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'Art Space Tokyo' relaunch provides a model for cross-platform digital publishing

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Today sees the digital launch of Ashley Rawlings and Craig Mod's Art Space Tokyo, a guide to 12 galleries and other cultural spots in and around Japan's capital. The book is great; it's beautifully laid out and features insightful essays by and interviews with people who keep Tokyo's art scene ticking. Almost as absorbing as its contents, though, is the story of how it came to be.


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Oovoo for Android and iPhone gains simultaneous four-way video chat

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Cross-platform video chat app Oovoo is bringing its Android and iPhone offerings up to par with its desktop and iPad services today: the two mobile apps now can wrangle up to four video streams at once. Oovoo's apps (including its Facebook offering) have supported 12-way video chat for a while now, but Android and iPhone users to-date were stuck with being able to view just one other user's video stream at a time. With today's update you'll still be able to chat with twelve people at once, but now you'll get to see four of your friends' video streams at a time. We gave the new app for Android a quick spin and opened up a four-way video chat, and over a Wi-Fi network the stream quality was quite impressive. Unfortunately, streams did drop more than we would have liked, but that may have been due to network conditions. And while you...

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'Jetpack Joyride' now available for Android through Amazon App Store

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Jetpack Joyride, the hugely popular game from Halfbrick Studios, finally arrived on Android today, nearly a year after launching on iOS. For now, the game is only available through the Amazon App Store, meaning Android users will have to first download Amazon's App Store app. It's also worth mentioning that if you delete Amazon's app after downloading Jetpack Joyride, you'll no longer be able to play the game. As of yet, there's no word on when the app may arrive on Google Play.

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Sky Sports TV subscription-based app for Android now available

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Sky, the UK's number-one pay-TV service, has released its Sky Sports TV app for Android. Like the iOS app, it's a subscription-based service that provides access to Sky Sports 1-4, Sky Sports F1, Sky Sports News, Sky News, ESPN, and At The Races for £4.99 (just under $8). The app is aimed at those of us that aren't currently subscribers — Sky customers with Sky Sports 1 and 2 are able to watch all the Sky Sports channels through the Sky Go...

Dropbox web interface updated to show file changes instantly

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Multi-platform cloud storage app Dropbox has updated its web interface today so that any changes made from other browser instances or apps reflect almost instantly. For example, renaming or moving a file using one of the company's official client apps will show up in a split second in the browser. File changes are already reflected immediately on the PC and Mac clients, so it's nice to see Dropbox bringing its web interface up to speed. ...