Who Wants to be a Millionaire 2010 is based on the TV trivia show and challenges you to answer 15 questions of increasing difficulty with the help of four lifelines.
Just like the TV show, answer the question before the clocks runs out and any time remaining gets banked for when you have to answer the million dollar question.
The question is: what are you going to buy with a million virtual dollars?
This week has had some positive stock news for RIM as the S&P/TSX composite index rose 142.25 points, or 1.35%, to 10,673.84, as gainers outpaced losers by a ratio of nearly seven-to-one and nine of 10 subindexes closed in positive territory.
Technology stocks, which account for less than 5% of the total index, rose 3.92% as a group, getting a boost from Research in Motion Ltd., up 4.3%, after RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky raised his price target on RIM from US$100 to US$150.
Today, Berry Wars by Epic Applications is on sale for $2.00 (normally $3.99). The game is based on the incredibly popular Dope Wars, an online game where you play the role of a drug dealer.
Aloqa, is a location based service that integrates content from 15 publishers including Yelp, Eventful and Craigslist. The beta, originally available for Android, is now available for for the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and the Bold 9000.
The app helps BlackBerry users in that it takes away the need to find information via the browser and it proactively pushes out recommendations about social network friends nearby and interesting local opportunities to users on the go. These are all qualities of a good LBS app.
Their are also some bright minds behind this app. The company is headed by CEO Sanjeev Agrawal, former Global Head of Google Product Marketing and subsequently VP Products at TellMe Networks (acquired by Microsoft).
Simon Sage was good enough to point out that around 6 months ago Mike Kirkup confirmed Flash would find its way to BlackBerry sooner or later and while it’s interesting that Silverlight will be part of the equation, the idea that Flash will come to BlackBerry in around a year can be easily deduced from simply keeping up with the industry.
The news is likely based on an inside tip relating to the known fact that RIM is planning on updating its BlackBerry Browser in order to be more competitive with the other smartphones in the market. This is common knowledge as anyone following the industry knows that BlackBerry gets a lot of criticism for not producing a browser experience on par with the likes of iPhone. If you hear the Internet complaining about a BlackBerry feature, rest assured the 10,000 employees at RIM have heard and are working on it.
While it’s nice to get affirmation that RIM is planning on updating its browser, the following could just as easily be deduced:
1. It’s pretty much confirmed that RIM will be launching a device with more than 1GB of on-board memory.
2. It’s pretty much confirmed that RIM is working on a new media player for future consumer devices.
3. It’s pretty much confirmed that the next generation BlackBerry processors will exceed 1GHz.
On a related note, Skyfire should be coming out with a beta before any of this can be confirmed. BlackBerry users should be able to enjoy Flash well before RIM updates the browser.
Regardless of how you may feel about the iPhone as a productivity or enterprise tool, it has done wonders for encouraging mobile software consumption and educating users about what is available to them.
Analysts are saying that the mobile games industry grew in North America by nearly 19 per cent in 2008, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers projects the market will grow from $858 million in 2008 to $1.3 billion in 2013.
Developers are having great success with mobile gaming in the App Store, but BlackBerry App World isn’t seeing the numbers just yet. Companies like Top Hat Monocle, are seeing excellent download rates in the App Store on their casual games such as Hopple, which has been downloaded more than 80,000 times.
