Earlier in the year we caught site of an interesting new gadget at the London Toy Fair, the App Blaster is an augmented reality gun attachment and game for the iPhone created by the guys at Apptoyz. Since then the product has gone from strength to strength and is now available to buy from Red5. When we used the appblaster back in January we were impressed, it comes with...
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If we were to ask you which was the most used connected app in the UK, what would be your answer? Many would say Facebook, Twitter or Google Mobile and whilst two out of three of those are in the top twenty neither get anyway near Google Maps. Internet researchers, Comscore looked at the most used apps in May to determine the top twenty connected apps in the UK. They discovered...
After a week of frantic console gaming at E3, mobile app developers are starting to reveal their sales figures. Chillingo led the way by revealing they have sold 140 million apps since the Apple app store opened. Today Gameloft has responded with a press release that says the group has sold an impressive 200 million titles in the same time. Gameloft owes its success to...
Sky is preparing a brand new service which will render Sky Player obsolete from next month onwards. Sky Go is a new mobile service which will both current Sky subscribers and non-subscribers alike to access Sky channels via their PC, laptop or tablet PC whilst on the move. Current Sky subscribers will be able to register two devices to work with Sky Go, they will...
How about this for a stat to make you choke on your early morning cornflakes or late night kebab. In March of this year Apple customers downloaded a staggering 5 million games. Per day! Actually, that’s not quite true. The figures come from market research firms Newzoo and Distimo and they were only tracking 63 million users during this time. So the true total has got...
The future of free apps which are upgradable to paid versions is likely to be resolved in the next couple of weeks, and all thanks to US patent no. 7,222,078. What is that patent, we hear you ask. Well, it comes from a firm called Lodsys and it seems that these guys have got the “methods and systems for gathering information from units of a commodity across a network”...
Have you ever wondered what you would look like as a Prince, or more accurately a Duke or Duchess of Cambridge? Well the team from Total Immersion and apptronic can help with their new app called the Royal Mirror. It utilizes the very latest augmented reality technology that tracks the users face whilst superimposing the face either the Duke of Cambridge (Prince William)...
If you like reading Time magazine and like your iPad then we have some fantastic news for you today as it seems that the two powerhouses in their respective fields have come to an agreement to provide app access free to print magazine subscribers. The last few months have been fraught with talks and negotiations between Apple and TIME Inc who have now agreed that their...
Photoshop world 2011 has unveiled some interesting new tech making its way to the Apple iPad in the near future. Adobe has been showing off a new app that they are still developing that will bring the most powerful editing tools to the iPad. Adobe already provides a basic version, Photoshop Express for the iPad and iPad 2 which offers basic tools for editing photographs....
The Sky News app for the iPhone and iPod touch has been a firm favourite for people seeking the latest updates, videos and even quirky stories since it launched on the app store. Many iPad users have been asking when they would get a dedicated app, well they’ll be asking no longer as it is now available to download from the app store. Instead of simply plugging in stories...