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First iPhone 4S Prototypes Leak

April 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Boy Genius Report got their hands on a strange kind of iPhone 4. It was a iPhone 4S prototype that was handed out to developers in the US, under NDA.

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Nokia to Launch WP7 Store

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Microsoft and Nokia have signed their cooperation agreement earlier than both expected and that brought some interesting news to the table. Nokia is the first vendor that will have their own WP7 store.

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First Union Games hit Xperia Play

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Union, the distribution arm of unity, has announced the release of five games on the Xperia Play. All five games are optimized for the device using the special Xperia Play API from Unity.

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eBay Acquires Where

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It seems the right time for multi-million acquisition announcements today as eBay has bought a mobile developer called ‘where’ for a massive $135 million.

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MobileGamesBlog.com for Sale

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

I have spent 10 years in the mobile apps space and have enjoyed every day of it. Now however, I have chosen to go back to school and start a new career. Since MGB costs a couple of hours a day to run it properly, there’s no chance I can match that with the new direction I am taking. As so, I decided to start looking for a new owner for this blog.

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GfK: BlackBerry Topping the Charts in Holland

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Some more news from our lovely home country. GfK announced that BlackBerry is still dominating the Dutch sales charts. The most popular BlackBerry phone is the BlackBerry Curve 8520.

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AppCircus Hits Holland

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

Dutch Developers, there’s a new event in town. On May 16th, Rotterdam will be hosting not only the Mobile Unconference, but the AppCircus as well and at the AppCircus, developers can make their claim for fame.

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Gree Acquires OpenFeint

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gree, a leading social mobile gaming platform in Japan, has announced the acquisition of OpenFeint. Gree has over 25 million users and a market cap of $3 billion.

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Intel to Port Android to x86

April 20th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Intel has announced it’s plans to port Android 3.0 to their x86 architecture. This will allow hardware vendors to build tablets and other hardware using Google’s open source operating system on Intel chips.