Independent developers have a finite amount of time in which to put together their smartphone apps, and they obviously want to get the maximum return on their work. Taking their Android apps and porting them across to iOS is certainly a time consuming practice, assuming the particular developer has the technical know-how to do the work.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Ever since Microsoft announced its Kinect peripheral for Xbox 360, the world has both loved it and hated it in equal measure. Sure it's great for getting gamers off the couch and it offers something no other console can - controller-free gaming.
Just when you didn't think Facebook could grow any bigger, Mark Zuckerberg's brainchild is on the verge of hitting the 700 million user mark according to Facebook stat monitoring web site Socialbakers.
We're just days away from this year's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference and as usual the rumor-mill is in full swing. Apple has already confirmed iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion will be shown off at the event's keynote address, along with the much anticipated iCloud service, whatever that may turn out to be. But now we have a whole new rumor, and we like it. We like it a lot!
Apparently not content with releasing a new Call of Duty game on a 12 month cycle, almost guaranteed to bring in billions of Dollars a year, Activision Blizzard will be launching a new paid-for subscription add-on for the mega-bucks franchise, according to the WSJ.
There is nothing more irritating than having your phone spammed by calls from numbers you don't know. Chances are they're either robots asking you automated questions from a list on a questionnaire, or one of the many company's that manage to get hold of the renewal date for your mobile phone. The problem is though, there's only one way to really find out and that means giving the offending number a call back. Not ideal.
Gears of War 3, the final installment of the epic third person shooter from, err, Epic got its first official trailer yesterday - and it promises more exciting chainsaw-gun wielding mayhem than you can shake a sticky grenade at.
Well well well, the whole Apple Vs. Samsung legal debacle just took a turn for the down right strange. According to ThisIsMyNext's Nilay Patel, Samsung's lawyers have asked courts to order Apple to hand over the company's latest iPhone 5 and iPad 3 prototypes so they can check their own hardware doesn't mirror that of hardware coming from Cupertino any time soon.
Is this lovely slab of glass Google's next reference Android handset? If we are indeed looking at the 3rd Nexus phone, it would point to HTC being the manufacturer of choice once more after Google dropped the company it used for the Nexus One in favor of Samsung when it came time to bring the Nexus S into the world. But that isn't the only note-worthy aspect of this leaked photo. Not by a long shot.
We at Redmond Pie are all Google Chrome fans - we just love that silky smooth feel while all the time knowing that beneath that cool exterior is an HTML5 beast just waiting to rip our collective faces off. We also like Mobile Safari on our iPads, but we'd still prefer if Google brought their ever popular desktop webpage viewing magic-bearer to our favorite tablet.
