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Entries for July, 2011

Interview with Korean online game company ALT1′s development team (makers of Troy Online)

ALT1 is one of the most noteworthy online game development companies in Korea. They developed Twelve Sky 1 and 2. AVING found ALT1 displaying their newest game, F2P MMORPG TROY Online, at a scheduled open beta test event in August. ALT1 Games, the American arm of Korean gaming company ALT 1, has released two games [...]

Apple iPhone shipments surge 142%, IDC says

Research firm IDC released its latest Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker report on Thursday and revealed that shipments of Apple’s iPhone jumped 142% over the same period last year. Samsung’s shipments rose 10% year-over year, ZTE saw a 36% increase in shipments and LG’s shipments dropped 18.9%. The entire mobile phone market grew 11.3% year-over-year, but [...]

Senator supports online sales tax reform

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Cash-strapped states seeking to collect billions in taxes from online transactions gained an ally in Washington on Friday when a senator introduced a bill for a federal solution to the problem. Original post by Soulskill

HTC, Samsung and LG prepping Windows Phone Mango devices for September

HTC, Samsung and LG are poised to launch new Windows Phone Mango devices in September, DigiTimes reported on Friday. HTC’s handsets will be equipped with displays sized between 3.8-inches and 4.7-inches and will be powered by Qualcomm CPUs clocked at 1.5GHz. We’re expecting at least two of HTC’s new phones to be the Ignite and the [...]

Samsung profit falls 18% in Q2; company to stop reporting smartphone, tablet shipments

Samsung on Friday reported earnings for the second quarter of 2011 that showed a significant decline in profit despite modest revenue gains. Samsung’s revenue ticked up 4% year-over year to 39.44 trillion Korean won but its consolidated net income of 3.51 trillion won was a sharp 18% decline from the same quarter in 2010. The [...]

Hulu sued for patent infringement

A firm named Rovi Corp has filed a complaint with the U.S. District court of Delaware alleging that Hulu infringes on one of its patents. Rovi Corp is not often in the headlines but its client list sports names of big hitter tech firms. Reuters said that Rovi licenses technology to Apple, Comcast and Microsoft and [...]

Yahoo gets short end of stick in Alibaba deal

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc got short-changed — that’s the view of analysts picking apart the complex deal it announced on Friday with Alibaba Group and SoftBank Corp over Chinese e-payments unit Alipay. Original post by Soulskill

Go Thin with the Zeroz Wallet

Lately I have been obsessed with finding cool wallets to show you guys. Today’s contribution is the Zeroz Wallet. Their motto is Less Wallet, More Cool. Basically, the Zeroz is a card holder with a stretchy cash strap secured to one side. They are available in 4 different thickness to accommodate more or less cards. [...]

Anonymous says hacked U.S. government cyber supplier

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hackers with the loose-knit group Anonymous said on Friday they had broken into the network of U.S. government contractor Mantech International Corp and posted some NATO-related correspondence online. Original post by samzenpus

iTunes 11 to feature redesigned layout, iCloud integration according to report

Following our exclusive report from Thursday suggesting Apple plans to release iTunes 11 in September alongside the iOS 5 and iCloud, a new report claims iTunes 11 will feature a redesigned layout and deep iCloud integration. IDownloadBlog on Friday cites a reliable source in stating that the next major release of iTunes will be “revamped from [...]