Compare The Market meerkat gets an iPhone app: iSimples!
The Compare The Market meerkat is cashing in in an inevitable fashion, with his very iSimples iPhone app. What does it do
iPad vs Kindle: Amazon battles publishers over pricing
iPad and its iBooks store are leading Amazon to play hardball in negotiations with publishers. Apple’s plan to allow publishers to choose their price for iBooks destined for the iPad is in direct odds with Amazon’s system where Kindle books are available for a set price. In a report for trade website Publishers Marketplace, Michael Cader suggests that Amazon is threatening to remove publishers from the Kindle ebook store and Amazon as a whole if they insist on pushing for the same flexible pricing deal as Apple is offering for iPad iBooks
First MAG DLC next week
MAG will be getting its first piece of downloadable content next Thursday, on March 25, developer Zipper Interactive’s senior community manager Jeremy Dunham has announced on PlayStation’s official blog . Going under the Trooper Gear Pack name, the content will include the apparently oft-requested flashbang grenade as well as new machine guns and uniforms; not the most ambitious DLC release, but a free one. On the other hand, this is only the beginning of Zipper’s “ongoing commitment” to the title.
Rebellion layoffs confirmed
Aliens vs. Predator developer Rebellion has confirmed the rumored layoffs at their Oxford HQ
Rescheduling meetings made easy
Outside of our Gmail inboxes, we, like many businesses, spend quite a bit of time in meetings – and scheduling and rescheduling meetings. And we know that trying to get a group of people with busy schedules into the same empty conference room at the same time can be quite a challenge
Find out “Why Cloud-Based Security and Archiving Make Sense"
Join the Google Postini team on March 23, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. PDT for a live webinar addressing “Why Cloud-Based Security and Archiving Make Sense.†This interactive session will explore the growing requirements for email security and email archiving and the benefits and cost savings available when companies bring these services to the cloud. Learn about: best-in-class practices, including results from recent research, presented by Michael Osterman, President of Osterman Research Google’s cloud-based enterprise IT solutions, presented by Adam Swidler, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Google The discussion will include a live Q&A session open for audience participation.
EA eyeing two million Star Wars subscribers, pricing model may include “twistsâ€
EA is looking to gain up to two million subscribers for the BioWare-developed Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO, according to Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia. Coming from a recent meeting with EA, the analyst reports that even though the company’s earnings are “somewhat depressed due to ongoing expenses ” of the MMO’s development, “management has high hopes for [the title] and believes 2M+ subs is possible.” A little over a million subscribers is needed to actually break even on the project, Bhatia also reports, but several million is said to be the ultimate goal. The game is expected to launch next spring , but what kind of a subscription model it will go with has not been revealed yet; BioWare’s general manager Ray Muzyka however hints that they may introduce “some twists” to the traditional business model
