July, 2011

Developer claims 90 percent of its iOS sales are pirated: Does the App Store have a dirty little secret?With over 17,000 active gamers playing its game ‘Fingerkicks’, software developer Gamized was surprised to see its iTunesConnect purchase report show only 1,163 copies sold. Gamized believes Apple has a major piracy problem on its hands and addressed the Cupertino team by calling the problem “humiliating”.

Gamized enter the app rush producing games for other companies. It was not until earlier this year that it decided to stake its claim with the launch of ‘Fingerkicks’. The soccer game quickly landing more than 17,000 active players after just a few days on the App Store. Under normal circumstances this would signal success.

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You’ve got your PlayBook, now your finances have recovered, what accessories should you be spending on? We’ve rounded up the 10 best, from chargers to give your ‘Book a super boost, to cases that’ll keep it safe when camping or in a war zone. (We’ve got some nice leather ones to make you look good too.)

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It’s Thursday afternoon, we’re on the home straight. But before you start counting down the hours until Friday, have a peek at what’s been happening in the world of tech. Today we bring you news of Amazon’s long awaited tablet, and Sony has an audio device or three to tempt you.

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Remember SeeSaw, the online TV service with oodles of excellent archive content that was resurrected from the corpse of Project Kangaroo? You don’t? We don’t blame you. Despite TV ads promoting the service and stocking its virtual vaults with more than 3,000 hours of shows, the service was on the cusp of closure.

SeeSaw’s owner Arquiva had announced that it would close last month but curiously it stayed open. Now Criterion, the private equity firm that also gobbled up broken social network Bebo, has stepped in to buy 75% of the company.

Reading our SeeSaw first impressions shows how impressed we were with the service’s potential when it arrived back in February 2010. But with BBC, Channel and ITV hard at work on a universal catch up service with YouView, it’s hard to see how the Bebo bunch can save SeeSaw.

Out now | £free | SeeSaw

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Busy morning for Sony, with two new hi-fis outed, and now it’s dropped a brand new Walkman on us. The NWZ-W260 is the latest in the W Series, and so is ideal for getting outdoors with or taking to the gym. It’s wireless, rain- and sweat-proof, and is 25% lighter than its predecessor.

Read on for more, as well as a rather big caveat in Sony’s advice on how to use it.

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A glimpse of what appeared to be the Motorola Xoom 2 popped up on the Motorola site last month. Now more rumours around the Motorola Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablet have emerged. Notebook Italia suggests the new Motorola Android tablet will have a 10in 4:3 screen with a 2048×1536 resolution.

The report claims the Motorola Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablet is already in the hands of testers and is set for launch late this year or early 2012. It’s not clear whether the device will come with the Xoom name slapped on it this time but since Motorola and NVIDIA are very cosy, it’s likely to come with a quad-core Kal El Tegra 3 processor inside.

Out TBC | £TBC | Motorola (via Android Community)

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There’s a new Sony micro hi-fi system in town, and it’s packing AirPlay along with its classic styling. It’s the latest in a long line of AirPlay-capable systems, so read on for a full rundown of our top five.

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FaceTime is set to fly onto your TV screen with iOS 5. iPhone owners playing around with iOS 5 beta 3 have discovered that includes FaceTime AirPlay mirroring.

The feature means with an Apple TV or other AirPlay-enabled device hooked up to the screen in your living room, you’ll be able to beam the image from a FaceTime call to it.

As you can see from the picture above, the VGA resolution of the iPhone 4′s front-facing camera looks a little bit blocky blown up on the big screen but an upgraded sensor for the iPhone 5 could easily fix that. Even without it, using AirPlay to create a FaceTime TV is just really nifty.

Out Autumn | £free | Apple (via TiPB)

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