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  • Never Ending Goldrush: Doodle Jump for iPhone Smashes Through 3 Million Sales

    Never Ending Goldrush: Doodle Jump for iPhone Smashes Through 3 Million Sales

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Doodle Jump for the iPhone is something like a developer's fairy tale: two brothers set out to make a game using only the talents they've got at hand, and end up striking gold. They keep pushing out minor updates, and the game just keeps selling. Tomorrow morning, Lima Sky will be announcing that Doodle Jump has just surpassed 3 million sales -- a feat, they claim, is a first for any Indie development house. If it seems like we were just writing about Doodle Jump surpassing the 1 million download mark, it's because we were; that last landmark only just came in mid-December of last year. Less than 3 months later, Lima Sky has managed to triple an already impressive haul.

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  • Flixster crosses 8 million mobile users, celebrates with app updates for Android and BlackBerry

    Flixster crosses 8 million mobile users, celebrates with app updates for Android and BlackBerry

    Posted on October 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Flixster, a social networking site for movie fans, is doing pretty well for itself in the mobile space. Name any smartphone platform, and there's a good chance that the Flixster app has spent some time on it's top download charts. iPhone? Yep. BlackBerry? Yep. Android and Palm webOS? Double yeps. Earlier today, the company shared with us the news that they'd crossed over a fairly monumental landmark, along with the details surrounding updates for their apps on both Android and BlackBerry OS.

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  • Unboxing: Toshiba TG01 gets the customary unrobing

    Unboxing: Toshiba TG01 gets the customary unrobing

    Posted on July 10, 2009 | No Comments
    The TG01 has arrived, folks. The swoon-worthy 1Ghz Snapdragon processor is now flying free in the UK and Japan, decoding 720p video without even breaking a sweat. As with any landmark handset release, it was only a matter of time before someone stripped this thing of its box and took pics along the way. Slashgear managed [...]

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  • Build Your Own Paper New York

    Build Your Own Paper New York

    Posted on June 18, 2009 | No Comments
    These fantastic papercraft models will let you reconstruct a little Big Apple at home. And when we say little, we mean it. The models, which depict landmark New York buildings, come as printed postcards, which means 4-5/8″ x 6-3/4″ in size. You then (carefully) cut them out and stick them together. You can pick the ones you [...]

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