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Motorola Purchase by Google on the Verge of Approval

February 11th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Some months ago, Google announced its intentions to purchase Motorola. At that time, US and European authorities still needed to give approval for the takeover. If all goes right, Google should be getting some good news along the coming week as it will be allowed to spend its 12.500.000.000 on the acquisition.

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GamesIndustry.com Launches New BlackBook Online

February 11th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Games business portal Gamesindustry.com has launched the newest edition of their Black Book online. The Black Book was passed out in physical form during the Casual Connect Europe event.

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HandyGames Makes a Move for the Big Screen

February 11th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

With the release of Aporkalypse – Pigs of Doom for Google TV, HandyGames makes a move for the big screen. The Google TV release follows on the release of Aporkalypse for smartphones and tablets.

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Microsoft releases its Second Android App

February 8th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Microsoft has released its second Android app today as the company pushed One Note for Android on the Andrid Market. The first Android app from Microsoft was the Lync client.

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HP Releases Sourcecode HP Touchpad Android Kernel

February 8th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

HP has announced the release of the sourcecode it has developed for the kernel of the HP TouchPad. HP initially released the HP TouchPad with their WebOS system on board. Since that failed, HP is clearly abandoning WebOS and allowing consumers to switch to Android.

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LG Preparing for NFC Launch on Windows Phone

February 7th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Not only Nokia is going big on NFC. As it seems, LG has also started preparations for their next generation of Windows Phone 8 devices that will be offering full support for NFC hardware.

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Chrome Web Store Heading for Android ICS?

February 7th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Web Apps | No Comments »

As it seems, Android developers will soon get competition from Google’s Chrome Web Store. Google has just released the beta of Chrome for Android on ICS devices (not available in all countries).

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Gameloft Live! Pushed on Android Market

February 7th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: AndroidOS | 1 Comment »

Some time ago, Gameloft launched their Gameloft LIVE! service for the Android gamers that roamed Gameloft’s own deck of Android apps. Now, Gameloft seems ready for the big numbers as Gameloft LIVE! went online on Android Market.

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Unity Makes a Nove to LG’s TV’s

February 7th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: C | No Comments »

It seems LG is in for some serious gaming as Unity has expanded support for their development tools to LG. LG has already been running a dedicated TV app store on their connected TV’s and Blu Ray Players for a number of years.

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Best Buy Leaks Apple TV Details!?

February 6th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Recently, Best Buy started sending out surveys to a number of consumers. The reason for the survey? To check if consumers are interested in coughing up $1499 for a 42” TV. The results we don’t know, but we do have some details on the upcoming hardware now.