Posts Tagged ‘windows marketplace

Apologizes to Impulse, Direct2Drive and the other PC gaming digital distribution platforms, but Valve’s Steam has been the online store for PC gamers who want to download their gaming goodness…. Go to Source

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today. Major Networks Block Programming on Google TV ABC, CBS and NBC are preventing Google from displaying their programming [...]

On November 15 Microsoft will launch Games for Windows Marketplace, an online store that will let users buy digital copies of games directly from the browser. Besides online access from any computer, key features of the store are “ultra-fast” downloads, search by titles or by genres, clean navigation as well as deals and discounts, including [...]

Don’t you love those trialware crap programs that have come preloaded on new PCs for years? Well, expect to start seeing them on your mobile phone, as the market researchers at iSuppli say that preloaded mobile phone software will become a bigger and bigger business, reaching (in their estimate) $7.7 billion in revenues by 2014. [...]

Groupon is a website that offers daily deals based on a user’s location. It has recently acquired Mob.ly, a mobile recommendation service. This new acquisition prepares Groupon for its next growth stage to expand it presence in the mobile media space. The Chicago-based company also has opened a new office in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley. [...]


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