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iAds Gallery not Inline with Apple Guidelines

April 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Last night, Apple launched iAds Gallery, an app for those addicted to the iAd format from Apple. As it turns out, the idea seems to be stolen and Apple is violating it’s own developer guidelines with the app.

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Zynga Acquires MarketZero

April 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Buying everything that’s successful works for Zynga. As so, the company has just bought MarketZero, a company that specializes in tracking poker players. What!? It’s not a gaming studio!?

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Symbian open for Business

April 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

While Nokia invested a lot in letting Symbian go open source under the Symbian Foundation, it seems the giant has changed it’s plans now it bought Symbian back. From now on, clients have to pay again.

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Google Changes Recommendation Algorithm

April 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Rumors say there has been a so called ‘Google Dance’ on Android Market. Several app developers noticed their titles sky-rocketing in the charts while others went out of sight.

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Android Apps Also Coming to BlackBerry Phones

April 6th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Last Monday, we met some folks from RIM that were lorrying a PlayBook around in Holland. Of course we took it for a sweet little spin (we weren’t at MWC), but there’s more to this story.

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NGP To Face Delays

April 5th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced that the damage to factories in the north and to factories of suppliers, the production of the NGP will be suffering. This will have an effect on the release.

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Porting QT to Android Pretty Easy!?

April 5th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: QT | No Comments »

According to CuteHacks, it doesn’t take much to convert QT apps to run on the Android platform. IN a blogpost, one of the developers claims all it takes are a couple of lines of code that need to be changed.

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Vodafone Sells Off SFR

April 4th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Vodafone has sold off their 44% in SFR to Vivendi. Vivendi already was the ‘other’ major stakeholder in the company, making it effectively theirs.

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AGON Shuts Down

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

The first victim of the battle of the social gaming networks has left the field. Agon Online announced it will be shutting down it’s servers on June 30th 2011.

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GameStop to Stream to iPad

April 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

If rumours are right, game retail store GameStop is planning to stream games onto the Apple iPad. The company is rumoured to be working with GaiKai or OnLive to provide the service.