Category: Mobile Computing

Rovio reaches out to social media for Angry Brids levels as staff count is reduced

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Let’s play join the dots. Firstly, Rovio costs 16% of the workforce, announced on October 2nd: Unfortunately, we also need to consider possible employee reductions of a maximum of 130 people in Finland (approximately 16% of workforce). Secondly, on October 4th Rovio launch a social media campaign asking the world to create new levels for their hit (only?) franchise Angry Birds Want to help design a level in the Number 1 app of all time? Want millions of people across the world play it? Well this is YOUR chance to #MakeTheNextLevel! …Send us your ideas as sketches, paintings or photos by

Dropbox looking to beat the smartphone incumbents in the cloud storage game

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Buzzfeed (I know…) profiles Dropbox and its quest to stay relevant on mobile while Apple, Google, and Microsoft, look to tie everyone into their respective cloud storage systems: Dropbox will have to prove that the layer of software that sits on top of otherwise “dumb storage” are valuable enough to get customers to pay the company every month. Paying for a mobile utility app is a tough proposition even in the United States, let alone the emerging economies where low-cost Android handset sales are booming. Online storage costs have gone to zero and Dropbox has had to quickly find a future beyond

Paypal Chose Samsung And Apple Threw Its Toys Out Of The Pram

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Apple takes another leaf out of the U2 playbook with Paypal: But while these talks were going on, PayPal went ahead and partnered with Samsung on the Galaxy S5 fingerprint scanner, a move that was reportedly forced onto PayPal by eBay CEO John Donahoe… Apple was said to be absolutely furious that PayPal did the deal with Samsung, which led Apple to cut PayPal out of the Apple Pay process entirely. (One source said: “Apple kicked them out of the door. Apple Pay… “With or Without You.”

Jolla drops the price of their flagship handset

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Nice to see that the Jolla handset has dropped 50 Euros and is down to 350 Euros. The Software has picked up regular updates since the first handsets (including my own) in December 2013. It’s still not as accessible and easy to use as your bog standard PAYG Android handset, but it’s certainly improved. If you’re the sort of person that likes to work with the leading edge, but are not quite ready to hand-roll OS’es or be happy to run a terminal app on your handset at regular intervals, rest assumed the Jolla has moved on from that point.