Kindle Fire Ships Today, One Day Early

By laurensalad on 11/14/2011

A day earlier than previously expected, Amazon’s Kindle Fire began shipping today.

The Kindle Fire was originally announced on September 28th at a price of $199, making it an affordable tablet option and a competitor device to the iPad and the Barnes & Noble Nook. iPad pricing begins at $499 and the new Nook will retail for $249 (just $50 dollars more than the Fire).

The Kindle Fire will offer access to 100,00 movies and TV shows and 400 magazines.
The release of the Kindle fire is appropriately timed for the upcoming holiday shopping and sales surrounding Black Friday and the Christmas season.

Are you excited to try the Kindle Fire? How have recent product reviews influenced your purchase and application porting decisions?

Source: Mashable

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Yahoo Japan Launches Android App Store

By laurensalad on 11/14/2011

Yahoo Japan announced today the launch of its own Android App Store, called Yahoo Market. Making this significant move, Yahoo Japan solidifies itself one of the biggest search engines on the web and one of the largest websites in Asia.

Currently, the App Store provides reviews and ratings for existing applications on Google’s Android Market. Yahoo Market in Japan will begin selling apps in 2012. This will put Yahoo Market on par with similar online marketplaces like Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Source: IndustryGamers

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Gamesalad 0.9.85

By admin on 11/11/2011

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Gamesalad 0.9.85 è stato rilasciato, la principale novità è l’opportunità di creare applicazioni per sistemi Android con facilità e senza conoscere codici di programmazione.

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iOS & Android Control 58% of US Portable Game Revenue

By laurensalad on 11/10/2011

Flurry, a mobile analytics team revealed on Wednesday that free and inexpensive games from iOS and Android devices have taken control of the portable game market. New data shows that Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android captured 58% of the United States portable game revenue in 2011. This is a significant change from 2009 when the Nintendo DS formerly lead the market controlling 70% of the portable market.

“We see, for the first time, that smartphone revenue in the U.S. has leap-frogged portable game revenue,” said Peter Farago, vice president of marketing with Flurry. “The disruption has been downright brutal.”

“The days of paying $25, or more, for a cartridge at a retail store may soon end,” Farago said. “Further, the installed base of iOS and Android devices has not only reached critical mass, but also continues to grow at unprecedented rates.”

Source: Apple Insider

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Amazon Orders More Kindle Fires

By laurensalad on 11/10/2011

Amazon has asked their manufacturing partners to raise the input for the upcoming Kindle Fire release. Demand has been higher than previous expected and Amazon plans to add another million units on top of the four million already on order.

With a total of five million Kindle Fires headed to Amazon.com before the end of the year, Amazon hopes to meet increasing demand. Some analysts are claiming that early demand for the Kindle Fire has exceeded the demand for the first iPad.

AllThingsD reports that, “a new survey conducted by ChangeWave and RBC Capital Markets found that 5 percent of the 2,600 respondents had either already preordered or were “very likely” to buy the Fire, exceeding the 4 percent who said in 2010 that they were very likely to buy the iPad.”

Source: AllThingsD

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