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RIM to Announce BlackBerry Bold with Touchscreen

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

Over the past couple of days, there have been rumours of a BlackBerry Bold with touchscreen that would be announced by RIM somewhere soon. Research in Motion itself confirmed it ahead of schedule.

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Sony to Re-activate PSN and Qriocity Networks

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

Following the massive hack in which hackers managed to get hold of millions of PSN useraccount, including their passwords, Sony announced it will be re-activating the PSN and Qriocity networks coming week.

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Verizon Warns Consumers About GPS Tracking

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Apple managed to become global news again as iOS keeps a record of where the device has been at what time. Though those records are stored locally, Verizon started applying stickers with information on such devices.

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AMD Won’t Build ARM CPU’s

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

There have been some rumours going around that AMD would have acquired a licence to build ARM based CPU’s. The vendor has now announced it has no plans for ARM chips at all.

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Zynga Acquires Wonderland Software

April 28th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga has snapped up yet another mobile games studio. This time, the giant has swallowed Wonderland Software in it’s hunger for mobile projects.

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Top Trumps Heading to iOS

April 26th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Following releases on Android, Blackberry and Java, Connect2Media will now be taking Top Trumps onto iOS devices with the help of Mobile Pie. There will be three editions on all platforms.

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Barnes & Noble Launches Nook App Store

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

Barnes & Noble are rolling out Android 2.2 to Nook Color owners. As a benefit to the upgrade, Barnes & Noble also added their own app store to the update.

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Sony Set to Launch Playstation Tablets

April 26th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Sony has announced their first two Android 3.0 tablets. Both of them will support Playstation Suite and Qriocity. Nothing strange so far apart for the fact that the S2 has a very interesting formfactor.

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Windows Phone Mango, Windows Phone 7.5?

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

It seems like Windows Phone 7 is about to receive a name change as Microsoft releases the Mango update this fall. The giant called the new Mango update Windows Phone 7.5 on one of it’s websites.