following 48 hours. So, stay tuned.

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2013年10月8日星期二

8GB Archos 70 starts shipping

8GB Archos 70 starts shipping, the 250GB HDD version is still on stand-by

If you are on the hunt for a 7” Android tablet, you probably considered the Archos 70 at some point. And if you haven’t written it off for one reason or another you now have the chance to give it a hands-on in a store near you.

The ultra-slim Eclair-running tablet (Froyo update should come this month) is available for order through the company’s official US store and you can get it for 279 US dollars. In Europe some online stores have the Archos 70 in stock too, prices being around 215 GBP in the UK or 250 euro in Germany (both equaling about 350 dollars).

For that kind of cash you are getting a 7” WVGA multi-touch capacitive touchscreen, 1GHz Hummingbird CPU, USB host functionality with a standard USB port, HDMI, microSD card slot, a huge number of supported video and audio codecs and a front-facing VGA camera. There’s also a kickstand at the back to make watching those movies all the better.

And if you find the internal storage of 8GB too little, you can wait a little longer for the 250GB HDD version. Have in mind, though that it costs 75 bucks more, is 14mm thick and weighs 400g (compared to 10mm and 300 g on the 8GB version).

Now how about releasing that sweet-looking 10.1” Archos 101, too?

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