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Twitter Mobile Designer Unimpressed With Facebook's "New" App
Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 3:08pm | 135Read More...Facebook launched the latest iteration (version 3.5) of its iOS app Wednesday only to encounter criticism from social networking's second most popular site – Twitter. Facebook's new status and photo update interface is not as new as expected by the social networking community. The interface...
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TechCrunch Leaks Turntable.fm iPhone App
Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 2:09pm | 199Read More...According to TechCrunch, music social network Turntable.fm is expected to go mobile next week with its own Apple iOS app. Turntable.fm allows its users to upload songs and play music from the site's database in virtual rooms where they act as DJs. Only five DJs can spin in a room, but other users...
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Samsung Gets its Chat On with ChatON
Monday, August 29, 2011 - 2:17pm | 296Read More...Galaxy S II details may be coming tomorrow, but that's not the only announcement the company is making this week. In addition to the long-awaited smartphone, Samsung is prepping a new cross-platform mobile chat service called ChatON. According to TechCrunch, the service is expected to launch in...
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Reality Check for Nintendo Investors: iPhone Development is Never Going to Happen, Would Kill the Stock
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 1:12pm | 524Read More...Small short-term gains, massive long-term losses. Bloomberg is reporting that Nintendo investors are increasingly unhappy with Nintendo, a company that is determined to stick to its tried-and-true business model of making games exclusively for its own devices. This strategy is nothing new;...
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Nintendo Admits Defeat, Lowers Nintendo 3DS Price to $169.99 as Apple Enthusiasts Proclaim Victory
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 1:31pm | 1148Read More...Nintendo truly is its own worst enemy. At around three in the morning, Nintendo (NTDOY) announced what may be the fastest price drop in video game history: starting August 12, the company will shed $80 off the MSRP of the embattled Nintendo 3DS, bringing the new price to a respectable $169.99....
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Four Ways Apple Could Spend $80 Billion
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 5:17pm | 1540Read More...With nearly $80 billion in cash, the Mac maker has plenty of spending money. But how should it be used? Around the offices at Benzinga, some have said (perhaps jokingly) that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) should attempt to cure cancer to keep Steve Jobs alive. Obviously that's not going to happen. I don't...
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Is Nintendo Smart to Ditch Smartphones?
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 2:46pm | 932Read More...Contrary to popular belief, Super Mario and Angry Birds are not the same. Last week, Nintendo made it crystal clear that it does not have any plans to develop for the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone or Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android platforms. This news came as a shock to some. “If Nintendo was...

