Last month came the announcement that online video giant YouTube was launching a subscription service, charging users fees starting from $0.99 per month. The scheme is currently being piloted with a 53-channel line-up, however YouTube announced that more channels would be rolled out in the coming weeks. Once viewers have subscribed from a computer, they [...]
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Not so very long ago – a month and a day ago to be exact – Sian Rowlands, of this parish, observed that Apple had refunded the parents of a boy who had racked up a £1,700 bill on premium purchases in a bid to kill* as many Zombies as possible upon his parents’ iPad. [...]
Yesterday came the exciting announcement from Palo Alto that Facebook were moving deeper into mobile, with the launch of the Facebook phone – kind of. Mark Zuckerberg’s company is not launching a phone per se, but rather a skinned version of Android known as Facebook Home, which replaces the Android interface with Facebook’s own interface. [...]
Mobile Games: Apple shells out after children’s spending sprees
by Sian Rowlands on March 11th, 2013
Apple’s iTunes has recently hit the headlines after refunding the parents of a British boy who spent £1,700 ($2,550) making in-app purchases whilst playing Zombies vs. Ninjas on his parents’ iPad. The game itself is an example of a freemium game, which is free to download but requires in-game items and virtual currencies to progress, [...]
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