David K 
To all the Time Warner customers out there, you’ve got an app. With some caveats you can play 32 channels of streaming tv. Of course, you need to be a Time Warner customer with a basic cable plan and you need to connect over wifi over a Time Warner network (so at work you cannot … Read more
Elbert Perez, who Microsoft has named “the dean of Windows Phone indie game developers” is now seeing a staggering 2 million ad impressions per month. This is an aggregate of all 9 of his games, most of which you’ve probably played already, and all of which we’ve mentioned on this site. They are: Blackboard Gems … Read more
Google just revamped their search app for iPhone with a new look and new features. here’s how they state it: If you need to do a Google search on your iPhone or iPod touch it’s now faster and easier when you use our redesigned Google Search app, formerly Google Mobile App. If you’ve been using … Read more
This Bloomberg story about the Zune hardware being discontinued by Microsoft contains an interesting statement. First off, if you haven’t read it, the claim is that there will not be a new hardware iteration of Zune from Microsoft. Why? “Microsoft will concentrate on putting Zune software onto mobile phones, such as those running its Windows … Read more
I took a few shots when I said that gaming consoles were in trouble as mobile device gaming continues to pick up steam and you can play on large screens. Well here are some videos of an iPad 2 on a 50” screen and you can see how this is already a legitimate console replacement … Read more
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Krashlander for Windows Phones and since the free/ad supported version has been released it’s shot up to 14th in all games and 29th for all apps even though it was only released on February 23. It’s already exceeded 1,000,000 ad impressions though. Beyond that, it’s showing … Read more
As we’ve been discussing, Twitter has been pushing new techniques to get revenue out of the site, including the #dickbar, of course, and now it seems like they’re clamping down on third party Twitter apps. We’ve seen them go after a few specific Twitter clients in the past but their rhetoric is getting blunter. Apparently, … Read more
Herm’s Software has ported over Paper Toss from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone and I must say, it’s been improved quite a bit. The graphics are really sharp and the physics are great on it. Oh yeah, and it’s free (with ads at top but that doesn’t impact game play). In fact, it has only … Read more
Microsoft has added Pex4Fun to the Marketplace and it’s a game based around writing proper code: Win points by writing code! You earn points when your code computes the right outputs for all inputs. Pex4fun features a code editor with auto-completion, snippets and background compilation to make programming on the phone a reality. If you … Read more
The XOOM shipped without Flash but Adobe has announced that it will be releasing Flash 10.2 for Honeycomb on March 18 as a free download. They’re calling it a beta release, but isn’t all Flash on a mobile a beta release? You need have have Honeycomb with the 3.0.1 system update for it. As for … Read more
Just over a month ago the Windows Phone Marketplace was treated to an app that has nipples in its image and it’s happened again. It’s called Films and I’m not sure where they’re sourcing their images from…but I presume it’s a selling point for them. Anyway, there was so much noise about how restrictive the … Read more
Pwn2Own had a tremendous start with a MacBook Pro getting exploited in 5 seconds by Charlie Miller who has now walked off with an exploit four years in a row. Just staggering. IE8 and Firefox also fell and Chrome was untouched (the exploit for IE8 is patched in IE9). But moving on to mobility, the … Read more