You may remember a story that emerged at the start of this month which claimed that Bill Gates bought Windows Surfaces for his kids for Christmas, instead of the Macs and iPads they asked for. According to the UK’s Radio 4, his wife said the following in an interview at the time: (Asked whether her kids ask for Apple products)“of course they ask (…)…
TiP Daily Jan 7, 2013: A few awesome iAccessories hit the web after appearing at this year’s CES, Angry Birds saw a huge jump in downloads this Christmas, and more! – Angry Birds download jump: http://tinyurl.com/bz8yqd6 – Endliss Smartcase: http://tinyurl.com/bjswm2y – Scratch 2 Go: http://tinyurl.com/bgr93yg – Follow me on…
Angry Birds is undoubtedly the most recognizable franchise in the smartphone gaming world. You’ll struggle to find anyone who hasn’t heard of it or even played it. Across all platforms, and all versions, Rovio has experienced well over 1 billion downloads of the hit game since its iOS release back in 2009. In-fact, the iconic app is so popular that it…
TiP Daily Jan 4, 2013: Rumors circulate that Apple is working on a streaming radio service to compete with Pandora and Spotify, the jOBS movie will hit theaters April 2013, and more! – WalMart, Best Buy drama: http://tinyurl.com/a7dqayg – iRadio speculation: http://tinyurl.com/ahefvyr – jOBS release date: http://tinyurl.com/aeuqpqg – Follow…
Bill Gates created a decent amount of hatred and anger towards him over the holiday season this year. Not because of Microsoft itself or indeed any of his business endeavors. No, everyone is so annoyed with Mr. Gates because of the gifts he gave to his kids for Christmas this year. Perhaps a petty spark for an argument, but it does raise a good question…
I love Christmas. For me, it’s about spending time with family that I rarely get to see anymore and eating good food. I have to say though, when I was younger, it was almost certainly more about the presents under the tree. I was never lucky enough to get a $500 smartphone, but I do remember getting some pretty awesome Transformers and Scalextrics…
Tons of lucky people unwrapped shiny new iOS devices on Christmas morning, but new iOS customers weren’t the only ones having a good Christmas. The guys over at Apple had stuff to rejoice about as well, seeing as App Store downloads increased 87% and revenue jumped another 70%. This data comes from an analytics firm called Distimo, which also claims…
The casual game that went viral at its release, Temple Run, saw an astounding number of downloads on Christmas day, at an amount of 2.5 million. This coming from Imangi Studios founder, Keith Shepard. If you’ve never played Temple Run, it’s very Indiana Jones-esque, as you are collecting coins while running away from some sort of gorilla-like animals. I…
Sales of nigh on everything go through the roof during the holidays, so the news that Christmas Day this year has brought with it a vast amount of smartphone and tablet activations – a record 17.4 million, in-fact – is hardly unexpected. Nevertheless, the numbers are impressive, especially considering that the number of Android and iOS activations is up by…
Twitter user, @waxpancake has tweeted the image above after doing a little research. A 24-hour sample of peoples “first tweet from ” from Christmas Eve this year suggest that iPads were found under way more trees than any other tablet. In the one day period almost 1,800 tweets were sent from an iPad of some form. Its nearest competitor was the Amazon…
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