OUYA closed its Kickstarter funding round with $8,596,475 from 63,416 backers around the world. OUYA announced plans to support four controllers with its $99 Android-based gaming console, which is scheduled to ship in March. OUYA's remarkably successful 30-day run on Kickstarter has also helped it lure content partners in game makers and entertainment content streamers, including Namco Bandai, XMBC, OnLive, ClearChannel Radio, iHeart Radio, and more. It's also lured developers with a "Developer Special Reward" funding category, which gives 600 developers access to an extra controller, a software development kit, and rooted access to Android.
Google Tests Gmail Emails In Search Results
Google, builder of cyborg glasses and driverless cars, is announcing a few tweaks to the thing it's best known for: search. For one, plain-old search results will now be powered by Knowledge Graph in all English-speaking countries. An addition to what Google promised us in May: when search results display, a panel of videos and images will now show up at the top of the search results queue.
Google is also thinking about mixing up Gmail emails in search results. When you enter a search term, you'll see Google results queue up per usual. Also, you'll see a pane on the right that includes any emails that contain the words you searched for. Google has a beta trial up for anyone who lives in an English-speaking country and wants to test the feature.
A bit of news for Google searchers with an iPhone or iPad: Google is linking Voice Search feature and Knowledge Graph and activating the bundle on the Google iOS app. This means that if you yell at your iPhone it will search the web for you.
Pulse Launches A Newsy Web App With A Hand From Microsoft
Pulse and Microsoft have built an HTML5-powered web page that fills up with news stories from your channel feeds. This allows mobile platforms (Windows, wink) that aren't Android or iOS powered to access the reader. Of course, it also comes alive on your desktop as well. According to AllThingsD, Pulse has about 15 million users (that is, readers who use the app more than once). That's roughly double the size of Flipboard's following (it last reported 8 million users). Flipboard, like Pulse, started life as an iPad app. When Flipboard partnered with the New York Times for access to paid content via the reader, Pulse returned with a deal with the Wall Street Journal. Neither Flipboard nor Zite have web apps yet, though both can found on Android and iOS.
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