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Each week Tapscape will be bringing you the top 5 viral videos on the web from the Unruly Media Viral Video Chart. With popularity ranked according to the number of Facebook shares, tweets and blogposts, these are the most talked about videos of the past 7 days. This weeks top 5 viral videos feature two [...]
With the huge growth in the smartphone market over the past few years, mobile apps have become seriously big business. Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, just recently announced that the iTunes app store had passed 5 billion downloads at the 2010 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). What probably isn’t as well known is that GetJar, an [...]
Electronic Arts has just announced that the classic board game RISK will be coming to iPhone and iPod Touch this summer. Players will be able to take on advanced AI or challenge up to six friends in a race to rule the world. The original game of global domination, RISK for iPhone will feature a [...]
Price: $2.99 Score: 9/10 Genre: Games Guitar Hero [iTunes link] is one of the most successful console franchises ever made, so naturally, it was only a matter of time before it made its way to the iPhone. Announced yesterday at WWDC, Guitar Hero is now available to download on the app store. While other tap-to-the-rhythm [...]
While it may not quite be the holy savior of Old Media as some would suggest, the iPad still holds a lot of promise for traditional publishers looking to profit from the switch to digital. The iPad provides publishers with a way to directly monetize their content, while also providing consumers with rich and easily [...]
Last month Borders announced the release of the $149 Kobo e-reader that will go head-to-head with the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook. Cementing their strategy of remaining device neutral, Borders have today introduced a new partner, and a new e-reader that will go on sale in stores from early July. Aluratek, the [...]
Price: $9.99 Score: 8/10 Genre: Action Game The 5th game in the Splinter Cell series, Splinter Cell: Conviction is the first of Tom Clancy’s titles to make to it on to the iPhone. Originally released by Ubisoft for the XBox 360, the game has been completely redeveloped by Gameloft with the mobile gamer in mind. [...]
ASUS has jumped headstrong into the emerging tablet market with three new devices, officially unveiled ahead of the Computex Show in Taiwan. In a direct assault on the Apple iPad, ASUS have announced two versions (10 and 12 inch) of the Eee Pad – a fully functional touch-screen tablet PC, loaded with an Intel Core [...]
Announced today in partnership with electronics giants Sony, Logitech and Intel, Google has unveiled a new product that aims to fully integrate television and the internet. It’s not the first time TV and the web have crossed paths, but Google believes that Google TV will be a big step forward for home entertainment; “Google TV [...]
The World Cup is only a few weeks away, and, naturally, there has been a whole crop of World Cup related iPhone apps pop up in the app store in recent months looking to cash in on football fever. FIFA World Cup, from Electronic Arts, is the “official” iPhone game and adds a South African [...]
While it’s already possible for indie writers to self-publish through Amazon, Barnes & Noble – the world’s biggest “physical” retailers – have just announced plans for a new self-publishing service called PubIt! The move is sure to fire up competition, with the service being accessible not just on B&N’s own Nook eReader, but also on [...]
The once water-tight secrecy at Apple now appears to have more holes than a sinking ship. Following the lost/stolen iPhone 4G debacle, new photos and video of the next generation iPod Touch have just surfaced on the same Vietnamese website – Tinhte.vn – that recently posted a hands-on of an alleged 4G prototype. The photos [...]
This new iPad commercial from Apple has clocked up over one million views on YouTube after just one week. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fihOmQY-JxY
Borders is set to challenge the Apple iPad, Amazon.com’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook with their own low cost e-reader, the new $149 Kobo. The Kobo, like the Kindle, is a light-weight device with a 6 inch monochrome e-ink display. This compares with the 9.7 inch full color display on the iPad, which can [...]
Following months of criticism from developers over Apple’s decision to shun Flash support from its mobile devices, Steve Jobs has hit-back at Adobe in an essay posted recently on the Apple website. Escalating the row between the two companies, Jobs stated that “Flash was designed for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers.” [...]
