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Finnish developer Angry Birds has revealed that Angry Birds Halloween, the latest version of its popular mobile game, has sold 1m copies on the Apple App Store after just six days on the market. The download features 45 new levels and is compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. …
Read More »New delay for white iPhone 4
Apple has delayed the launch of the long awaited white iPhone 4 for a third time, and the device will now be available from next spring. "We’re sorry to disappoint customers waiting for the white iPhone again," Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller told Reuters. It has never been entirely clear why …
Read More »Ex Bungie dev: Apple got close to buying us
Jobs â??initially declined an offer' to acquire the Halo studio
Read More »Steve Jobs’ ‘rage’ over Bungie sale to MS
It has emerged that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was furious to lose Mac-loving Bungie to Microsoft back when Halo was an unknown quantity. Ed Fries, the former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft, and the man central to Microsoft’s acquisition of Rare and Bungie, told sister site Develop he …
Read More »Steve Jobs raged at Microsoft over game studio sale
Apple boss made angry Ballmer call when Xbox bought Mac experts and Halo creators Bungie
Read More »Apple axes Flash from new Macs
Adobe’s Flash player and browser plugin has been removed from all new Apple products, effective as of this past Saturday. As noted by The Guardian, Adobe software will now require user downloads with each new Apple machine, without the ‘click to install’ prompt that explains why video animations or games …
Read More »Apple ends Flash player pre-installs
Adobe software quietly removed from all new Mac machines
Read More »Reggie: Apple can hurt us more than MS
The boss of Nintendo America has confessed that tech rival Apple could hurt” Nintendo’s success in the near-term and admitted that he fears the likes of iPhone far more than he does Microsoft, Xbox 360 or Windows Phone 7. Do I think that in the near term [Apple] can hurt …
Read More »10m daily downloads for App Store
Apple has announced that its App Store has now passed the seven billion downloads milestone, up from 6.5 billion at the start of September. That means the store is currently doing 10 million downloads every day – more than Android Market, BlackBerry App World and Android Market combined. (There’s some …
Read More »Intel backs OpenFeint with $3m
Social add-on for apps may have survived Appleâ??s Game Center push
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