Video Gaming industry hasn’t been this popular ever, average video game users are just climbing up by minutes. Video game industry is already a huge economical power house and it’s getting huger. The scenario is a lot different than what its used to be 5 years ago. Console games are not making money, while online and mobile games are taking over the market. Currently online and mobile games generates about 35% of total game industries revenue, and it’s market share growing. The way it’s going Consol game will be a relic like thingy in near future. So why is such a boom we are seeing in gaming economy? Console games revenue model was typical selling the game model, which …
Two years in creating, one and a half months in market with a cute little unique name, with stylish design and emphasized on trendy social network tools couldn’t save Kin from crashing. Just for the intro ‘Kin’ is the smart phone device that supposed to prove that Microsoft could build the right product at the right time for the ever changing tech savvy youngsters. But surprisingly less than two months after the Kin’s arrived in stores, Microsoft decided to kill it. Most probably the fastest ever end of a product by a tech giant. …
IDrive might sounds like another Apple product spinoff, but it’s no way anything like that. IDrive is an online backup solution by Pro Softnet Corp. a company specialized in the fields of Online Backup, Storage, and Remote Access. Online backup system and services are in demand and gaining significant momentum recently yet remains expensive when it comes to reliable backup. IDrive might be the change we all have been longing for. There are couples of high profile online baking systems out there like MSFT’s SkyDrive, Carbonite Online PCBackup, HP Upline, SOS Online backup etc. Some of them offer huge amount of free space for free or some even offer unlimited backup …
Microsoft planning on a shakeup that will split its mobile and gaming business into two sections, which was not supposed to be together in the first place. This an attempt to reclaim a leading position in the Smartphone market, a position that’s largely slipped away in the face of competition from Apple and Google. There is a good possibility that this shakeup could unleash the company’s mobile device efforts. Now the million dollar question is, whether this decision is on time or too late. In this shakeup Robbie Bach, president of the entertainment and devices group (Microsoft’s highest paid executive), will retire from Microsoft later this year, the company announced Tuesday. Bach won’t be replaced. Instead the two …
Among internet’s big brothers Yahoo is the slowest to expend it’s presence to mobile market. Well it’s better late than never. Isn’t it? Now aiming to expand its presence in the emerging markets, Internet giant Yahoo announced Tuesday that it has acquired Indonesia’s location-based services startup Koprol. This announcement came one day after announcing an expanded mobile partnership with Nokia. Yahoo said it will be leveraging the Jakarta-based startup’s user-generated community information to further localize its content for its products. How much Yahoo did spent for buying Koprol still unknown. Koprol was …
Growing admiration and success of Apple’s application store sparked concerns among Apple’s rivals that they are falling short of edge. Inevitably this fuels up their research and craves for something similar or better. In this endeavour Sun Microsystems came up with a mobile platform that enables developers to create iPhone-like apps for a wide variety of handsets. The JavaFX Mobile platform which launched yesterday (Thursday, 13th February 2009) will allow developers to create rich applications across the broadest possible range of mobile devices, from consumer handsets to smart phones. Without any doubt this was something a lot of developer’s were longing for. …
As the brand new state-wide law goes into effect @ California time for CA guys and ladies to get some wired or wireless Cell Phone Headsets. Now whether you’re a fan or not, fact is that if you’re going to be talking on a cell phone call, then you need a headset. While I agree with that the law needs to be tougher, and goes worldwide. Though most big city in the world got big road sign saying don’t text or e-mail while you’re driving-but how many of we did actually look at those billboards. That’s just plain dumb, and you could end up in World’s most spectacular accident. So whether you are living in California …