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AMD Partners With BlueStacks to Bring Android Apps To Windows 7 & 8

Posted 09/30/2012 at 10:36am | by Justin Kerr

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Android Apps on AMD It’s been awhile since AMD held the performance crown over Intel in the CPU wars, but then again, performance isn’t the only way to win customers. The Sunnyvale California based chip maker has a few more tricks up their sleeve, and have partnered up with a company called BlueStacks to offer up an Android emulator capable of running over 500,000 pre-existing Android apps. The emulator will be optimized for AMD CPU’s going forward, however both AMD and Intel users can download a free version of the software right now.

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iControlPad Emerges from Vaporware, Now Available for Order

Posted 02/09/2011 at 6:04am | by Paul Lilly

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The iControlPad has been promising to transform iPhone and iPod devices into bonafide gaming platforms since 2008. Back then, iControlPad was pitching a dedicated directional pad with four rubber gaming buttons that would fit snugly around Apple's mobile devices and plug into the dock port. Here we are two years later and you can finally order one. What's more, the final design is such that it should work with any modern smartphone, not just an iPhone/iPod touch.

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Microsoft Rejects NES Emulator for Windows Phone 7

Posted 01/02/2011 at 10:43am | by Justin Kerr

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Windows Phone 7 brought with it not just the promise of a better user experience, but also freedom from the draconian policies of the Apple App Store for beleaguered developers. Though Microsoft wasn’t entirely clear on their policies upfront, it would seem indie developer Matt Bettcher has stumbled upon a new one.

According to Bettcher his mostly open source Nintendo emulator has been rejected, and he was advised by company officials that this category of application would not be allowed in the Marketplace. This is a rather interesting stance when you consider that while Apple initially took this path as well, they finally give in to community pressure and have allowed similar projects to be accepted into the store.

So will community pressure work on Microsoft? Grab your pitchfork and lets find out.

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