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IDC: 371.8 Million Mobile Sold in Q1

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Analysts from IDC calculated that 371.8 million phones have been sold in the first quarter of 2011. That’s a plus of 20% year-on-year. Nokia, Samsung, Apple, LG and ZTE dominate the charts.

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BlackBerry Receives Official Facebook App Ahead of iPad

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

While iPad consumers are still stuck without an official Facebook app, RIM is proud to announce that Facebook is launching first on their new Playbook device.

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Samsung’s Galaxy S WiFi Devices to Hit Europe

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Samsung has announced it will start selling the Galaxy S mediaplayers in Europe. The 5 inch devices will premiere in Switzerland while Russia will be the first country to sell the 4 inchers.

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250K Motorola Xoom’s Sold

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Motorola is doing well. The company managed to generate 22% more revenues compared to the first quarter of 2010. The company also announced it has sold a quarter of a million Xoom tablets.

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PopCap Games Acquires ZipZapPlay

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

UK based studio PopCap games has acquired San Francisco based social games studio ZipZapPlay. With this acquisition, PopCap extends its Facebook portfolio as well as settles itself in Silicon Valley.

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AppCircus NL, Four Days Left…

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

As you might know by now, the AppCircus is coming to Rotterdam and there’s this little competition to find the best app from Holland. There’s only four days left to submit yours.

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Distimo: Android to surpass iOS App Store in Numbers

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to Dutch analytics company Distimo, the Android Market will soon be bigger than the iTunes App Store. Currently, the App Store holds 333.000 apps and Android Market holds 206.000.

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BlackBerry Developer Challenge 2011 Announced

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

The BlackBerry Challenge 2011 has started off, accepting submissions for the first competition. This first competition is about developing the best Adobe Flash/Air app for RIM’s Playbook.

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Microsoft Releases Tool and Whitepaper for iOS Developers

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Developers looking to port their apps over to the Windows Phone 7 platform are getting help from the folks over at Microsoft. The giant has created a set of two items they can use for the job.

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AirPush, The Next Level in Advertgaming

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

AirPush is a new system that allows developers to send ads to consumers, even if they are not playing their Android games. The ads will be delivered as a push notification.