Angry Birds may be old news (and frankly, a bit long in the beak) but that doesn’t mean Rovio Mobile is going 100% with their latest hit, “Amazing Alex”, and leaving their original hit in the dust. According to The Next Web, Rovio Mobile will be launching another specially themed Angry Birds game dubbed “Angry Birds Heikki”. The only thing we know at this point is that there is an (obvious) heavy emphasis on racing as well as some kind of...
There are many things we’d love to see changed in iOS; the lockscreen, springboard, folder management, app management, UI colors, and plenty of other small areas could use some freshening up. New paint is always a good thing. And while there are what seems like an infinite amount of iOS concepts/tweaks floating around the internet, only a small percentage ever make it to a stage that we’d consider as good enough for Apple to legitimately “adopt”. One...
Popular multi-platform, multi-IM chat app, Nimbuzz, is wondering down a new road today with the announcement of their “Chat Buddy Developers Program”. The program, combined with the opening of Nimbuzz’s messenger API, is a move by the company to better cater to 3rd party companies and help them gain access to a claimed 90+ million Nimbuzz users. A few of the companies whom Nimbuzz has already worked with include Twitter (tweeting within Nimbuzz),...
One of Samsung’s many (and rushed) announcements at their Galaxy S III unveil last week included Flipboard, a popular news gathering app that has already found a decent following on iOS. What was surprising, however, is that Samsung’s unveil also stated that the company had an early exclusive on the Android version of the app. Luckily for the rest of you non-Galaxy S III owners, XDA’s fanbase of talented hackers has already managed to rip that .apk out of...
Your AT&T coverage within a large city might confuse you; towers are everywhere and yet performance is less than desirable. Well, besides playing havoc on wireless signals thanks to copious amounts of concrete and metal, cities also contains lots of people…data sucking people. Today at CTIA AT&T executive vice president of technology and network operations, John Donovan, announced plans to further bolster their increasingly stressed inner-city networks with...
