Tag archive: downloads

Following news that Nintendo will introduce an application store with its forthcoming Wii U console, a rumor has appeared that an eBook download service could be introduced too. This builds on the speculation that Nintendo wants its next console to be more than just a games machine. Quoting an unnamed software developer who has been working with Nintendo, Forgetthebox.net was told of a complete eBook download service, featuring not only books,… Read More

If the latest data from mobile analytics firm Flurry is anything to go by, it appears a great deal of us spent Christmas Day shopping – shopping for apps, that is. From its research, Flurry discovered that a record breaking 242 million app downloads took place on Christmas Day, more than double the 108 million daily average downloaded from December 1 to 20. That’s an increase of 125 percent. “Nearly a quarter of a billion downloads… Read More

Steve Ballmer just spits out numbers. He can't seem to help himself. Earlier this year, he claimed that Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) would have 500 new features and said Windows 8 would be available in mid 2012. Yesterday, in an appearance at Microsoft's BUILD conference he revealed that the Windows 8 developer preview, a running copy of Windows 8 that anyone can download and install, was downloaded more than 500,000 times in its first… Read More

At most companies, if a product development meeting started with the spiel: “I've got an idea for a game. It involves some birds. And they're all livid because some green pigs stole their eggs,” then the boss would probably respond with: “Go and have a lie down.” Not Rovio. When the developer of Angry Birds outlined the game's concept, the boss more than likely came back with: “That's a ridiculous idea. Go do it.” It… Read More

We grow tired of constantly reporting on the popularity of Angry Birds. Unfortunately, it keeps setting records. Rovio's movie-branded sequel to its blockbuster mobile game has only been out for 10 days in the United States, but has already racked up 10 million downloads on Android devices (free), the iPhone ($.99), and iPad ($2.99). Instead of killing pigs like the original, Angry Birds Rio transports the birds to Rio de Janeiro where… Read More

In what might be the corniest product tie in since Owl City performed a song in the animated owl movie Legend of the Guardians, game developer Rovio has signed a deal with 20th Century Fox to release a Rio branded version of Angry Birds on Android, iPhone, Nokia (Symbian), and possibly other platforms, this March. The move is an effort by Fox to help Rio, an upcoming original CGI animated film, compete at the beginning of this year's… Read More

Sony unveiled its NGP (Next Generation Portable) yesterday, but left many questions unanswered. While the device appears to be a solid successor to the PSP, we don't yet know how many original games it will have, what it will cost, how it will use 3G, or what kind of battery life the dual quad-core device will get. Historically, small questions like these have meant the difference between a successful handheld game player and a failure.… Read More

It's official: people love apps no matter what device they're on. Samsung has revealed that more than 2 million apps have been downloaded from its Samsung Apps store, which is one of the first app stores made for televisions. After it launched its app store in March 2010, it took leader in Internet-enabled TVs until November to hit 1 million downloads, but it has already doubled that number to 2 million in under two months.… Read More

The DivX video format has long been a popular option for folks encoding video to hard disk and DVD (since it gets good compression while maintaining decent video quality)—and, of course, DivX is a frequently-seen video format on torrents and fire sharing networks. While a growing number of consumer electronics devices have been intregrating support for DivX—including set-top boxes, HDTVs, disc players, and systems like the PlayStation 3—there… Read More