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...case in point is the puzzle game Enigmo. Formerly a desktop game developed by Pangea Software of Austin, Texas, it was ported over to the iPhone in May around the time the iTunes App Store launched. Pangea started out selling it for $9.99. "The iPhone App Store has been a textbook example of supply and demand because at first there was a huge demand for the new apps, but there was a very small supply of them - only a few dozen games," founder Brian Greenstone told me. "So we could charge $9.99 easily for them...
...iPhone, but we've already done almost 500,000 just in five months." That's $1.8 million in sales, according to Greenstone. Cro-Mag Rally, another Top 10 title from Pangea, has sold nearly 450,000 copies, he said, adding that he's no longer developing for the Macintosh desktop market and is focusing exclusively on the iPhone...
...perfect tool for taking notes during a class, meeting or interview; it can also save images of the notebook pages you've written on, and all files can be uploaded to a computer via USB, then saved or emailed. On Nov. 24, the company will roll out Livescribe Desktop software for Mac, along with an upgraded Windows version, which includes a new handwriting-to-text translation tool. Speaking of which, the pen's software also includes translations for 21 different words - such as please, coffee, chocolate, water, bananas, beer and thanks - in Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic and Swedish. What else...
...paper deadlines may soon be surprised to find themselves with a few extra minutes on hand. Lamont Library launched a pilot program that allows users to print directly from their laptops last week. Before, students could only print documents on library printers after transferring their them to a Lamont desktop. In order to take advantage of the program, students and others FAS affiliates must first install PaperCut, a printing interface that charges users five cents a page to print. Non-FAS affiliates can also download Pharos Mobile to print for 10 cents a page. The service is currently...
...million or so people who use the free, Web-based word processor or other apps from Google or Zoho, it may seem odd to you that Microsoft is still charging $500 for the full version of its desktop Office suite - and that hundreds of millions of people still pay for it. In fact, last year Microsoft brought in about $19 billion, or just under a third of its total revenue, from the business unit that sells Office. And increased sales of Office, in particular, are credited with helping the Redmond, Wash.-based firm beat analyst estimates for first-quarter earnings...