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FireFox 5 Available Ahead of Official Release Date

FireFox 5 Available Ahead of Official Release Date

Jun 19, 2011

It has been announced this morning that the final version of FireFox 5 is now available for download on Mozilla’s FTP server from its website. The latest version of the FireFox browser offers support for CSS animation and a more easily accessible do-not-track setting, which users can now find at the top of the privacy pane. Users of this popular browser will...

Redbox Announce $2 per Day Video Game Rental Service

Redbox Announce $2 per Day Video Game Rental Service

Jun 19, 2011

Redbox announced that it has added game rentals to its arsenal at rental kiosks across the United States. Video game rentals had been available for a period of time at about 5,000 Redbox kiosks in the US, but this was only a beta phase. The company will now add video games to an additional 16,000 kiosks this month. Popular video game titles will be added to for...

Angry Birds Gets Downloaded More than 1 Million Times a Day!

Angry Birds Gets Downloaded More than 1 Million Times a Day!

Jun 17, 2011

At the Mobile 2.0 Europe – openIDEAS conference held in Europe this week, Rovio’s Peter Vesterbacka confirmed that the hit game, Angry Birds, are now being downloaded more than one million times per day by gamers from around the world. The same statistics have been revealed in October 2010, when the Rovio also announced that the Android version of the game...

Instagram Turns Your Likes into Photo Albums

Instagram Turns Your Likes into Photo Albums

Jun 6, 2011

Social photo app, Instagram has announced a new update for the iPhone. With the new update users will be offered faster upload speeds. There will also be a number of additional features, which include the ability to see photos you have liked in the past. Almost just like a stream of Twitter Tweets, the Instagram feed works like a real-time stream of photos....

3D Tetris for 3DS to be Announced at E3

3D Tetris for 3DS to be Announced at E3

Jun 5, 2011

It is expected that a new 3D version of Tetris will be announced at the upcoming E3 for the Nintendo 3DS console. Tetris was the game that sold the first version of Nintendo’s Game Boy to a mass market of casual gamers back in the early 1990’s. This was, however, not Nintendo’s first try at creating a 3D version of the popular Tetris game. In the mid...

Activision Announce New Call of Duty: Elite Online Service

Activision Announce New Call of Duty: Elite Online Service

May 31, 2011

Game maker, Activision, has announced that it will be launching a new online subscription service, Call of Duty: Elite. The new online service is aimed at tapping the massive online community that the Call of Duty franchise already has. According to Activision, all players will still be able to play multi-player games online, but those signing up to the Call of...