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Microsoft Puts restrictions on Marketplace Apps

May 2nd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Yesterday, Microsoft made clear the new policy for the Windows Phone Marketplace will be quality over quantity. Microsoft has put some more restrictions in place to kick out ‘unwanted’ apps.

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Motorola Sales Plunge, Again

May 2nd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

In the past quarter, Motorola Mobility has sold 8.9 million mobile devices. The sales took another dive. In the same quarter of 2011, Motorola Mobility sold 9.2 million devices. Though sales are down again, Motorola did record an increase in smartphone sales.

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PopCap Signs Merchandising Deal on Mobile IP

May 1st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Following the success of Rovio with Angry Birds, PopCap Games has also entered into an agreement to create merchandising based on PopCap’s mobile IP. Though the deal was signed off on a large number of brands owned by the EA subsidiary, the most valuable brand in PopCap’s portfolio is without doubt the Plants vs. Zombies franchise.

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Juniper: Samsung Topping the Smartphone Charts

May 1st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

According to research from Juniper, Samsung is topping the smartphone sales charts again in the first quarter of 2012, but only when looking at unit sales. Revenuewise, Apple is still dominating the smartphone market.

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Elite Celebrates 30 Years of ZX Spectrum

April 28th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Today, the good old ZX Spectrum has turned 30. This roughly two weeks after we have said goodbye to the creator of the Commodore 64 (or C64). Elite Systems celebrates the occasion in their own way.

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Adobe Announces Creative Cloud

April 24th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

Adobe has launched their new Creative Cloud service. Not only does Adobe allow you to get your newest software from the Creative Cloud, it also allows you to rent your software. Reducing replacement costs and allowing you to upsize the number of licenses in case of temporary peaks in your workload.

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Playstation Suite SDK Enters Beta

April 19th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Following a closed beta late last year, Sony has made available the Playstation Suite SDK to the global audience. The suite allows developers to build apps for Playstation Suite certified devices like Playstation Vita, Xperia smartphones and tablets.

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Gree Invests in IUGO

April 19th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gree has announced a new, minority investment in the Vancouver based mobile development unit IUGO. The investment follows on Gree’s investment in HTML5 developer Wizcorp.

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Microsoft to Charge for Bing API Usage

April 19th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following in Google’s footsteps, Bing has now grown enough to start charging developers for usage of the Bing search API’s. Free usage of the API’s will disappear in the next couple of months.

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First Intel Smartphone Ready for Launch

April 19th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Intel-ceo Paul Otellini announced that the first smartphone running on an Intel based SoC is ready to launch next week. The device is probably coming from India based vendor Lava.