Mobile game spend

Mobile game spending crushing Wii U, Vita titles - GeekWire: "With more than half of us now sporting smartphones, more and more people can purchase and play mobile games. That means you don’t have to own a Nintendo 3DS or PlayStation Vita to game on the go, and new data reveals how exactly that’s hurting the traditional handheld gaming companies. App Annie and IDC just posted its second quarter “Portable Gaming Spotlight,” which found that consumer spending on games in the App Store and Google Play rose to four times that of handheld consoles. And for the first time ever, game spending on Google Play alone surpassed handheld game revenue. Games also represented more than 40 percent of app downloads and 70 percent of app revenue in both app stores."

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Siri Smack Talks Google Glass (video)

Siri Now Smack Talks Google Glass - ABC News: "Now when you refer to Siri as Google Glass, by uttering the words "OK, Glass," she will respond with one of a few snarky phrases, including the following:
"I think that Glass is half empty."
"Stop trying to strap me to your forehead. It won't work."
"I'm not Glass. And I'm just fine with that."
"Glass? I think you've got the wrong assistant."
"Just so you know, I don't do anything when you blink at me."
For now only Apple's personal assistant is talking smack, when you ask Google's Google Now service about Siri it will simply just search the web. However, Google says that Google Glass has the following response to Siri's newly learned phrases. "Siri, it's not you, it's me. You see, I just met Google Voice Search and fell hard for her. She doesn't just listen; she understands me," Google Glass said in a statement."

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Android, responsive design matters

Why responsive design really matters for Android #fragmentation #rwd pic.twitter.com/qtwYVIfmNO
— Paul Stamatiou (@Stammy) July 30, 2013

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Stunning Views from Top of the World (video)

Google Seizes Stunning Views from Top of the World: Video - Bloomberg: "July 24 (Bloomberg) -- Google Maps' Street View isn't just for city streets anymore. Using mobile panoramic camera rigs, the Google team has been capturing some truly unexpected environments, from coral reefs to mountain tops. Bloomberg takes a look."

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HTML5, Goo Technologies, Angry Birds investor

The siren song of HTML5 has lured Goo Technologies and Angry Birds investor | GamesBeat: " . . . The technology is based on HTML5, the lingua franca of the web. Another technology, WebGL, has been created to accelerate the performance of HTML5 programs so that they can run fast enough on the web. With both technologies together, Goo Technologies hopes to create cool 3D games that are instantly playable, with no need for browser plug-ins. And that is promising enough for Goo Technologies to raise seed money from Hed, the chairman of Rovio, and his investment firm Moor. . . ."

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When Lousy Code Strikes

When Lousy Code Strikes, Google Dispatches Its Elite 'Gopher Team' | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: " . . .The problem was the software underpinning the file server system was more than five years old. It had simply languished. “If code doesn’t receive constant love it turns to sh_t,” Fitzpatrick said. The original C++ code wasn’t well documented, its automated tests weren’t up to snuff and no one really knew how it was supposed to work. People kept making incremental changes, resulting in a patchwork programmers refer to as “spaghetti code.” The unreliability was driving the server operations team crazy, but no one had time to rewrite something that technically worked. So Fitzpatrick volunteered to do it. That’s the kind of thing he does at Google, where he’s part of an team of about 25 engineers creating a custom programming language called Go. . . ." (read more at link above)

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Atlanta tech promoter Larry Williams is Miami's new Beacon Council president

Good news for tech in Miami -- Larry Williams, who currently runs the technology arm of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and has worked in economic development in Washington state and North Carolina, was named new president of Miami-Dade's Beacon Council on Friday. (source: MiamiHerald.com ; see also Beacon Council taps Atlanta economic development expert Larry K. Williams as CEO - South Florida Business Journal )

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Android 4.3, Updated Developer Tools

Good news from Google--

Android 4.3 and Updated Developer Tools | Android Developers Blog: " . . . Check out the Android 4.3 platform highlights for a complete overview of what’s new for developers. To read more about the new APIs and how to use them, take a look at the API Overview or watch the new DevBytes videos. Along with the new Android 4.3 platform we’re releasing an update to the Android NDK (r9). The new NDK gives you native access to the OpenGL ES 3.0 APIs and other stable APIs in Android 4.3, so if you use high-performance graphics in your games or apps, make sure to check it out. Last, we’ve updated the Android Support Library (r18) with several key APIs to help you build great apps with broad compatibility. Most important, we've added an Action Bar API to let you build this essential Android design pattern into your app with compatibility back to Android 2.1. For apps targeting RTL languages, there's a new BidiFormatter utility you can use to manage RTL strings with compatibility back to Android 2.1. Also, watch for a new RenderScript feature coming soon that will let you take advantage of hardware-accelerated computation with compatibility back to Android 2.2. You can get started developing and testing on Android 4.3 right away, in Android Studio or in ADT/Ant. You can download the Android 4.3 Platform (API level 18), as well as the SDK Tools, Platform Tools, and Support Library from the Android SDK Manager."

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UK Mobile Gaming Landscape

Mobile Gaming Trends - UK Insights

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Innovation Nation (Video)

U.S.A.: Innovation Nation: Video - Bloomberg: "July 26 (Bloomberg) -- On today's "Insight & Action," Adam Johnson looks at innovative companies in the U.S. on Bloomberg Television's Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg)"

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Google Play game services on Android

Google trumpets early success of Play game services on Android | GamesBeat: "The search company may be late when it comes to developing a game network, but it clearly sees the value of games on mobile devices. Games, more than any other category of apps, drive revenue on the Apple App Store or Google Play. That Google is putting so much effort into convincing developers to adopt its services by trotting out these early success stories is proof that it gets how important gaming is. This is good for gamers and good for developers."

More info:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/07/unlocking-more-users-with-tablets-and.html

http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/spotlight/games.html

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Android fragmentation and hack journalists

Android Fragmentation? No problem! That's another way of saying how successful and dominating Android has become. Nonetheless hack journalists are out there writing with dismay about "Android fragmentation" and having not a clue what they are talking about--is "android fragmentation" a problem? No. Here's one developer's take (full article at link, excerpt follows)--

My argument for ending the Android Fragmentation talk once and for all: "...seriously, how on Earth are we talking about fragmentation when an app runs as well on a 1.6″ 220X176 display as on a 2560X1600 10.1″ display?. . ."

Why are we talking about fragmentation? Because know-nothing "journalists" have to write about "something" even when they don't have a clue what they are writing about.

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Business Brothers, Horse Racing, Online (Video)

Business Brothers Look to Cash in on Horse Racing: Video - Bloomberg: "July 26 (Bloomberg) -- DerbyJackpot.com Co-Founders Walter Hessert and Tom Hessert discuss their online ideas for horse racing with Carol Massar on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg)"

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World of Warcraft loses 600000 subscribers

Game over? 'World of Warcraft' loses 600,000 subscribers | Fox News: " . . . Despite the steady decline, World of Warcraft is still easily the world's most popular MMOG (massively multiplayer online game). A new in-game store, announced earlier this month and allowing players to buy extra items, may also help shore up subscriber numbers. Some paid-for online titles have struggled over the last year and dropped their subscription fees, casting doubt over the future of the business model. Star Wars: The Old Republic was the most notable casualty. Reported to have cost several hundred million dollars to produce, it became free to play in November 2012. World of Warcraft's subscriber figures come as Activison Blizzard revealed it is to go independent and buy $8 billion shares from its owner, French media giant Vivendi. . . ." (read more at link above)

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