Posts Tagged ‘ mobile ’

HP To Keep webOS Alive By Making It Open Source

HP To Keep webOS Alive By Making It Open Source

Well, there we have it. After weeks of deliberation, HP CEO Meg Whitman has just announced to all of the company’s employees that HP will make webOS’s underlying code available under an open-source license. Before I go any further, I’d like to take this chance to applaud HP on making the right decision:...

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Happtique Brings Secure, Branded App Stores To Hospitals And Healthcare

Happtique Brings Secure, Branded App Stores To Hospitals And Healthcare

Just as consumers are adopting smartphones (to the tune of 84 million in the U.S. ) and tablets at a breakneck pace, an increasing number of clinicians, healthcare administrators and staff are using mobile devices to manage patient care, communicate within the workplace, and carry out their day to day work. Nearly 80...

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Japan’s GREE To Challenge Facebook And Zynga As Global Social Gaming Platform In 2012

Japan’s GREE To Challenge Facebook And Zynga As Global Social Gaming Platform In 2012

Japanese mobile social gaming giant and Openfeint owner GREE has outlined today its previously announced plan to launch a mobile social gaming network for the global market next year. Details are (relatively) scarce at this point, but the publicly traded company (current market cap: US$7.5 billion) seems to be serious in positioning itself...

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Nextpeer’s Public Launch Brings Live Multi-Player Tournaments To Any Game

Nextpeer’s Public Launch Brings Live Multi-Player Tournaments To Any Game

Today, the new multi-player gaming service Nextpeer is exiting its private beta period and is now available for all iOS developers to try. With the company’s software development kit (SDK), game developers can easily turn their single player games into social, real-time, multi-player tournaments where users compete against each other for top scores,...

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iRobot, Makers Of The Roomba, Launch An iOS Game?

iRobot, Makers Of The Roomba, Launch An iOS Game?

Every once in a while, a pitch hits our collective TechCrunch inbox that is equally ridiculous and intriguing. In a situation like that — one full of hilarity and intrigue — how can we not post it? That said, I really don’t know what’s going on over at iRobot, as the makers of...

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