Zoopla Brings AR House-Hunting App To Android

By On January 17, 2011 · 1 Comment

Zoopla has published an Android version of its augmented reality house-hunting app for iPhone. Users can switch on their smartphone’s camera, let the phone detect their current location, then watch the screen fill up with data regarding available homes and apartments nearby. The Zoopla app can also display information about a location’s history and price. [...]

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Engage Digital Wrap-Up For The Week Of January 15, 2011

By On January 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of January 15, 2011. The Wrap-Up is where Engage Digital spotlights stories that we didn’t get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the business of user engagement. Buffalo Wild Wings Gets Interactive With SCVNGR Promo: SCVNGR is launching a basketball-themed promo with [...]

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Pocket Gems Announces First “Multi-Million” Month

By On January 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Recently-funded mobile social developer Pocket Gems (formerly Streetview Labs) has announced its first “multi-million” dollar month of revenue. Pocket Gems says its games were installed 2.5 million times in the past month, bringing the company’s total download count to over 18 million. The company expects to hire an additional 40 people by the end of [...]

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Verizon To Begin Selling iPhone 4 In February

By On January 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Verizon Wireless announced today that it will begin selling a 3G CDMA version of the iPhone 4 on February 10. Verizon intends to sell two different iPhone 4 models, a 16GB model for $199.99 and a 32GB model for $299.99. The Verizon iPhone 4 will be identical to its AT&T counterpart in terms of features, [...]

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Lakoo To Launch Freemium MMO On iPhone

By On January 10, 2011 · 1 Comment

Lakoo has announced the launch of its freemium MMORPG for iPhone, Empire Online, in English for North America on January 15. Lakoo says that Empire Online is the most popular iPhone MMORPG in Asia. Empire Online serves over 5 million users worldwide, in territories including Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, and Australia. Empire Online focuses on [...]

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Flogs Launches Location-Based Flogs Live App

By On January 4, 2011 · 1 Comment

Dutch digital calendar service Flogs has launched Flogs Live, an iPhone app that features location-based and gamification features. The app is designed to help users add events to a calendar, then share the events with friends. Users can check-in at events and compete to become the app’s “Biggest Fan” of certain brands and events, similar [...]

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Engage Digital Wrap-Up For The Week Of December 23, 2010

By On December 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of December 23, 2010. The Wrap-Up is where Engage Digital spotlights stories that we didn’t get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the business of user engagement. This will be Engage Digital’s last news post of the year. We will return to [...]

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Angry Birds Update Adds “Mighty Eagle”

By On December 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Rovio has pushed out an update to the original Angry Birds, version 1.5, which includes 15 new Western-themed levels and the game’s first in-app microtransaction, the Mighty Eagle. It should be noted that version 1.5 of Angry Birds is distinct from the “Angry Birds Seasons” version of the game, which receives level packs themed around [...]

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SGN’s MiniTycoon Casino Acquires 600K Users On iPhone

By On December 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment

SGN‘s first foray into mobile social gaming, MiniTycoon Casino for the iPhone, has acquired 600,000 users and become the top social game in the App Store. SGN says that MiniTycoon casino players have banked nearly 300 billion chips, sent over 400,000 virtual gifts, and collectively logged over 8 years worth of play time since the [...]

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Quest Visual Launches New AR Translation Tech

By On December 20, 2010 · 1 Comment

Quest Visual has launched a new augmented reality app for iPhone, Word Lens, that applies AR tech to machine translation. Using the app, users can view a street sign in a particular language through their smartphone’s camera and see a translation of the sign. Word Lens will match fonts and erase the original text from [...]

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