Enermax to launch CPU coolers

Enermax to launch CPU coolers

Posted on 19th Feb 2011 at 10:32 by Richard Swinburne with 18 comments

During a brief discussion with Enermax recently, a PR person let slip that the company's planning to launch a new CPU cooler range, which will be based on the principles of vortex generator flow technology, while featuring a couple of Enermax's Twister bearing fans.

The cooler has six heatpipes that get direct contact with the CPU, while a Twister fan sits on either side of the tower. Meanwhile, the LEDs can be switched off using the little buttons below each fan in the picture. The fans *should* feature 4-pin PWM power connectors as well, but we don't know whether they'll be tied together with a single connector yet.


More information about the coolers is likely to start doing the rounds soon, though, as Enermax is encouraging folk to visit its booth in the usually wet (sometimes snowy), cold and miserable surroundings of the CeBIT tradeshow in Hannover, Germany, at the start of March.

Does this design look like a winner to you? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.

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Elance?s Online Employment Report reveals PHP & WordPress skills in top demand

Elance, one of the web?s leading freelance job auctioning services, has released its quarterly Online Employment Report. The report uses data from the service to find trends in the web work sphere.

In the last three months of 2010, Elance users brought in a total of over $27 million, a significant chunk of the $351 million in earnings the site has facilitated over its lifetime. Between Q4 2009 and Q4 2010, the number of job postings grew a whopping 37.7%. The report backs other sources showing that companies are spending more of their labor budgets on freelancers over employees every year.

Most interesting to designers and developers are Elance?s statistics on top overall skills, sorted by demand. Developers working with PHP and WordPress top the list at #1 and #2 respectively, with article writing, HTML and graphic design in the top five. Despite the proliferation of newer frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, it appears that PHP and open source PHP projects like WordPress, the world?s most widely-used blogging platform, are here to stay.

About the Author

Joel Falconer is the Australia Editor at TNW, based near Brisbane. Having worked as an editor at various startups, Joel is interested in web publishing, design, shiny Apple gadgets and MMO gaming. Follow Joel on Twitter.

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Zotac intros Brazos-powered barebones Zbox AD02

With various manufacturers shipping Brazos-based Mini-ITX HTPC motherboards, AMD's new platform was bound to be offered in a more complete package. It seems Zotac has done the honors, announcing one of the first compact barebones systems powered by AMD's E-series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). The new Zbox AD02 comes in two versions and is outfitted with the 1.6GHz dual-core E-350 APU.

The E-350 has an on-die Radeon HD 6310 graphics core and there's no mention of a PCIe x16 slot for expansion cards. The AD02 has two DDR3-1066 SODIMM slots and room for one 2.5-inch storage drive. Connectivity includes four USB 2.0 and two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI and DVI-I-out (VGA with included adapter), a 6-in-1 card reader, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and 7.1-channel audio with optical S/PDIF.


Meanwhile, if you don't want to buy the RAM and storage separately, Zotac offers the Zbox AD02 Plus with 2GB of memory and a 250GB HDD. Neither product page seems to mention pricing or availability, but for reference, the CULV SU2300/Ion-powered Zbox HD-ND22 is currently available for $270. You can compare Fusion's performance to the Intel/Nvidia competition with our Asus E35M1-M Pro review.

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Hardware 19 - The Cockney Cast

Hardware 19 - The Cockney Cast

Posted on 18th Feb 2011 at 10:18 by Podcast with 6 comments

This week's bit-tech and Custom PC podcast is brought to you by Clive, Antony and Paul.

First on the agenda is the continuing Intel Sandy Bridge saga, and what motherboard manufacturers are doing to sort it out. We also comment on MSI's returns strategy, which the company announced on Wednesday.

Next we make some time to talk about the gorgeous Silverstone FT03. It's a pretty peculiar case due to its inverted design, but it's always refreshing to see manufactures taking a different approach.

Finally, Antony gives us a sneaky look at the CPU cooler group test from the latest issue of Custom PC, which went on sale at newsagents yesterday. Make sure you pick up a copy if you want to see which new CPU coolers offer the best combination of cooling and value.


As always, we've also set up our weekly competition, although there's a slightly different twist on it this week. The lucky winner will be able to get their hands on a Mionix Propus 380 mousepad, which will provide the perfect tracking surface for whichever mouse you choose to use.

As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast direct, listen in-browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.

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Obama Backs Easing State Health Law Mandates

In remarks to the National Governors Association, Mr. Obama said he supported legislation that would allow states to obtain waivers from the mandate as soon as it took effect in 2014, as long as they could find another way to expand coverage without driving up health care costs. Under the current law, states must wait until 2017 to obtain waivers.

The announcement is the first time Mr. Obama has called for altering a central component of his signature health care law, although he has backed removing a specific tax provision that both parties regard as onerous on business.

But the prospects for the proposal appear dim. Congress would have to approve the change through legislation, and House Republican leaders said Monday that they were committed to repealing the law, not amending it. Even if the change were approved, it could be difficult for states to meet the federal requirements for the waivers.

The White House described the proposal, based on a bipartisan bill recently introduced in the Senate, as a common-sense date change that would give states the freedom to innovate and act as laboratories. Mr. Obama called it ?a reasonable proposal,? telling the governors, ?It will give you flexibility more quickly while still guaranteeing the American people reform.?

Political calculations, as much as policy ones, were at work in the president?s announcement. The shift comes as the health care law ? and the mandate in particular ? is under fierce attack in the courts, where federal judges have issued conflicting opinions on its constitutionality. The mandate is also a rallying cry for conservatives and Tea Party supporters, who regard it as a prime example of overreaching by the federal government.

Mr. Obama has been trying to reposition himself in the political center on some issues in the wake of the drubbing his party took in the November midterm elections; dropping his insistence on the mandate is one way to do that. And with governors pressing the administration to allow them to cut Medicaid rolls to ease their fiscal distress ? a step Mr. Obama does not want to take ? the president is trying to look flexible in other ways.

But Mr. Obama?s flexibility goes only so far. ?I am not open to refighting the battles of the last two years,? he said, ?or undoing the progress that we?ve made.?

Mr. Obama?s announcement did not appear to appease his Republican critics. The House majority leader, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, told reporters that the health law was ?an impediment to job growth? and that Republicans remained committed to its repeal.

And while some Republican governors praised Mr. Obama for reaching out, they said the move did not address their underlying discomfort with the law or the major structural flaws facing state budgets. In meeting with the governors, Mr. Obama also asked them to come up with a bipartisan group to find ways to reduce Medicaid costs.

?I was disappointed,? said Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, chairman of the Republican Governors Association. ?Pretty much all he did was to reset the clock on what many of us consider a ticking time bomb that is absolutely going to crush our state budgets. The states need more than that.?

Some Democrats also reacted warily. Many are convinced that it is not possible to expand health care coverage and achieve deficit reductions without the federal mandate, and they worry that amending the law would be tantamount to weakening it.

Senator Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat who as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee wrote a bill that included an idea similar to the one Mr. Obama proposed, issued a tepid statement saying he would consider it.

?We want to give states as much flexibility as possible,? Mr. Baucus said, ?but that flexibility shouldn?t fail to ensure that Americans in every state have access to quality, affordable health care.?

The White House said the proposal was unrelated to the challenges to the constitutionality of the mandate. But encouraging states to pursue alternative ways of expanding coverage could prove useful should the Supreme Court ultimately rule that the mandate is unconstitutional.

At the same time, the mandate, and the health care law more generally, is sure to be an issue in the president?s 2012 re-election campaign, which may be a reason he is offering the proposal now.

?It?s to his advantage to show that he wants to be more moderate on this,? said Dan Mendelson, a health policy expert who worked in the Clinton administration, ?because the mandate is terribly unpopular politically and he doesn?t want to be saddled with that going into the next election.?

The bipartisan legislation that Mr. Obama is now embracing was first proposed in November, eight months after the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, by Senators Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, and Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts. Senator Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana, a Democrat, is now a co-sponsor.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported from Washington, and Kevin Sack from Atlanta. Jeff Zeleny contributed reporting from Washington.

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Technology Will Make Collaboration Your Next Competitive Advantage

Editor's note: Today we begin a new monthly topic in Business Impact at Technology Review: Collaboration Tools. Powerful software and widespread Internet connectivity are making it easier than ever for people to work together no matter where they happen to be. Throughout March we will look at the latest tools for collaboration within and between organizations. We'll analyze why some technology-enabled collaborations work and why others don't. We'll explain why some collaboration tools have failed to prove useful to the employees meant to benefit from them. We'll present case studies, profiles, and interviews that help you understand how to make the people in your organization more collaborative and more productive.


Since the dawn of managerial capitalism, collaboration and work have almost always been synonymous. People need other people to realize their greatest impact, and innovation, perhaps the most valuable activity in business, depends critically on the kind of cross-pollination of ideas that collaboration enables.

But technology has changed how we collaborate, especially since the communications revolution began 150 years ago with the telegraph and the telephone. This wave of change continued with the commercialization of the fax machine in the 1970s and of e-mail in the 1980s. The last 20 years have brought a convergence of communications and computing technologies that has expanded the possibilities for technology-enabled collaboration, whether synchronous or asynchronous, proximal or distant. With voice mail, videoconferencing, instant messaging, chat forums, blogs, wikis, social networking, microblogging (through services such as Twitter and Foursquare), voice-over-IP, telepresence, and, of course, mobile communications and computing, never have we had so many ways to collaborate without having to be in the same place at the same time.

Technology-based platforms explicitly designed for collaboration arose in the late 1980s with the concept of "groupware" or "collaborative work environments." These made it possible for people to join forces even though they were working in different places and in different time zones. Lotus Notes brought the notion to the corporate market at a time when business use of the Internet was still in its infancy. As the journalist David Kirkpatrick wrote in 1992, "If groupware really makes a difference in productivity long term, the very definition of an office may change." With admirable prescience, he noted: "You will be able to work efficiently as a member of a group wherever you have your computer. As computers become smaller and more powerful, that will mean anywhere."

That prediction has become reality, especially since the recent financial downturn. As businesses cut back on workers and resources, the number of professionals who defined themselves as freelancers increased to 30 million in the United States alone, and many of them turned to social-networking sites, such as LinkedIn and Facebook, to build their businesses. Many people who remained employed used the same strategies as an insurance policy against the next reduction in force. They also compensated for leaner IT budgets by supplying their own hardware, leading to new acronyms such as BYOD ("bring your own device") and BYOC ("bring your own computer"). In fact, Kraft Foods "coöpted" employee-owned smart phones and tablets, explicitly welcoming and supporting "third-party" devices not directly purchased by the company.

Such policies, in turn, created a new meaning for BYOC: "bring your own culture." Why? Workers equipped with their own smart phones and notebooks became accustomed to using those devices in whatever ways they chose. They demanded freedom of access to rich media websites (like YouTube), social-networking platforms, and certain content providers (such as WikiLeaks and publishers of its documents, like the New York Times and CNN.com) that many corporations and government entities had blocked for reasons of bandwidth costs, data protection, and corporate security. One senior Dell executive I've come across argued that if he was going to spend 60 to 80 hours a week at work, the company had no business deeming any content on the Web off limits. The corporate firewall, designed to make a stark distinction between internal and external information resources, was an artifact of a bygone era. The Dell executive prevailed.

As we'll see in this month's articles, interviews, and case studies in Business Impact, network-enabled collaboration both within and between firms is changing work in fundamental ways.

To fuel this revolution, established companies and startups are offering tools and platforms that support ever more powerful means of collaboration. Their business propositions are predicated on Metcalfe's Law: as linkages among individuals increase arithmetically, collaboration as a result of those linkages rises in value geometrically. That's why many companies seeking to accelerate the pace of innovation turn to open innovation.

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US says China's Baidu search engine is great for pirates

The US Trade Representative (USTR) has accused the Chinese search engine Baidu for steering consumers to third-party websites hosting pirated material. The information comes from USTR's latest report, titled "Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets" (PDF). The search engine was the only website named under a section called Linking:
These are online services engaged in "deep linking" to allegedly infringing materials, often stored on third-party hosting sites. Baidu recently ranked as the number one most visited site in China, and among the top ten in the world.

While Baidu was the biggest entity named, China was still mentioned many times in the report. The country is often criticized for not protecting intellectual property rights. Taobao, for example, is a Chinese website offering a wide range of infringing products to consumers and businesses. Although it has made significant efforts to reduce said problems, it still has a long way to go. Taobao was recently ranked in the 15 most visited sites in the world, and in the five most visited sites in China.

The report also underlined 13 physical markets for piracy (three were in China): Bahia Market (Guayaquil, Ecuador), China Small Commodities Market (Yiwu, China), Ciudad del Este (Paraguay), Harco Glodok (Jakarta, Indonesia), La Salada (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Ladies Market (Mongkok, Hong Kong), Luowu Market (Shenzhen, China), Nehru Place (New Delhi, India, PC Malls (China), Petrivka Market (Kyiv, Ukraine), Quiapo (Manila, Philippines), Red Zones (Thailand), and San Andresitos (Colombia).

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A One-Hour Cancer Detector

The nerve-racking wait for cancer-screening results can go on for several days, as clinicians analyze images and biopsies. A new handheld device could significantly shorten that stressful period. Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have engineered a portable device that plugs into a smart phone and reduces the time it takes to detect cancer to just an hour. The device takes a small tissue sample and quickly analyzes it for telltale cancer proteins. When the latest prototype was tested on 50 patients with gastric-related cancer, it detected malignancies with 96 percent accuracy?better than existing laboratory-based tissue-sampling tests. The results of the study were published last week in Science Translational Medicine.

Hakho Lee, assistant professor in the Center for Systems Biology at MGH and one of the study's authors, says the device may perform better than current methods because it reduces the possibility of human error. Typically, doctors take a biopsy from a patient and send it to the lab, where pathologists place sections of tissue on slides and analyze them under a microscope. The process is time-consuming, and suspicious proteins may go unnoticed.

"In our design, we inject everything from the patient into the device, and then it will give out a result," says Lee. Cancer cells often secrete proteins that carry out the functions of tumors, so researchers have begun looking for ways to identify protein "signatures" as early warning signs of cancer. The proteins often appear in small quantities, however, and are difficult to detect. The new device is programmed to detect key proteins expressed on a cancer cell's surface.

Lee and his colleagues made innovative use of nanotechnology in order to detect multiple types of cancer proteins simultaneously, from a minuscule tissue sample. The group designed a microchip that houses a solution containing magnetic nanoparticles. They identified 11 proteins commonly expressed by gastric-related cancers and attached a corresponding ligand or binding molecule, to each nanoparticle. Then they obtained tissue samples from 50 patients and injected the samples into the microchip. The device creates a magnetic field and uses it to determine which proteins had locked onto the nanoparticles. The device needs to detect only four out of the 11 proteins to achieve its 96 percent rate of accuracy, in a process that takes just about an hour.

Lee says the study also produced an important new finding: after an hour, the proteins started to degrade quickly, and the group had greater difficulty in detecting them than it did with fresh samples. "This tells us we have to either fix the sample to fix the proteins on the cell surface, or there should be a method that can be portable and in the clinic so that doctors can get samples and do the measurement on the spot," says Lee. Toward that end, Lee's group has designed the microchip to plug into a smart phone, which, armed with software, can analyze protein levels and quickly deliver a diagnosis at the patient's bedside.

James Heath, professor of chemistry at California Institute of Technology, says the device is a sensitive and user-friendly way of diagnosing cancer, and may also provide researchers with a fast and accurate way to detect other proteins of interest.

"People would like to do protein-based diagnostics via blood analysis," says Heath. "For either blood or tissue analysis, sample degradation over time is a common issue. [This device] certainly overcomes the challenge ... since the measurements are all done very quickly following biopsy."

Lee's group is currently adapting the device to detect proteins associated with tuberculosis and will soon begin clinical trials to test another prototype for ovarian cancer. 

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In Shadow of 1995, G.O.P. Freshmen Stand Firm

That budget battle has become the central reference point for the fiscal fight that begins in earnest this week. For veteran Republicans, including some of today?s party leaders, being blamed for the shutdown was a searing experience, one they have long endeavored to avoid repeating.

But for some lawmakers in the new Republican freshman class, the circumstances and stakes of a budget showdown are quite different today. They frame their mission less as a one-term spending fight than as a crusade to redefine the role of the federal government in American life.

Many freshmen believe a government shutdown should ? and indeed will ? be avoided. ?I am committed to finding that point at which we can make reductions and get this fiscal ship turned around while finding a way to keep government from shutting down,? said Representative Kevin Yoder of Kansas.

But a far greater failure, many freshmen lawmakers say, would be to capitulate on the only issue many of them ran on. Arguing that the nation?s economic conditions and their mandate from voters demand bold solutions, the freshmen?s resolve may give the House speaker, John A. Boehner, less maneuvering room in the hopes of averting a shutdown.

?I don?t believe now and 1995 are similar times,? said Representative Lou Barletta, a freshman from Pennsylvania. ?Back then it was more about how to balance the budget. Now it is about how to keep the country from going broke. Unemployment was much lower than now. The debt was 5 trillion. Now it is 14 trillion. In 1995 the Congress wanted to get its house in order. Now it?s the American people that want that, and that?s the only reason why we are here.?

The House and Senate will probably avoid a shutdown in the short term, with a spending plan that includes $4 billion in cuts and that finances the government through March 18; the House is set to vote on that measure on Tuesday.

Throughout the opening weeks of this Congress, the freshmen have exerted a palpable influence, upsetting the plans of their leaders on a number of fronts. On no issue have they been more vocal than on budget cutting and reducing the size of government. Before proposing the two-week budget deal last week, Mr. Boehner and other Republican leaders conducted a conference call with the 87 freshmen members to explain their thinking, and get their blessing ? a testament to the power of the class.

But beyond the short-term plan, the House and Senate must still wrangle over how to finance the government for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, and freshmen are still bent on cutting at least $61 billion in federal spending.

On Monday night, Mr. Boehner met with Senate majority leader Harry Reid to discuss budget matters.

While the freshmen members disagree within their own caucus over which specific programs need to be cut, they agree that the government should reduce its role substantially in areas ranging from environmental regulations and education to public broadcasting and the arts. They feel that their credibility is on the line.

?This is not just some academic exercise for me,? said Representative Todd Rokita, a freshman from Indiana. ?I am trying to actually shrink scope and size of government.?

He added, ?If Harry Reid comes back and says no spending cuts, no nothing, at that point I feel I have no choice given what I ran on, given what I got 70 percent of the vote on, I have to shut down the government.?

As Republican lawmakers returned this week to Washington after a week in their districts, they had perhaps even more determination than when they left. In town hall-style meetings and constituent coffees, they said, the refrain remained the same. There was ?universal agreement that the issues facing our country right now are very critical,? said Representative Steve Womack, a freshman from Arkansas, and voters encouraged him to ?stand our ground and stay the course.?

To some degree, the view of 1995 depends on each member?s experience at that time. Representative Trey Gowdy, another freshman, was a federal prosecutor in South Carolina.

?I remember it like it was yesterday,? he said, ?having conversations with my fellow prosecutors about whether or not we had a job to come to and whether we were essential. My supervisor assured us we were not.? As such, Mr. Gowdy said, a shutdown, ?will not be good for people who are innocent bystanders.?

In contrast, Mr. Rokita ?was 25 years old, in my last year of law school at an all-male college, so my mind was on my career and women and not so much the federal government.? He said that the difference in temperament between Mr. Boehner and Newt Gingrich, the speaker in 1995, was critical: ?Boehner is not sticking fingers in people?s eyes.?

What is more, in the view of Mr. Rokita and some other freshmen, their attitudes are getting a far broader and sympathetic airing than those of their Republican brethren of 1995.

?Quite honestly, the major newspapers had a stranglehold on political news in 1995,? Mr. Rokita said. ?Now you have cable on both sides. People can much more easily choose the news they watch, and I am able to get my messaging out, or I can at least make a case.?

In November 1995, President Bill Clinton vetoed a continuing resolution that would have kept the government running amid a budget impasse, resulting in a partial shutdown.

Today, the party?s leaders are promoting the message that cuts can be made through a compromise with Democrats that would avoid a costly, disruptive and damaging shutdown. Eric Cantor, the Virginia Republican and majority leader, said as much Monday in a meeting with reporters. ?We can keep the government open and cut spending,? he said.

Representative James Lankford, a freshman from Oklahoma, said, ?I never hear John Boehner talking about a shutdown, and I never have.? Whether it will come to that will be determined in the weeks to come.

?It?s unknowable,? said Representative David Schweikert of Arizona, another freshman. ?We have to see where the Senate comes back. A shutdown is not out of the question.?

Carl Hulse contributed reporting.

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One third of adults are mobile phone gamers

The mobile games sector is growing quickly, according to a 2010 survey conducted by Information Solutions Group and released by PopCap Games. 33.6 percent of the 2,425 respondents (in the US and the UK) said they have played a game on a mobile phone in the last month. This qualifies them as "mobile phone gamers" for the purposes of the survey, and nearly a quarter (24.6 percent) have played in the past week, qualifying them as "avid mobile phone gamers."

Here are some other survey findings:

  • 84 percent of all mobile phone gamers, and 97 percent of avid mobile phone gamers say they play games on their phone at least once a week; 92 percent of smartphone owners who play mobile games say they play at least once a week, and 45 percent say they play daily (compared to 35 percent of all mobile phone gamers). In the 2009 survey, only 13 percent of mobile phone gamers said they played daily, and 40 percent said they played weekly or more often.
  • Among all mobile phone gamers, 50 percent said that the amount of time they spend playing games on their handset has increased over the past year, and among smartphone owners the figure climbs to 63 percent; in the 2009 survey, only 20 percent of mobile gamers indicated their consumption of mobile games had increased.
  • Among all mobile phone gamers, 78 percent indicated that playing mobile phone games had become a regular part of their weekly activities, and more than half (59 percent) indicated that they saw such games as a regular part of their daily activities; for smartphone owners the figures were 84 percent and 68 percent, respectively.
  • When asked which gaming-capable device they play games on most often, 44 percent of mobile phone gamers chose their phones, catapulting handsets past video game consoles (21 percent) and computers (30 percent) to the top of the list. 51 percent of avid mobile gamers and 55 percent of those mobile gamers who own smartphones indicated they played games most often on their phones. This compares to just 17 percent of mobile gamers who chose their handset as their most frequently used gaming device in the 2009 survey.
  • 43 percent of all mobile gamers, and 49 percent of smartphone gamers, said they had upgraded a free trial game to the full (paid) version in the past year; more than a quarter (27 percent) of all mobile gamers, and a third (34 percent) of smartphone gamers, said they had paid for additional content for an originally free game in the past year.
  • Among mobile phone gamers, the average smartphone owner purchased nearly twice as many games as those with other types of phones (5.4 games vs. 2.9 games) in 2010, and spent almost $10 more ($25.57 vs. $15.70) on phone games.
  • 19 percent of all mobile phone gamers said they played one or more social networking games via their phone daily, and more than a third (37 percent) said they play a social networking game via their phone at least once a week.
  • Among all mobile phone gamers, 23 percent of all mobile phone device usage time (excluding phone calls) is spent playing games.

"Mobile games are, along with social games, the hottest sector of the video game industry by far," Dennis Ryan, EVP of Worldwide Publishing at PopCap, said in a statement. "As more people purchase smartphones and the entire process of finding, purchasing and playing mobile games becomes as simple as browsing the internet, the mobile games market is going to accelerate even more."

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