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OpenFeint Goes Pre-loaded on AT&T

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

OpenFeint has made an important deal with AT&T in which AT&T’s Android devices will be pre-loaded with an OpenFeint games channel. This deal is likely to boost the OpenFeint userbase.

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Mr. Goodliving to Close Down

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, People | No Comments »

Twitter is a great medium for short messages. This afternoon we received a tweet with just a URL and that one URL says it all. Mr. Goodliving is closing down and many of it’s staff is looking for a new job.

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WebOS to hit PC’s

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Big changes are happening over at WebOS land. HP has started to remove the Palm brand, showing it was really all about the OS and the hardware smarts and not the reputation of the company. It also said WebOS will come to PC.

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GetJar Secures $25 Million Investment

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

In a third round of financing, Get Jar has secured $25 million in capital. Though the company is running open app stores for multiple OS environments, the money will mainly be used for a push into Android.

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Apple Starts App Store Subscriptions

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

Though most of us expected Apple to roll out App Store subscriptions with an update to iOS, the company suddenly launched the new functionality earlier today.

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MWC: Unity’s Union to Distribute for Xperia Play

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Unity has announced that it will be bringing games to SonyEricsson’s new Xperia Play through it’s Union games distribution unit. Unity’s 3D engine was already used for many of the new Playstation Suite games.

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MWC: HTC Releases Android 2.4 Tablet

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

HTC has joined the tablet race, but has taken a remarkable step in regards to OS selection. While all others are firmly behind Android 3.0, HTC has chosen to go for Android 2.4 and there’s more.

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MWC: HTC Releases Facebook Phones

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

HTC has announced a couple of Facebook branded phoned. Well, they don’t really call them Facebook phones, but they are the first Android phones with a big blue F button at their bottoms.

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MWC: Microsoft Details Windows Phone 7 Updates

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

The first update with cut & paste and CDMA support is set to hit Windows Phone 7 in March. Later this year, Microsoft will also provide a big update that is detailed below.

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MWC: MobiUs Tries to Leverage WebApps

February 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Web Apps | No Comments »

MobiUs has released a new browser/plugin that allows developers of web based apps seems to access more of the device than most of the other services that have been around till now.