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Steam may be coming to Android, iOS

By James DeRuvo
on 23 Mar, 2011

Valve's online game download service, Steam, may be coming to mobile devices. The possibility stems from a forum conversation between a Steam gamer Valve's president Gabe Newell, who said that in addition to looking into Android/iOS platform development, the service will also be adding a video recorder for capturing those precious game moments. Steam's service, expanded from Windows PC to Mac last year, and it's pretty certain that they're watching things like NVidia's Tegra Zone to see how widespread mobile gaming can get. And with the future of multi core processors, the timing may be right for the download service to toss their hat into the gaming app ring.

Rovio’s Amazon Connection will Change App Sales for Android Forever

By Chris Burns
on 21 Mar, 2011

If you've got your hand on the pulse of the developer community here in the Android world, you've got some sense that a maker of games can get a lot more cash in their pocket by giving away a game for free (with ad coverage all over it) than they can selling the game without ads. This is due in part to the market that's developed in the Android world, one where it's much more likely that a game will be popular and stay popular if it costs the consumer no currency*. All that may be about to change with Rovio's announcement that Angry Birds: RIO will be released on Amazon's new Android app market exclusively.

Android loses out to iPhone bigtime in JD Power Satisfaction Ratings

By Chris Burns
on 18 Mar, 2011

Oh snap, looks like JD Power still loves the iPhone more than every other phone they've got a rating for, those dastardly dudes. They've got every other bigtime brand on there, HTC, Motorola, Samsung, and even Nokia, Palm, and RIM Blackberry, though we're also not sure how they found those groups to top Samsung and their Galaxy S device line. Of course you could notice that Apple scores amongst the lowest for battery function, that owing a bunch to the researchers found that those using social networks (battery drainers) enjoyed their phones significantly more than those who had no use for such things.

Blaze Software says Android 50% faster than iPhone 4

By Shane McGlaun
on 17 Mar, 2011

If you have wondered what's faster for web surfing, an and or device of the iPhone 4 Blaze Software has found the answer. According to the field tests that Blaze ran the Android device is 50% faster than the iPhone 4 when it comes to page loading.

ScoreLoop encourages iOS defection to Android

By James DeRuvo
on 14 Mar, 2011

Social gaming network ScoreLoop is trying to tempt iOS game developers to join the wave and port all their games over to the Android platform. As part of their "Go Android" campaign, ScoreLoop is offering to help iOS gaming developers by providing support free of charge to any developers who wish to port their games over. In addition, ScoreLoop will also provide social gaming tools to make the transition smoother. ScoreLoop also offers features such as Leaderboards, Social challenges, Virtual Currency, and even Friend finding.

Real Life Risk, QonqR coming soon to Android

By Cory Gunther
on 9 Mar, 2011

If you are like me, you like the game Risk. I've played it since as early as I can remember, like back on board games even. It has been out in one form or another for most platforms and gaming consoles too. A group of Minnesota-based developers and friends submitted a unique app idea to the Twin Cities Startup Weekend, a local competition that challenges entrepreneurs and developers to build a prototype business over the course of a single weekend.

OpenFeint and The9 Pay Developers to Move to Android

By Chris Burns
on 9 Mar, 2011

Heck yeah, money! That's what every developer likes to hear, especially if they want time and resources to create the games and apps they want to make on platforms that are willing to dish out the cash. In this case, it's not the platform that's paying the case, it's a couple of powerhouses known as OpenFeint (social gaming network) and The9 (Chinese game publisher.) What these guys are doing is helping independent game publishers defray the cost of rebuilding (or simply building) their apps for Android, many of these independent developers having created these games for iOS because of what they saw as a simpler platform to develop for.

HTC ThunderBolt 10/24 Pattern Tipped for Release Date

By Chris Burns
on 8 Mar, 2011

We've received a tip from a fellow by the name of JR who has apparently recently had a chat with a friend of the family who works at corporate for Verizon. While we're not always jumping at attention for tips from friends of friends, if you know what I mean, this one smells like peanut butter, looks like peanut butter, and you know what? We think it's pretty much obvious that this is peanut butter. But before we get to the actual pattern she (the Verizon rep) gave that leads to the correct date, let's talk about what else she said, the funny stuff.

Viewsonic ViewPad 10 Android / Windows / Mac OS X Tablet?

By Chris Burns
on 8 Mar, 2011

No way. Not even pretending to be possible. Not out of the box anyway. The origin of the title of this post comes directly from our pals over at TUAW, that Apple blog, where they've identified a rather large mistake in the press materials sent out by Viewsonic today with the ViewPad 10. The application you see here, on the tablet shown in the release for the ViewPad 10, is PowerPoint for Mac. This isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened with press materials and it isn't the last, but since this tablet already runs Android and Windows, heck, why not another?

For developers, Android platform looks to be most profitable

By James DeRuvo
on 8 Mar, 2011

Since Android surpassed the iPhone to become the most popular smartphone in the market last year, it was only a matter of time before the Google OS would also become the most popular platform for developers. But not only that, app development on the Android is now the most profitable. To the point that developers are pulling advertising dollars out of iOS based apps and doubling down on the Bot.