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Nokia: We’re Building Lumia 900s as Fast as We Can

John Paczkowski in Mobile on April 18 at 3:41 am PT

Nokia says the Lumia 900 inventory situation is primarily due to high demand, and not to the software glitch that once plagued the device.

Nokia’s Lumia 900 Is Out of Stock at AT&T’s Online Store, but Why?

John Paczkowski in Mobile on April 16 at 4:30 am PT

Nokia’s new Lumia 900 is temporarily out of stock at AT&T’s online store. Is it because of demand or inventory issues related to the software glitch that troubled the device’s launch?

Nokia Says Lumia 900 Software Fix Ready for Download

Ina Fried in Mobile on April 13 at 4:45 pm PT

The updated software is designed to rectify an issue that prevented some early purchasers from accessing the Internet.

Nokia Confirms Lumia 900 Software Glitch, Offers Fix and $100 Credit

Ina Fried in Mobile on April 10 at 6:00 pm PT

The company says it will offer a $100 credit to all Lumia 900 owners, regardless of whether they encountered the issue. Those affected can get an updated device at AT&T stores.

Flickr Founders Bring Latest Artistic Creation to Life. It’s Not a Facebook Game!

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 27, 2011 at 7:50 am PT

Glitch, a highly anticipated multiplayer online game, is finally launching today, after more than two years in development.

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Tiny Speck Raises Cash to Build a Massive Online Game

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 12, 2011 at 2:49 pm PT

Tiny Speck, which was founded in 2009 by the four original members of Flickr, has raised a second round of capital from Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, totaling $10.7 million. The round precedes next week’s beta launch of the Vancouver, B.C., company’s first game. The browser-based massively multiplayer game, called Glitch, offers a goofy cartoonish underworld that evolves from a speck of dust.

Verizon Beats AT&T in Voice Calls for iPhones

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 2, 2011 at 6:01 pm PT

Some major benefits of the new Verizon iPhone service include crisp, clear calls with relatively few drops. But AT&T offers faster data downloads.

Pig-Nibbling Inside 11 Giant Imaginations: The Latest Glimpse of Glitch

Kara Swisher in News on August 23, 2010 at 9:44 am PT

Here is some video of Glitch–the new game that Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield is in the midst of creating from the Vancouver HQ of his Tiny Speck start-up. Butterfield showed me the latest iteration of the game, which takes place inside the minds of 11 giants. Including, oddly enough, a pig that will give up some meat if you nibble it, but walks merrily away after.

Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield Talks About His New Game Start-Up, Glitch

Kara Swisher in News on August 23, 2010 at 9:40 am PT

Last Friday, BoomTown dropped in on Stewart Butterfield–now ensconced in Vancouver, Canada–to see what the Flickr co-founder has been up to since decamping from Yahoo a while back. Yahoo bought the innovative British Columbia-based photo-sharing service in 2005 for upward of $25 million. Now it seems Butterfield is back where he started, since Flickr was actually initially part of an original gaming project called Game Neverending. Apparently, it never did end, and now there is Glitch. Almost, that is.

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The Inbox of an Accidental Facebook Voyeur

Zachary M. Seward, Outreach Editor, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 25, 2010 at 2:01 pm PT

“Just wanted to let you know it seems like your always on my mind these days,” someone wrote to me last night on Facebook. “Sorry if thats creepy but what can I say.” It was creepy, but mostly because the message wasn’t intended for me, and its sender is an Iowa high-school student whom I’ve never met.