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Samsung Starts UCS Rollout on Galaxy S II

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

Samsung has started rolling out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to owners of the popular Galaxy S II smartphone. Samsung will phase-out the update over the next few days.

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Free Lumia 710’s for Dutch Developers

March 12th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Nokia and Microsoft have announced a new deal for Windows Phone developers in The Netherlands. Developers that are able to push out three new apps on Windows Marketplace before the end of June get a free Lumia 710.

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Mika Mobile Ends Android Development

March 12th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Developer Mika Mobile has put a new article online on their blog in which the developer explains why it will seize to develop Android games. The main reason, the money, the second, annoyance with the market.

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Nokia to Terminate its Wallet Services

March 12th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Nokia Money was first announced in 2009 to serve as the first digital form of money in many countries where consumers don’t have bank accounts. The service was launched late last year.

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Microsoft to Change XBLA Restrictions!?

March 12th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA | No Comments »

Developers that are working on Windows Phone and Xbox Live Arcade games are expected to see changes in Microsoft’s achievements and highscoring restrictions. According to rumours, Microsoft is expected to double the amounts of both.

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Playstation Suite SDK in Open Beta Next Month

March 9th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Next month, developers can start making use of the open beta SDK for the Playstation Suite service. Sony has performing closed beta testing before, but stuck to mostly Japanese, US and UK developers.

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Google Said to Force Wallet Usage toward Developers

March 9th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

According to Reuters, Google has started to put pressure on Android developers to start using Google’s Wallet service for in-app payments. If they won’t switch, Google Play might become a no-go area to them.

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Asus Building Google’s Nexus Tablet!?

March 9th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Digitimes reports that Asus is expected to be building Google very first tablet. If correct, this should be the Nexus Tablet and the device would have a seven inch capacitive touchscreen.

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The New iPad Recap

March 7th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

We heard a whole lot of new at the iPad presentation today. In this post we have all details sorted out for you.

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Apple iPad Liveblog

March 7th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

And we’re off! Tim Stevens has just started his talk at the Apple even, and we will be here all the way. We expect a new iPad, a new Apple TV and iOS 5.1. Press that F5 button!

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