In one corner, we’ve got a spry, 1m robot, prone to floating like a butterfly and doing its damnedest to sting like a bee; in the other, a medium-sized Japanese pro wrestler in shiny silver short shorts. WHO WILL WIN?!
So, reason Apple paid $US85 million for Lala is because they were stealing it from Google. Which is like payback, because Google stole Admob from Apple, and oh, lordee is this fight gruesome.
Own a Blackberry? Want to buy apps from a dedicated app store rather than disparate sites all over the Interwebs? Well you’re in luck, because RIM has today launched the BlackBerry App World for Aussie BlackBerry owners… Only eight months after it launched in the US, Canada and the UK.
If you eat nothing but Kangaroo and Emu meat, cry every time you hear Waltzing Matilda at a Wallabies match (and not because you’re sick of hearing John Williamson try and counter the Haka with a song about a criminal for the fifty billionth time) and named your kids “Ozzy” and “Oy”, then you’ll appreciate the fact that some Aussie developers have banded together to offer some awesome savings on their iPhone apps.
Some call it science. I call it witchcraft. But this “Magnetic” Vase, $US40, defies nature by standing tall when it should submit to “gravity.” I’m buying four just to melt them down. [ThinkGeek]
