Posted by Alexander Bader on Oct 8, 2011 As part of a continuous effort to reduce its reliance on Samsung for product components, Apple is now purchasing a large portion of its flash memory from Japanese manufacturers, according to DigiTimes. Citing multiple industry sources, Digitimes noted that Apple has been increasing its DRAM and NAND flash chipset orders from Japanese manufacturers.  Apple will rely on Elpida...

Posted by Jason Dunning on Oct 2, 2011 Viking vs. Chickens is a game from Uplay Mobile Entertainment. The premise of the game is that you are a Viking on a small plain that has to go and collect chickens eggs while dodging attacking chickens. You compete to get a high score while just dodging chickens and collecting eggs… That’s it. All you do in the game is control the Viking either using a virtual...

Posted by Jason Dunning on Oct 1, 2011 Flip Ship from ByteSize Games is what you would get if Ikaruga and Geometry Wars had a baby. You use the color system of Ikaruga set on a flat 2D Geometry Wars like surface. While it does have its issues, Flip Ship is definitely worth a download. The color system that Ikaruga employed was that you could hit a button and change from black to white and vice versa. Each color would...

Posted by Jason Dunning on Sep 29, 2011 Where’s My Water is a very deceptive game. When I first saw it in the app store, I saw that it was made by Disney and that it starred an alligator. I definitely wasn’t expecting much because a puzzle game with a harmless looking alligator from Disney seemed like something I wouldn’t be interested in. Then I booted up the game and it quickly became one of the...

Posted by John Madison on Sep 28, 2011 Montreal, Canada – Montreal based mobile software firm eMobiSoft Inc. announced today the launch of their physics strategy / puzzle game Troll Blaster for Apple iOS devices. The game enters the popular projectile destruction genre of gameplay in which the player fires a strategically selected weapon onto a structure containing evil trolls. Players progress by killing all...

Posted by Alexander Bader on Sep 26, 2011 According to CNN, Apple has shipped more than nine thousand refurbished iPads to Teach For America. Teach For America, a nonprofit organization based in New York, plans to distribute the tablets to teachers nationwide for classroom use. Cook mentioned Apple’s plans to “kick off a matching gift program for charitable donations” within an internal memo earlier this...

Posted by Alexander Bader on Sep 26, 2011 An Apple board member says we’ll see new the iPhone 5 iPhone next month, seemingly confirming what previous rumors have already indicated. Former United States Vice President Al Gore, who joined the board in 2003, told Discovery Invest Leadership Summit attendees that new iPhone models would be arriving in October, according to a journalist who was present at the...

Posted by Alexander Bader on Sep 26, 2011 The launch date of the much-anticipated iPhone 5 has been widely speculated on for months, but consensus rests on late September/early October. In line with these rumors, today AllThingsD are reporting that the iPhone 5 media event will be happening on the 4th of October. While Apple could certainly change its plans anytime, sources said that the October 4 date has been selected by...