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Steve Job on Sickleave (Again)

January 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Steve Jobs has gone on medical leave again to watch his health. The last time he took off, the man returned with a new liver and a new iPhone. Who knows what he’ll bring in this time.

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IMGA Shortlists Nominees

January 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

The International Mobile Game Awards jury has shortlisted the nominees for the seventh award show in Barcalona. IMGA received 263 games from thirty countries around the world.

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Logitech’s Revue Settopbox Hacked

January 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

The GTVHacker-devteam has announced it managed to hack into Logitech’s Revue Settopbox. The Revue is one of the first devices based on Google TV, which is basically a TV optimized version of Android.

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Exent to Launch Android Based Games on Demand Service

January 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Exent has announced it will be launching ‘Play Anywhere’ for Android devices. The service allows gamers to rent their games similar to the commercial model is i-mode games in the 90’s.

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Motorola Expects to sell 800K Million Xooms in Q1

January 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

DigiTimes claims that Motorola expects to ship 700K~800K Xoom devices to retailers in the first quarter of 2011. Motorola will be selling the device from March onward.

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RIM Expects to sell 1 Million Playbooks in Q1

January 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

DigiTimes claims that Research in Motion expects to ship 1 million Playbooks to retailers in the first quarter of 2011 while the official release date still has to be confirmed by RIM itself.

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Glu Raises Another $15 Million Through Stock

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following it’s successful freemium game launches, Glu has announced to hand out 7.3 million new shares in order to raise money for further roll-out of their new strategy.

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THQ’s New Logo

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

We honestly have to get used to this, but after years of putting their old logo in front of the public, THQ has chosen to introduce a new one to show change within the company.

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Microsoft Questions ‘App Store’ Trademark

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

After being battled about the ‘Windows’ trademark being too generic, Microsoft is now chasing up Apple for the same thing. Microsoft believes the term ‘App Store’ is too generic.

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Gameloft CEO Answers Charges of Cloning

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Gameloft has done it for many year, and many others have been doing it as well; cloning successful games from consoles to mobile phones. In an interview with IGN, Gameloft CEO Michel Guillemot explains his reasons.