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Mobile Minutes: Mobile gaming revenue; Never-ending batteries; Nielsen vs. comScore; NYPD?s smartphone program

Mobile videogames are expected in 2016 for the first time to generate more revenue than games played on PCs and consoles.

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a battery technology that greatly increases its lifespan and could mean never having to replace a battery again.

Preston Beckman had been listening to executives from Nielsen and ComScore snipe at each other for almost 10 minutes when at last he spoke up. ?This is starting to sound like ?Oklahoma!??? the former Fox and NBC scheduling executive said. ?Anything you can do, I can do better.?

The NYPD?s new smartphone program has helped officers respond to crimes in progress about a minute quicker than they were able to this time last year, a data official for the department said Thursday evening.