What was the most popular mobile game on Christmas eve? By download volume, Temple Run would probably win. The game was downloaded more than 2.5 million times on Christmas day from multiple platforms.
Google’s Nexus 10 became available on November 13, 2012. Since then the tablet started to grab customers’ attention rapidly. Recently, Google accidentally revealed unannounced dock for the Nexus 10 tablet in a season’s greetings video.
Instagram recently attracted the ire of a huge portion of its users when it decided to trample all over their privacy rights and announced that it can make use of their content in all ways commercial. An Instagram user has now launched a class action lawsuit against Facebook, who now owns Instagram.
January is just around the corner and so, we hope, is the launch of the new BlackBerry 10 handsets that RIM has been promising. So far the company has been fairly mum about the new handsets but a few purported images of one of these devices have now hit the web which are quite impressive.
The mini-tablet market is fast becoming crowded. Every other regular tablet vendor is now offering a smaller, cheaper version to lure more customers. Joining others in this category is now Acer which plans on launching a 7-inch Acer Iconia B1 tablet by 2013.
Google has come to have a significant presence in the smartphone arena, thanks to its Nexus line of smartphones. Still, the company is far from being a major hardware player. Rumors have it that Motorola Mobility is now helping Google ready a true iPhone competitor.
Last month, Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg announced to pull the plug of Firefox 64-bit for Windows. The decision was widely opposed by the proponents of 64-bit Firefox. Now, Mozilla has taken an about turn, but on condition.
Angry Birds Star Wars has already wrecked quite a few records and blown off many sales milestones. Whereas it is already immensely popular among mobile users, Rovio is now bringing the Star Wars release to Facebook, packed with many new features.