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  • Chop Chop Tennis ™ Smashes Through the One Million Download Barrier on the App Store

    Posted on June 28, 2010 | No Comments
    MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gamerizon Studio is proud to announce that Chop Chop Tennis ™ has become the company’s third iPhone game in a row to generate over 1 million downloads on the App Store. Chop Chop Tennis™ became the # 1 downloaded sports game in over 40 countries late last week and during the weekend when it was offered free for a few days. It also reached the top 5 overall downloaded apps in most countries (including # 2 in the US and # 3 in China ). Chop Chop Tennis is available for a

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  • Apple sold 3 million iPads in 80 days; 11,000 iPad apps now available

    Apple sold 3 million iPads in 80 days; 11,000 iPad apps now available

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Apple has sold 3 million iPads in 80 days, according to a release issued by the company today. The statement also reported that there are 11,000 iPad apps available for the device. On May 31, Apple reported that it had sold 2 million iPad, showing that the company has sold one million more tablet devices in less than a month. The company only started shipping units to customers in countries outside the United States in late May, which could account for the faster growth in sales.

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  • Murata develops world’s first waterproof, ultra-thin piezoelectric speakers

    Murata develops world’s first waterproof, ultra-thin piezoelectric speakers

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Kyoto-based Murata has developed the world's first piezoelectric speaker that not only is waterproof but also ultra-thin (0.9mm). The devices are meant to be mainly used with mobile phones, which makes sense, given that almost 25% of the 50 latest cell phones released (on the Japanese market, at least) are actually waterproof.

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  • eBuddy downloaded 1 million times from Nokia’s Ovi Store in 3 months

    eBuddy downloaded 1 million times from Nokia’s Ovi Store in 3 months

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Web and mobile instant messaging (IM) aggregator service provider eBuddy, based in Amsterdam, has announced that its Mobile Messenger app has zoomed past one million downloads in less than three months on Nokia’s Ovi Store. The app has been downloaded by users in more than 203 countries, the company adds - a testament to the global footprint of Nokia. The app has garnered over 930 reviews on the Ovi Store and a 4/5 star rating. Alternatives on Nokia's Ovi Store include Nimbuzz and fring.

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  • The Mobile Web continues to expand, according to Taptu

    The Mobile Web continues to expand, according to Taptu

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    The proliferation of mobile content has caught Taptu (and a lot of other people) by surprise. Perhaps unsurprisingly the number of mobile applications has also increased rather dramatically. There's an interesting balance to be struck for content producers between device-specific applications and app stores, and the general availability, but reduced functionality, of a mobile web site. Taptu's latest report explores these details.

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  • New NEC technology detects pirated online videos “in seconds”

    New NEC technology detects pirated online videos “in seconds”

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Software that helps to detect "illegal" video content on the web automatically isn't really new, but NEC claims its technology has two selling points that sets it apart from similar solutions: speed and accuracy. The company says its system can identify pirated video material in a "matter of seconds", with a detection rate of 96% and at a false alarm rate of just five in one million cases.

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  • New Details On iPad’s International Rollout

    New Details On iPad’s International Rollout

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Relax Apple fanboys of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, your iPad will be available in stores May 28. Apple, as previously announced, will take pre-orders starting May 10. The next countries on deck, for a July release, is Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore. Local pricing will be disclosed at a later date. The international release of the iPad has been delayed due to heavy domestic demand, according to Apple. Latest stats: over one million sold, 12 million apps downloaded, and more than 1.5 million ebooks sold.

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  • Apple: 300,000 iPads sold, 1 million apps downloaded on first day

    Apple: 300,000 iPads sold, 1 million apps downloaded on first day

    Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments

    Apple has just announced that it sold over 300,000 iPads in the US as of midnight Saturday, April 3, including deliveries of pre-ordered devices to customers, channel partners and sales at Apple Retail Stores. For your reference, that's 30,000 devices more than iPhones were purchased when they first went on sale. Apple also announced that iPad users downloaded over one million apps from Apple's App Store and over 250,000 ebooks from its iBookstore during the first day.

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  • Alex eReader now on sale in the U.S. for $399 a pop, starts shipping mid-April

    Alex eReader now on sale in the U.S. for $399 a pop, starts shipping mid-April

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Spring Design this morning announced that its dual screen Alex eReader will be available online today (the rumors were true!) for $399. Customers can thus start pre-ordering the Android-based multimedia e-reader, which supports eBooks in EPUB, PDF, HTML and TXT formats. Spring Design says due to localization of international versions with partners, pre-orderded units placed on the Web in the U.S., will be shipped no later than mid-April.

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  • Analyst estimates 100,000 DROID smartphones sold in first weekend

    Analyst estimates 100,000 DROID smartphones sold in first weekend

    Posted on November 10, 2009 | No Comments

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    The lines may have been subdued, but one way or another, it sounds as if Motorola managed to sell quite a few DROIDs over the weekend. According to analyst Mark McKechnie at Broadpoint AmTech, the outfit managed to move around 100,000 of 'em during the opening weekend, with most stores moving at least half of their original shipments. He also estimated that Moto would sell one million Android-based phones in Q4 2009 alone (which includes the CLIQ, obviously), and that he viewed the first few days as "encouraging." It's been a long, long while since we've been able to say this, but hey -- nice job, Motorola.

    Analyst estimates 100,000 DROID smartphones sold in first weekend originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • First sales reports: PSP Go performing ‘within expectations,’ says Sony

    First sales reports: PSP Go performing ‘within expectations,’ says Sony

    Posted on October 5, 2009 | No Comments
    So the PS3 Slim was an absolute monster at retail (look at us, using superlative adjectives on a Monday!), selling one million systems since its release. (Keep in mind that's an old number by now.) How's the PSP Go doing? It's doing well, yes, but I don't think we can call it a monster yet. Sales in the UK were up 120 percent in the week following its launch. We don't have U.S. numbers yet. Sorry.

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  • One million PS3 Slims sold worldwide since its launch

    One million PS3 Slims sold worldwide since its launch

    Posted on September 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Finally, actual PS3 Slim sales numbers. Before all we had were percentages—sales up 300 percent over last week, that type of thing. Anyhow, Sony sold one million PS3 Slims since its launch back on September 1. That's worldwide, mind you.

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  • Hitachi Maxell develops world’s smallest lens module for camera phones

    Hitachi Maxell develops world’s smallest lens module for camera phones

    Posted on September 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Cameras in cell phones are getting better and better, and now Hitachi Maxell has announced [JP] its contribution to make them more worthwhile: the world's smallest lens modules for camera phones. And the company managed to reduce the mechanical noise picked up when you make video clips with your phone, too.

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  • A guide to Japan’s 32 best iPhone apps (all available in English)

    A guide to Japan’s 32 best iPhone apps (all available in English)

    Posted on September 6, 2009 | No Comments
    It's not really a secret that Japan is absolutely crazy about cell phones. And even though domestic makers churn out more than 100 different handsets every year (some of which are simply amazing), the iPhone is selling over here. SoftBank Mobile, the country's exclusive iPhone provider, doesn't release official data, but estimates put sales in Japan at well over one million units so far - not bad at all in this hopelessly over-saturated market. In other words, Japan doesn't hate the iPhone, as some blogs suggested in the past. It never did. The local developer community has noticed and produced a slew of apps aimed at a global audience. What follows is my subjective selection of the "best" of these made-in-Japan apps, all of which are at least available in English. (I left out iPhone games released by big companies such as Capcom, Konami, Sega or Namco to focus on apps created by startups or individuals based in Japan instead.) My personal favorite is a free (and fantastic) GPS-based photo sharing app called Memory Tree (just like all the apps in the following list, it works worldwide). But here's a round-up of all the 32 apps I chose, grouped in six categories (games, productivity, tools, photography and art, music, and everything else).

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  • PS3 Slim, anyone? Sony just ordered a whole bunch of PS3 components

    PS3 Slim, anyone? Sony just ordered a whole bunch of PS3 components

    Posted on August 4, 2009 | No Comments
    The rumors surrounding a possible PS3 Slim continue, annoyingly. DigiTimes, the paper of record when it comes to what's being manufactured in eastern Asia, says that Sony “has ordered enough parts to make one million consoles in the third quarter of this year, twice as many as in the last three months.” In other words, Sony just ordered an extraordinary amount of components.

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