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Windows 8 a Lot Like Windows Phone 7

June 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Microsoft has put a video on YouTube detailing what Windows 8 will be looking like. The first thing that comes to my mind is “Windows Phone 7”, and that’s not far sought.

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Nielsen: Android Users Use More Data

June 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

In a recent study from Nielsen, the analyst discovered that Android owners are using more data than their iOS counterparts. Something that used to be the other way around.

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Origin is EA’s Steam for PC and Mobile

June 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

EA has announced that it will be launching a new download store called Origin. With the launch of Origin, the EA webshop goes multi-platform as it supports PC and Mobile users.

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BlueStacks Delivers Android Apps to Windows Users

May 26th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

BlueStacks is a new tech startup that has developed virtualisation software to run Android OS in a Windows environment. The company managed to bring in $7.6 million in investments.

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Unity Celebrated 500K Developers

May 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Unity has just announced that 500.000 developers have sigend up for their SDK. At the same time, their Unity Browser plugin reached 60.000.000 installs.

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App Store Hits 500.000 Apps – Infographic

May 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

While Android Market is expected to overtake the Apple App Store in numbers by next year or so, the App Store is still about a third bigger. Chillingo, 148Apps and Chomp made an impressive infographic.

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Microsoft Unveils Mango and Web Based Marketplace

May 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Yesterday, Microsoft provided full details on the next update of Windows Phone 7. It is indeed called Mango and oh yeah, the name of the OS is just Windows Phone now…

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RBC: 250.000 PlayBooks Sold

May 19th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

By now we all know RIM will have to push hard to conquer a piece of the tablet pie, but their PlayBook is doing far from bad. RBC estimates about a quarter of a million sales for the tablet.

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Bye Bye Ovi

May 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Nokia has announced it will end the Ovi brand. Instead, the company will be rebranding all services under Ovi to… Nokia. Indeed, Ovi Services have become Nokia Services which sounds logic.