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Quanta Computer, the Taiwanese notebook manufacturer, is said to have begun volume production of the PlayBook with shipments in the first quarter of 2011 expected to top one million units. While this is still rumor, and Quanta has yet to comment, a million tablets is a very significant start to RIM’s first foray into the tablet industry. We can’t wait for this product to ship.
The International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGAs) has announced its nominees with 30 games in 6 categories that are being put forward for the final round of judging. The IMGAs has reviewed more than 1,400 mobile games from more than 52 countries including the USA, Ukraine, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, China, the Czech Republic, Brazil and Belgium. Participants include PhD students, researchers, artists, individual developers and the top ten mobile games publishers and developers in the world. The winners of the IMGAs will be announced at Mobile World Congress in February.
It should be interesting to see the smartphone breakdown of the winners. Will iPhone, which is known as a great gaming platform take all the awards? We might get surprised with a few titles from Nokia, considering the heavy European presence in the IMGAs.
For more about the nominees, check out the IMGA website.
Sean Percival, VP of Online Marketing at MySpace took a jab at BlackBerry by posting the above joke screenshot of Instagram for BlackBerry. Percival’s intent was to see how well a piece of content could go viral within the Instagram ecosystem, but it’s not very original. The joke is just a copy of the Angry Birds for BlackBerry screenshot that went viral a little while ago. MySpace is going to need a lot more in the way of creativity if it’s going to survive its almost certain plunge into obsolescence.
Emacberry let us know that FileScout has been updated and now includes support for Dropbox. The app is now listed as an official Dropbox app, and in order to keep the app as small as possible, it’s available as a separate app. To get Dropbox support for your FileScout app, you have to install the plugin separately OTA. Hit the jump to read about what’s new in this latest version of FileScout.
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Details of the Storm3 are popping up all over the place and it looks like it’s going to come late 2011. Yesterday, we heard rumors circulating that the device was heading to production, and 3D renders have recently popped up that look just like the first images we saw of the device. All of this seems to confirm that the device is definitely coming in 2011. The specs for the device are rumored as follows:
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RIM has announced the release of the BlackBerry Push Service SDK version 1.01. RIM’s famous Push SDK allows developers to deliver information through a Java or WebWorks app efficiently and reliably. The Push API is based on the open WAP Push Accesss protocol v2.2 standard, and is available to all developers and web content providers.
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