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EA Acquires Bight Games

August 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA has bought yet another mobile developer. This time it’s the studio that has already developed several games for EA Mobile (NBA Jam, Fleeced).

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10 Year Old Detects Exploit in Social Mobile Games

August 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Over the past two years, there have been lots of developers that created Farmville-like mobile games. A 10-year old kid showed how to manipulate those games at Defcon.

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Patrick Mork Moves to Google

August 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Following his career at Glu and then GetJar, Patrick Mork is now moving to Google as their new Marketing Director for Mobile Applications. He announced his move on his own blog.

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Former Gameforce CEO Starts Mobile Studio

August 4th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A new mobile development studio has entered the arena. This time it’s Flaregames, headed by former Gameforge CEO Klaas Kersting. He’s not the only big shot stepping in though…

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SonyEricsson Tests 3D Screens!?

August 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | 1 Comment »

Following HTC and LG, SonyEricsson is rumoured to be testing new autostereoscopic 3D screens for its mobile phones. That step would be late, but logical since SE’s objective is to offer the best entertainment experience.

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Italians Develop Android Watch

August 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It seems like Android developers have to take care of yet another form-factor as Italian designers have developed a new watch based on Google’s Android operating system.

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Samsung Sold 5 Mln Galaxy S II Devices

July 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | 2 Comments »

It took them 85 days, but Samsung now confirms it has managed to sell 5 million Galaxy S II devices. That news comes only 30 days after hitting 3 million sales.

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WebOS Hits Four New Markets

July 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

WebOS keeps rollin’ on, though a bit slower than pretty much any other OS. HP now announced that developers can submit their WebOS apps for sale in four new markets.

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Mozilla Works on Mobile Operating System

July 26th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | 1 Comment »

As if we didn’t have enough already, Mozilla has announced the organization is working on their own mobile operating system, though the basis of the project is Google’s Android OS.

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Google Books Removed from App Store

July 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though some folks on Twitter noticed it earlier this week, it then seemed to be a small error. Now however it seems the removal of the Google Books app for the iPhone has been on purpose.

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