Potential success for Android apps
There are several success stories of small companies and individuals having great success with iPhone apps, but it seems likely that Android apps will also be successful. App developer Aaron Lah is on track to make more than $100,000 a year from his popular Android task manager, Advanced Task Manager. The app has a paid version for 99 cents and a free version with AdMob ads, and currently earns about $10,000 a month from app sales and advertising revenue. Cumulative sales since the app's launch in February 2009 are $80,000. Mr. Lah works as an IBM employee during the day.
The Android Market offers about 70,000 kinds of apps, which is much smaller than Apple's App Store, which has 200,000 kinds of apps. It has overtaken the iPhone in the US smartphone market . Lah said the $800,000 sales fall short of the "overnight millionaire" success stories heard from iPhone apps, but it's still lucrative, noting that "Android is a promising revenue stream." there is
It's Possible To Make $100,000 A Year Selling Android Apps （Silicon Alley Insider）
Sony considers used game countermeasures
The head of SCE (Sony Computer Entertainment) in Europe suggested that they are considering a function like Electronic Arts (EA)'s "Online Pass" as a countermeasure against used games. The Online Pass will offer pre-owned game purchasers the ability to play online for $10. The executive said he was broadly supportive of "paying for the online portion of the game or unlocking the contents of the disc" and was "actively exploring the same options for our content."
Sony 'exploring' idea of Online Pass style system for its titles （Joystiq）
NFL player fined for violating Twitter ban rule
Chad Ochocinco of the NFL Cincinnati Bengals has been fined $25,000 for violating a Twitter ban rule. The NFL bans players from posting on Twitter from 90 minutes before a game until post-game news coverage, but the player violated this rule. for tweeting during the game, but I was fined two months on my Bugatti loan. I will never do this again," he wrote to the NFL "I apologize .
Ochocinco apologizes to NFL for Twitter use （Digital Sports Daily
iPhone app developer earns $1,400 a day from iAd ads
$1400 a day on iAd ads
iPhone app developer Jason Ting made $1,400 a day using Apple's advertising platform iAd. When iAd was incorporated into an iPhone 4 camera flashlight app and released for free, iAd received 9,300 ad impressions, a click-through rate of 11.8%, and ad revenue of $1,372 in one day. Ting said the only iAd ads that appear in the app are from Dove and Nissan. But since iAd is in its infancy, some speculate that the novelty may be the reason for the high click-through rate.
iAds Generate $1,400 for One Developer in a Day （Mashable）
Nintendo, 3DS "very advanced" Majikon countermeasures
Nintendo seems confident in its anti-piracy measures for its next-generation handheld game console, the 3DS. An executive at game publisher THQ said about the 3DS, "What's more fun (than the game) is the built-in anti-piracy technology." talking. When the executive asked Nintendo to explain the technology, they said, "It's so advanced that it's hard to explain." "Nintendo believes the 3DS has the technology to stop the damage caused by piracy," he said.
3DS fixes Nintendo's piracy problem - THQ （CVG）
P2P Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Reduces 'Excessive' Compensation
In a lawsuit in which an American university student was ordered to pay a large amount of damages for illegally copying music on a P2P service, a judge has significantly reduced the amount of damages. The student was sued by the recording industry for illegally trading 30 songs and was ordered to pay $675,000. But a judge called the amount "excessive" and reduced it by 90% to $67,500. At $2,250 per song, it's three times the legal minimum. But the defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, 26, said he couldn't pay the reduced amount.
P2P judge trims student's fine by 90 per cent
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