Author Archive

Infographic: Growth of the App Economy

March 15th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following Technet’s findings that the app market is responsible for generating nearly 500.000 jobs, designer Frugal Dad started crunching the numbers and turned the whole thing into a massive infographic.

Read the rest of this entry »

Draw Something Tops 20 Million Downloads

March 14th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In just five weeks after it has been released, Draw Something from OMGPOP has managed to pull in 20 million downloads and attract media attention from all over the globe as the successor to Wordfeud.

Read the rest of this entry »

Google Play Kicks Off with Late Payments…

March 14th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It seems various developers in Europe are getting sweaty palms as payouts from Google over the month of February still haven’t arrived in their bankaccounts.

Read the rest of this entry »

Developer 10tons Labs on ‘Retinafication’ Issues

March 14th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though having four times more pixels and a new CPU is a great feature to sell the new iPad (especially to those having the first generation iPad), developers seem to run into problems with the new Retina display as 10Tons explains.

Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft Serverproblems Delted Xbox Live Achievements

March 14th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Gamers world-wide are complaining as the achievements they earned during their Xbox Live and Xbox Live Arcade (both on console and Windows Phone) games went M.I.A.

Read the rest of this entry »

King.com Acquires Fabrication Games

March 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Online game specialist King.com has started to make a move for mobile by acquiring Fabrication Games. Fabrication Games, based in Sweden, is a mobile development outfit specialized in iOS games.

Read the rest of this entry »

Sony Debuts Floating Touch Technology

March 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Today, Sony introduced their new Xperia Sola smartphone. The device, running on a 1Ghz dual-core CPU and Android 2.3 (ICS upgrade coming) introduces a new technology to developers called Floating Touch.

Read the rest of this entry »

PaymenOne Becomes PayOne

March 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Direct billing provider PaymentOne has started its rebranding operations as the company will now proceed as PayOne. The company has been operating under its original name over the past twelve months.

Read the rest of this entry »

Munster: Apple to Sell 1mil iPads on Day One

March 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

This Friday, consumers will receive their iPads by mail (if not delayed) or line-up for hours at the many Apple and other electronics stores that will start selling The New iPad. Gene Munster expects Apple to sell over a million of them on the first day of sales.

Read the rest of this entry »

Nielsen: iOS Popular with Handheld Gamers

March 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

According to new research at Nielsen, iOS devices upped total playtime by seven percent year-on-year between 2011 and 2012. The study also shows that iOS devices are very popular with handheld gamers.