11/23, 2:30am
App hosts dozens of games for monthly fee
Seattle-based game marketing and hosting service Big Fish Games has told Bloomberg it has won approval from Apple to sell games via a monthly subscription on the iPad, the first time any game publisher has been able to offer such a service. The new app would work like digital magazine apps or the Netflix streaming application, with subscribers getting unlimited access to dozens of games from within a single app.
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12/31, 8:05pm
First Look: BusySync
Apple's .Mac is a service based on a paid yearly subscription of $100. It offers users many different functions, such as calendar and mail syncing, backup, email, online storage, among others. Many users only require one portion of the service, however, and can not justify the yearly cost for things that they feel they have no use for. BusyMac looks to address one of those needs with BusySync, an application that is designed to synchronize iCal calendars across a local area network. This makes it an idea candidate for office situations, since the one-time cost of the application (minus any major version upgrades in the future) is more manageable than maintaining several yearly subscriptions.
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