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Iran’s “Twitter Revolution?”

Posted in Mobiles, Virtual Life on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The social network Twitter was asked by the US government to delay a planned outage in order to allow Twitter users in Iran to report on events taking place following the recent controversial election. Dubbed the “Twitter Revolution,” Iran’s government attempted a total media shutdown but cell phone owners have been able to send tweets [...]

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Sims 3 iPhone Debut

Posted in Games, Mobiles on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

EA Games is now shipping a iPhone version of its popular The Sims 3 game. The game takes full advantage of the iPhone’s multi-touch screen capabilities allowing players to change views with ease.

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Bobba: A New Virtual World For Phones

Posted in Business, Mobiles, Virtual Worlds, tagged , , , , , on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Sulake is an online entertainment company focused on virtual worlds and social networking. Currently these properties include virtual world Habbo and social networking service IRC-Galleria. However, the company has just announced a beta-test version of a new virtual world, Bobba, designed for mobile phones.
Currently it is available for a number of Nokia phones but an [...]

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Virtual Cities On An iPhone™

Posted in Mobiles, Virtual Worlds, tagged , , , , on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

RayGun™ is promoted as the first application to provide what the creators, Planet 9 Studios, call “Social Navigation.” It combines GPS tracking, route finding, friend finding and social networking functions all within a state of the art 3D interface. Developed originally for Boeing and the US Army, RayGun is robust and scalable. Users and their [...]

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