Filed under: WIRELESS | Tags: Android, App Store, Apple, Electronic Arts, Google, iPhone, iPod Touch, TECHNOLOGY
Check out greenMeter from Hunter Research and Technologies, a new iPhone app that keeps track of your car’s carbon footprint and fuel efficiency. The program uses the device’s internal accelerometer to measure forward acceleration and compute engine power, fuel economy, fuel cost, carbon footprint, and oil consumption. More advanced measurements such as drag coefficient, vehicle pitch and rolling resistance can be calculated using estimates available on the company’s site. (Cynopsis 11/3)
Owners of Apple‘s iPhone and iPod Touch love playing games so much that they have launched them into seven of the top 10 applications downloaded from the App Store. “This was an amazing surprise to us to see how much games have taken off,” said Stan Ng, Apple’s senior director of product marketing. Los Angeles Times (free registration) (11/3)
Electronic Arts, the largest publisher of games for mobile platforms, said revenue related to its wireless business grew 24% in its second quarter from a year earlier, adding that it plans to release an additional 12 mobile games in the current quarter. The company, which said it maintained its earlier annual guidance for its wireless unit, had worse news for its overall business as it reported widening losses and announced layoffs. mocoNews.net (10/31)
Google sent users software Saturday to repair a security flow involving phones equipped with its Android operating system, eight days after the problem became public. The repair, which took a few minutes to download and install, apparently worked flawlessly. CNET (11/1)
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