In 2008, a seemingly massive 56 million people said they played a video game at least one hour per month. In 2011, that number is 135 million, and these figures are only representative of the US. And you know what the population of the US is, right? Around 307 million, In other words, around 44% of the entire country is now a gamer, a number that would probably near 50% if you took out newborns and others without the capacity to play video games.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 8, 2012
Zdravstvuj everyone! Especially our Russian friends. Yes, that weird word at the beginning of this post is "hello" in Russian, and is the perfect segue into our first story on today's evening wrap-up: Siri may get Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Russian language support in March. As we all know, Siri won't rest until she's taken over the entire world. That's something to worry about, but luckily the privacy issues people had with the iPhone's Path won't be. A Path update went live today to try to resolve the problem.
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Path iPhone update live, “fixes” privacy issue
Today there's been a bit of controversy surrounding the Path app for iPhone and how it gains access to your contacts without asking you permission to do so. While its customary for such requests to go down with most major apps and is required by every single app in, for example, the Android Marketplace, it's only today become an issue for Path developers. Per the public's request though, and not a moment too soon, Path's Dave Morin has let loose an apology as well as an update to the app live in the iTunes App Store now.
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G-Form X Protect iPhone 4/4S case revealed, survives 82 mph slapshot
The folks at G-Form have brought the fury once more with a brand new case for Apple devices, this time not protecting the iPad, but the iPhone 4/4S instead, and their first death-defying test is in the hockey arena. The test you're about to see shows off the power of protection in the G-Form X Protect case as a hockey superstar takes a nice couple of cracks at it with his stick. As the video will show, this is no joke when it comes to breaking and smashing - 82 mph hits with a blunt object don't exactly fare well normally one a device like the iPhone.
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Vonage Mobile app undercuts Skype by 30%
Vonage has cranked up its challenge to Skype, with a new Vonage Mobile app for iOS and Android that promises free app-to-app calls and 30-percent cheaper VoIP than its well-known rival. In fact, voice calls using the Vonage Mobile app are supposedly 70-percent less than "major mobile carriers" the company claims, with in-app payments to add credit.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 7, 2012
Hey lovebirds - it's just one week until Valentine's Day. If you don't know what to get for that special someone, here's a story for you - Nokia Lumia 800 coming to the US on February 14. But if you're not the romantic type, there was still news to be had today. For example, Windows fans may be interested to know that Windows 8 ARM version may still include a desktop mode.
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TechNet study shows App Economy one gigantic job creator
The bipartisan organization of top technology executives known as TechNet has recently found that jobs that fall under the "App Economy" umbrella number in the six digits: 466,000 people in the USA alone. This study concludes that software applications for smartphones, tablets, and Facebook combined have created nearly 500,000 new jobs in the United States since 2005. This rapid increase of jobs from this environment spells good news for the technology world and especially the mobile world where app creation reigns supreme.
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StatCounter says 8.5% of Internet usage comes from mobile
A new study from research group StatCounter has found that 8.5% of the world's Internet usage comes from a mobile device. And when StatCounter says "mobile" device, they're talking about the purest form - cell phones only. Tablets were not included in the data. So the question is - is this a big number or should it be bigger? The answer is pretty obvious when you look at how the stats have changed over the last couple years.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 6, 2012
As we begin the first full week of February, we saw a decent news day but one of the coolest things we saw was this - Google HUD Smart Glasses described as Oakley clone, Google X tie-in. Yep, these glasses are equipped for the future. And speaking of future changes, the service you know as the PlayStation Network is soon to be renamed the Sony Entertainment Network.
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iPhone 4S Spigen GLAS.t and Ultimate Class Screen Protector Review
Amongst the many different brands of protectors of the displays of the Apple iPhone line there is one, just one, that provides an entire extra layer of real tempered glass – Spigen. In the Spigen GLAS.t and the Ultimate Class Screen Protector you’ll find two of their solutions made entirely of glass and an ultra-thin impossible to see adhesive. Once you see how perfectly natural these bits of glass are working with the iPhone 4S, you’ll wonder why you’d not tried it on before yourself.
Blackberry getting dumped by Haliburton for iPhone
RIM may be facing another blow in the enterprise arena that it once dominated. According to a leaked memo obtained by AppleInsider, Haliburton, the world's largest energy service company, is reportedly planning to transition its employees away from BlackBerry devices to iPhones. The transition is expected to roll out in phases over the next two years.
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iPhone 4S A5 processor packs custom Siri “ears” chip
Apple's refusal to put its Siri voice control system on the iPhone 4 is not a shameless play to persuade users to upgrade to the 4S, it's suggested, but a limitation of the Apple A5 chip found inside the newest iOS smartphone. The A5, Linley Group analyst Linley Gwennap says, was always too large simply to accommodate two Cortex A9 CPUs and a GPU, CNET reports; the extra bulk is to house an on-chip noise-reduction system sourced from specialists Audience, which revealed its deal with Apple last month.
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