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RIM Confirms Android Support on Playbook

March 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry | 1 Comment »

RIM has confirmed that the new BlackBerry Playbook will be able to run Android apps. RIM will deliver two ‘app players’ with the playbook that should make sure the apps run on the tablet.

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Samsung Apps Passes 100.000.000 Downloads

March 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Bada, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Samsung has announced that its Samsung Apps channel passed 100 million downloads. Not bad considering the app store mostly supports Windows Mobile, Samsung Bada and internet TV apps.

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Financials: Gameloft’s FY 2010

March 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Today, Gameloft announced their sales figures for 2010. In the announcement, the company trumpets a record profit jump of 127% to € 13.6 million compared to 2009.

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Apple Removes Anti-Gay App

March 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

On Monday, Apple approved an anti-gay app from the Christian anti-gay organization Exodus. While it got a 4+ approval by Apple, the app managed to anger a lot of consupers.

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Kyocera Opens Dual Screen Android Developer Program

March 23rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

The Kyocera Echo is the first Kyocera Android phone to support two screens. As development for such a device asks some additional knowledge and experience, Kyocera opened a portal to help developers out.

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Apple to Sue MiKanDi Too!?

March 23rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following the lawsuit towards Amazon, it seems like Apple will also start chasing MiKanDi, an Android app store. Reason for this is that MiKanDi promotes itself as the first ‘Adult App Store’.

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CTIA: HTC Follows LG in 3D Smartphones

March 23rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Last night at CTIA, HTC launched the HTC Evo for Sprint. The new exclusive model for the telco supports a full 3D screen, similar to that of the Nintendo 3DS handheld console.

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Baidu to Build a Mobile OS

March 23rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Baidu is pretty much the Google of China and as so, it is planning to build a mobile OS, pretty much like Google has done a couple of years back. There doesn’t seem to be any urgency behind it though.

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Bizmey Launches Suite of Mobile Solutions

March 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Bizmey, a company based in Toronto, announced the launch of a new suite of tools for developers of Android and iOS apps. The tools focuses on monetization as well as promoting the apps.

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Amazon Appstore Launches, US Only Though

March 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

While European Android users have been drooling over the launchdate of the Amazon Appstore to get their hands on Angry Birds Rio, it seems the mother of all webshops is letting them all down.