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Total global sales of Apple’s latest tech sensation,the iPad, have now reached 3m units in less than three months on the market. iPad previously hit the 1m sales barrier at the beginning of May. In the following month that total hit 2m. Since then the device has launched in a …
Read More »3DS to challenge Kindle and iPad
More details are emerging about Nintendo’s intended scope for its new 3DS handheld – with latest comments from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata suggestion newspaper and magazine content functions like those seen on the Kindle and iPad In a new interview with Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Iwata said the online functions of …
Read More »Unity talks iPad support
Unityâ??s Thomas Grové has strongly backed his firmâ??s iPhone engine for iPad games development
Read More »Unity Focus: iPad Development
Thomas Grové explains how Unity is ready to support developerâ??s needs for iPad app gaming.
Read More »iPad suffers data breach
A hacker group called Goatse Security has succeeded in acquiring the email addresses of a large number of AT&T subscribers thanks to a security hole in the iPad. According to Gawker, the hackers managed to persuade AT&T to provide the details using a customer ICC-ID, which links a certain device …
Read More »GTA IV sales hit 17m
As well as confirming the Red Dead series’ status as one of the modern games industry’s big-hitters, publisher Take Two has also updated investors on the latest sales successes of its other blockbuster IP. 2008 release Grand Theft Auto IV has now sold over 17m copies worldwide, meaning that in …
Read More »Steve Jobs: iPhone dev revenues â??just hit $1bnâ??
As the Apple CEO reveals 5 billion App Store downloads
Read More »Steve Jobs: iPhone dev revenues â??just hit $1bnâ??
As the Apple CEO reveals 5 billion App Store downloads
Read More »iPad sales hit 2m in 60 days
Apple says it has sold more than two million iPads since launching the device on 3 April. The device’s launch in nine countries outside the US on Friday appears to have pushed it past the milestone, although the company hasn’t broken down the sales by geography. Apple sold 300,000 in …
Read More »High Street welcomes the iPad
Retailers have braced themselves for an iPad sales rush as the potentially lucrative device goes on sale in the UK for the first time today. Video games have become a major selling point for Apple’s latest touch-screen unit – with hundreds of titles available to download from the App Store …
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