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Sticky Wins the AppCircus in Rotterdam

May 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Yesterday, MobileGamesBlog and friends organized the first Dutch AppCircus in Rotterdam. During the AppCircus, the jury was judging for the best app of Holland. The honors went to Sticky from Gamistry.

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MU: Best Practices in App Development

May 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

Tom Lous was asking in a group discussion what the way to go is. There’s native development on one side while there is a wide collection of tools on the other. Next to that, what if your one iOS developer is away on sickleave?

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MU: Are Apps the New Bubble

May 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

We stroke down in Rotterdam for the fourth edition of the Mobile Unconference. The schedule is stuffed, but the first session we joined is a group discussion with the topic “Are Apps the new Bubble”.

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Sony re-Launching Networks

May 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

Sony informed the press this afternoon that the company has started to bring their networks back online. Sony’s networks have been offline for a while as they got hacked.

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CVG: Sony Concerned by Xperia Play PSone Sales

May 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

According to CVG, Sony has expressed concerns about the sales of PSone games on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play smartphone. Only a few thousand sales have been registered to date.

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Flipboard Partly Blocked in China

May 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Flipboard har been pretty successful in China, partly because it was one of the few apps Chinese could use to access popular sites like Twitter and Facebook. Those have now been closed off.

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OFX Goes Private Beta on Android

May 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

OpenFeintX has gone in private Beta for android developers. This means that Android developers will now have the freedom to build their own in-app stores over the system.

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Meet The PlayBook

May 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Last Thursday, MGB was present at the Meet The Playbook event RIM organized in Amsterdam. Most of RIM’s prominent speakers were present to inform developers about what possibilities they have with the PlayBook.

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Pyramid: Windows Phone Leading in 2015

May 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Though most researchers are battling it out over Android and iPhone, Pyramid Research says Windows Phone 7 could be the leading mobile operating system by 2015.

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Samsung Sold 3 Million Galaxy S2’s

May 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

While the Samsung Galaxy S2 is still not available in most of the smaller markets, the company already managed to sell 3 million units of its flagship device. Main sales come from Korea and the UK.