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BBM Goes Open

March 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

RIM has just opened up BBM to developers that wish to include the messaging service into their BlackBerry apps. BlackBerry is however not opening up the API for usage from other platforms.

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Apple Brings the iAd to the iPad

March 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

This night, Apple announced that it will start serving iAd’s on the iPad. To make use of the iAd system, you will however need to do a little integration for your apps.

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Herocraft Back on the Market

March 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Over the past couple of months, our sources say Herocraft has been in negotiations with various companies in search to find a new partner suitable partner for growth. Negotiations have ended, putting the company back on the market.

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Smartphone Popularity in Holland

March 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

The Phone House (also known as Carphone Warehouse) has done some research to find out how popular Android is amongst smartphone and featurephone owners. We received the numbers.

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Metacritic Launches iOS Index

March 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Metacritic has launched a new indexing service for iOS, allowing developers to track their overall rating on global review sites. The service adds to PocketGamer’s quality index.

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Apple Cripples WebApps!?

March 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

It seems like iOS 4.3 brings some serious disadvantages to web based apps. As a result, many web based apps run slower after installation of the new iOS version.

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Microsoft’s Zune Hardware EOL!?

March 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | 1 Comment »

According to an anonymous source at Bloomberg, Microsoft is set to end production of new Zune media players. Zune never made it outside of the US and never managed to be a real competitor to the iPod.

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Piper Jaffray: About 4-500.000 iPad 2’s Sold

March 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Analysts from Piper Jaffray predict that Apple has sold between 400.000 and 500.000 new iPads during the first days of launch of the iPad 2. These numbers of sales shatter those of the first iPad.

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Angry Birds Rio Android’s Exclusive Debut on Amazon

March 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Following the massive succes of Rovio’s tie up with GetJar, the gamespublisher is now going to promote one of the newest app stores, that of Amazon.

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Insomniac Games to Focus on Web & Mobile Games

March 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Yet another PC/Console publisher is set to jump into the app wars as Insomniac Games’ Chief Creative Officer Brian Hastings officially announced a change of strategy.