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Sony Slashes PSP Minis Pricing

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

Sony has started a new promotional effort for their PSP minis. Along February, many of the PSP Minis will be priced at 99P or €1,19 in the hope to attract more consumers to the service.

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Zynga to Acquire Whereoscope

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

Zynga is about to swallow yet another company. This time they are swallowing Wheroscope, a startup focused at helping parents find back their kids. Why would they pick this?

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First Nintendo DS Emulator Hits Android Market

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

Though the Nintendo DS’s two screens avoid anyone from making a perfect emulator, the first Nintendo DS emulator has now hit the Android Market. The emulator has been developed by Tiger King.

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Accumulate Rebrands to Flexion

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Accumulate UK Limited, the company behind the Flexion wrapper technology and platform has announced it will rebrand it’s organization to Flexion as it is their most successful and important product.

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Android 3.0 Compatible with Smartphones

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

While the general understanding is that Android 2.4 will be the next smartphone OS and Android 3.0 will focus on Tablet releases, it turns out the Android 3.0 SDK does have smartphone features on board.

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Microsoft Sold 2 Million Windows Phone 7 Licenses

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Microsoft has announced that it has sold 2 million Windows Phone 7 licenses to device vendors. This news follows on the announcement that 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 devices have been sold in the first two months after launch.

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Google Launches Honeycomb This Wednesday

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Last Friday, Google has sent out invites to journalists for its Android Honeycomb launch event coming Wednesday. The event will be taking place at its headquarters .

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Rovio and 20th Century Fox Team up For Angry Birds Rio

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

While a big part of the fans is eagerly awaiting the valentine edition of Angry Birds, the studio is already preparing a new iteration of the Angry Birds series called Angry Birds Rio.

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Security Flaw in Android 2.3’s Micro SD Access

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

North Carolina State University’s Xuxian Jiang has discovered a security flaw in Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread. According to the researcher, malicious websites can read out userdate on Micro SD cards.

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Sony Unveils Playstation Suite for Android

January 27th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

With the Xperia Play presumingly seeing daylight during the Mobile World Congress next month, Sony has announced a new service that could act as the followup to the current PSP Mini’s program.