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Smartphone users could have access to 4G broadband this year
Ofcom to consider licensing deal that would allow Everything Everywhere customers to enjoy super-fast mobile browsing Customers of phone company Everything Everywhere, the largest UK network with 27 million subscribers, will have access to super-fast 4G mobile broadband before the end of the year if regulators grant permission. EE says it wants to put 4G into the hands of its Orange and T-Mobile customers, as well as those of Three, Virgin Media...
Facebook builds European social games team following startups’ success
The rise of Wooga, King.com and Angry Birds is helping drive ‘the third generation’ of the social network’s platform Facebook is creating a dedicated gaming team in Europe, matching the one it has in the US, to work more closely with social games developers across Europe. “In the US, we have a team of engineers, product managers and partnerships folks who only do gaming, from Zynga down to two-person shops
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Author raises $1m to self-publish Order of the Stick webcomic book
Rich Burlew becomes crowdfunding site Kickstarter’s most successful creative project The author of a self-published webcomic about a band of heroes in a fantasy role-playing world has raised more than $1m (£600,000) from fans on “crowdfunding” website Kickstarter to bring his stories back into print, making The Order of the Stick the richest creative work in the crowdfunding site’s history. Author and illustrator Rich Burlew...
Clip joint: Scary toys
Clip joint returns with a plea for clips of your favourite eerie playthings featured on film Welcome back to Clip joint, the finest YouTube-powered collaborative movie clip feature on the known internet. As Clip joint returns after a six week hiatus, we put a call out on Twitter and Facebook asking for suggestions for a new topic. Several of the ideas we received had already been covered in previous outings , but we liked the following from David...
Six smartphone games you MUST download today
Can’t afford a PS Vita? Make yourself feel better with these six excellent mobile titles, all released in the last two months and offering hours of gaming pleasure Yes, it’s PlayStation Vita launch day, and we’ve covered Sony’s lovely, eccentric new machine in quite some detail elsewhere. But if you can’t afford to dish out £230 on a sleek new piece of consumer electronics, there’s no need to feel left out of...
