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Rovio Preparing for Massive Console Development

February 4th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Rovio has hired Petri Järvilehto, developer of the Max Payne and Alan Wake franchises as Senior Vice President of Console Development. His task it to setup console development teams for the Angry Birds franchise.

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RIM Launches In-App Payments

February 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Though Google is still preparing the launch of in-app payments, BlackBerry seems to have taken the lead over them by launching in-app billing support on BlackBerry App World.

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The Daily Launches with Paid Subscriptions on iTunes

February 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Rupert Murdoch has finally launched the much rumored iPad magazine The Daily. Apple will charge 14 cents a day and will launch a new edition every day at noon (EST). The launch is limited to the US however.

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Google Launches Android Market Web Frontend

February 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

More big news from Google as the giant announced the availability of a web based frontend to the Android Market service. Until now, consumers had to settle with third party frontends to browse apps on their PC’s.

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Google Announces In-App Payments on Android Market

February 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

During their press event last night, Google announced the support for in-app payments in Android Market. With the release of in-app payments, developers can trial their iOS strategies on Android.

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T-Mobile Unveils the G-Slate

February 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

T-Mobile has just announced all details surrounding their new G-Slate tablet (from LG). The tablet will be the first to support the new 3D version of Nvidia’s Tegra-2 CPU.

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Motricity to Acquire Adenyo

February 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It seems Motricity is increasing its grip on the mobile advertising market as the firm acquires ad specialist Adenyo for a massive $100 million in cash and shares as well as a $50 million earn-out.

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Localytics: Many Apps Used Only Once

February 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

First impressions. They are not only important when on a blind date, but also when creating an app. According to research from Localytics, 26% of all apps downloaded in 2010 have been fired up only once.

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iOS Side-loading Made Easy Through Hockey

February 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Hockey is a new beta testing service that eases the distribution of Beta apps to testers all over the world. The service has been developed by Buzzworks.

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