February search engine market data released by Experian Hitwise today differs from the counts issued by comScore yesterday . But the topline takeaway is the same: Microsoft’s Bing continues to nibble its way up the charts
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Bing creeps upward again in search share
Chasing the popularity of social network games, Oberon Media is announcing today that it is adding social features to its casual games on a variety of platforms.
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Oberon Media joins the crowd making casual games more social
Filed under: iPod Family , iPhone , iPad Ever since the iPad ’s introduction a month and a half ago, the internet has been awash in criticism of the as-yet-unreleased device. “It’s just a big iPod touch,” many have said.
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Don’t trust the critics: Four Apple products they thought would fail
As Facebook has moved away from letting app developers spam users in their apps, RockYou has had to adjust its business away from purely viral apps such as hugs or gifts. And one of its great new schemes to keep Facebook users engaged in its apps is the Deal of the Day.
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RockYou’s Deal of the Day is new way to monetize social games with ads
The CodePlex Foundation has announced the arrival of several new board members, including Jim Jagielski, the Chief Open Source Officer of SpringSource. Jagielski, who was one of the original cofounders of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), brings a lot of credibility and leadership experience to the CodePlex Foundation.
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CodePlex refresh, FOSS projects more compatible with Windows
Filed under: Gaming , Software , Freeware , App Store , iPad We got to sit down with Australian developer Firemint here at the Game Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco — it’s a mobile game developer who hit it big last year with the very popular iPhone game Flight Control , and while it used to make mobile games for just a handful of larger game publishers like EA, the company is now trying to cement a reputation for making a smaller stable of high quality App Store games.
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GDC 2010: Real Racing and Flight Control on the iPad with Firemint
The implosion of Infinity Ward , one of the best game studios ever founded in video games, is the latest chapter in a long saga that is intertwined with the history of intense combat video games. The lawsuit filed by the studio’s co-founders last week against parent company Activision Blizzard was the saddest milestone at a studio that has come to be cherished by millions of hardcore game fans. In the beginning, there was Saving Private Ryan
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The making and unmaking of Infinity Ward
Let’s look back at the week that was in Microsoft news.
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Week in Microsoft: browser ballot arrives, to go global?
