Software

The story of the videogame SimCity, the latest version of the successful series with the same name, which was to revive a glorious name in the field of videogames, has instead become synonymous with failure. The big problems suffered by players in the early days that followed the launch of the new Simcity showed that Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts that developed it, made various mistakes.

Facebook, Amazon and Google joined the association Cancer Research UK providing the resources necessary to create a videogame for mobile phones that’s really special. Its name, at least its working name, is GeneRun and will be userful to cancer research and allowing anyone to examine a mountain of data to find small changes in genes that may cause cancer forms.

LG has reached an agreement with Hewlett-Packard for the acquisition of the webOS operating system for an amount of money that hasn’t been disclosed. LG will use webOS in its new line of Smart TVs and will assume stewardship of the projects Open webOS and Enyo, the cross-platform JavaScript framework used to write applications that work on different mobile devices and browsers.