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Temple Run sprints past a colossal 1 billion downloads

Jun04
by on June 4, 2014 at 12:23 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Temple Run and its sequel have topped an eye-watering 1 billion downloads across all platforms, The Verge reports. The achievement doesn’t include the spin-offs that Imangi Studios developed in partnership with Disney – Temple Run Brave and Temple Run Oz – so total downloads for the franchise will be even higher. It’s a huge milestone and further highlights the massive audience that developers are able to target across smartphones and tablets. Temple Run was one of the first “endless runner” games to hit the mainstream and its reputation alone has ensured its long-tail success. The game (and its numbered sequel)…

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How GitHub rival GitLab is building a business with just 0.1% paying customers

Jun04
by on June 4, 2014 at 12:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Profiles and Interviews

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Long-distance relationships are never easy, but it seems to be less so for the relationships between co-founders of tech companies. Living proof of this are the CEO and CTO of GitLab, which provides a self-hosted open-source collaboration platform intended for software developers. Simply speaking, GitLab is a GitHub that you can install on your own server for free to have full control over your code. GitLab’s author and CTO Dmitriy Zaporozhets lives in the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, while his co-founder and the company’s CEO Sytse Sijbrandij is based out of Utrecht, the Netherlands. This country was where I first met him,…

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Rovio’s Angry Birds Stella spin-off will arrive this fall with a new game, cartoon, toys and more

Jun04
by on June 4, 2014 at 12:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Rovio is readying a multimedia charge for Angry Birds Stella, a new spin-off based on its immensely popular mobile video games. A new title featuring the titular character Stella and her friends Poppy, Willow, Dahlia and Luca will arrive with familiar “slingshot gameplay” in September. The game will be set in a new locale – the treetops of Golden Island – and integrate with a new line of collectible Telepods figures. The game will be supplemented with a 13-episode animated series on ToonsTV, its media streaming service for Samsung smart TVs, Roku streaming deices, the Angry Birds apps and the…

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Relish’s 4G broadband service for Londoners wants to kill line rental once and for all

Jun04
by on June 4, 2014 at 11:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web, UK

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Landline rental is one of the most frustrating aspects of being a broadband customer in the UK. A growing number of people never use a home phone and so the handset sits there in the house – unused or disconnected – as a mere trinket. Relish is a new service that promises “fibre-fast” home broadband using an ultrafast 4G network. The company promises speeds of up to 65Mbps, although CNET reports the average should actually be around 30Mbps. The service is only for Londoners though, and for unlimited data it’ll set you back £20 per month. The router costs £50…

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ITV channels arrive on Sky Go, giving UK subscribers live FIFA World Cup coverage on the move

Jun04
by on June 4, 2014 at 10:56 am
Posted In: Around the Web, UK

Sky is bolstering its internet-based Sky Go service with access to a number of ITV channels. Starting today, subscribers can quickly tune into ITV, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and CITV whether they’re on a smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop PC. ITV is a massive broadcaster in the UK and so its channel line-up should be warmly welcomed by most of Sky Go’s subscribers. In particular, it’ll give viewers access to ITV’s live FIFA World Cup coverage when the high-stakes tournament kicks off in Brazil later this month. Sky Go now supports up to 63 channels and will soon be joined by…

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