Atari is making its own Arcade controller for the iPad

It seems that Atari wasn’t content just partnering up with ThinkGeek’s iCade arcade cabinet for iPad. They’ve let slip the plans for an Atari Arcade joystick productin a link in the descriptionof their Atari’s Greatest Hits app,reports Macrumors.Update below. The app is acollection of a ton of Atari’s games, one of which comes bundled with the iCade cabinet, whichwe reviewed here. The collection is extensive and has been a relatively popular offering on the iTunes App Store, so Atari is looking to cash in themselves with the Atari Arcade “Duo Powered” joystick for iPad....

2 min · 350 words · Michael Patterson

Atari, EA, Quickoffice and Square-Enix join forces to support Apple against Lodsys

Gaming companies Atari, Electronic Arts and Square-Enix have joined together along with app maker Quickoffice to support Apple’s intervention in the patent suits going on with Lodsys, reportsFlorian Mueller of FOSS Patents. The four are using the same representation and presenting their recommendation forApple’s intervention on behalf of developersgetting sued by the company. The support was voiced in aletterfrom their joint representation that lays out the reasons that they believe Apple should be allowed to intervene in the cases Lodsys has brought against app developers....

3 min · 522 words · Brooke Downs

Athena’s incubator looks to boost the Barcelona startup scene

The startup scene in Barcelona, Spain isn’t something we hear a lot about.Athenais an incubator programme looking to change that. “The investment scene in startups in the Barcelona are is still in an early period,” explains General Partner, Victor Zabrockis. “Most funds or accelerators here are still very conservative and with some successes on the Spanish Internet scene we see a growing interest in helping entrepreneurs getting startups off the ground....

3 min · 577 words · Andrew Jordan

Attachment hunter Attachments.me adds new features and launches an iPhone App [Invites]

We recently reviewed the Toronto-based startupAttachments.me, a service which makes it easy to retrieve long-forgotten attachments from your inbox. Since then, they’ve been hard at work adding many new features and developing a brand new iPhoneapp. Attachments.me is the brainchild of Ben Coe and Jesse Miller, who met when they were both working atFresh Books, before venturing out on their own to create their own startup. When it first launched, Attachments....

3 min · 601 words · Christopher Thompson

Attachments.me for Chrome shows thumbnails of attachments in Gmail search

If you use Gmail, you know that one of the best features of the service is search. We would expect that since it’s a Google product. Even Google can’t come up with every great feature for Gmail on its own though, soAttachments.medecided to release aChrome extensionto enhance your Gmail search experience. To view attachements in Gmail currently, you have to search for them, drill down to the email, preview the attachement or actually open them....

2 min · 275 words · Christopher Lucas
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