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Apple Releases iOS 4.3

March 10th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

While the whole world expected the release to happen today, Apple released iOS 4.3 last night. The biggest impact of this update will be for developers of web based apps.

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Three Updates for Symbian in 2011

March 10th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Though Nokia has been reported to be sacking part of it’s Symbian developers, the vendor announced that it still expects to roll out three updates for the Symbian platform in 2011.

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Dutch Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Metrics

March 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Microsoft NL has released some interesting metrics on Dutch Windows Phone 7 developers. Even though the country has not officially launched yet, it seems like the platform is already gaining in popularity.

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WebOS on Every PC in 2012

March 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

According to an interview with BusinessWeek, HP’s CEO Leo Apotheker claims the company will have WebOS running on every PC they sell in 2012.

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Opera Booted Off GetJar

March 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

As a response to launching their own App Store, Opera is likely to see downloads of their popular browser go down for a bit as GetJar booted the app from their app store.

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Grey Area Secures €1.9m in Funding

March 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Late last month, location based gaming studio Grey Area closed a series A funding round securing €1.9 million. The funding in this round came from Index Ventures, London Venture Partners and Initial Capital.

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Nokia Sells Off QT

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: QT | No Comments »

The once proud parent of QT has now announced it will be selling the development platform to Digia. The transfer of ownership should be happening along this month.

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Olivetti Joins the Tablet Wars

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

If you know the brand Olivetti, you’d probably think of typewriters and dotmatrix printers. That same company has now announced it will be launching an Android tablet of it’s own.

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Connect2Media Strikes Top Trumps Licensing Deal

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Connect2Media and Winning Moves announced a new licensing deal in which Connect2Media will bring Top Trumps 007 Best of Bond to the mobile gaming arena.

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Google Kills Installed Malware on Android

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Last week, Google removed a big number of dodgy apps from Android Market. As these malware apps looked a lot like more famous apps, they managed to attract a whole lot of downloads.