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OpenFeint Sees 187% Increase of Downloads over Christmas Holiday

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

OpenFeint recorded an increase in iOS app downloads over the Christmas holidays of 187%. Their Android portfolio has also started to pick up momentum as the company noticed an 73% increase on that platform.

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New ECG Peripheral for iOS

January 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A company called AliveCor has developed a new cover for iPhone and iPad that allows users to read out their ECG data in real time. The system is called AliveECG.

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PSP Best Sold Console in Japan

December 30th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

While all console sales in Japan have been in decline, one little piece of machinery managed to grow it’s market; the PSP. It managed to outsell all competitors (though we are not sure the iPhone was counted)

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App Stats – The 2010 Balance

December 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to research from AndroLib, Windows Phone marketplace now holds over 5.000 apps. The app store was launched earlier this year to facilitate the launch of Windows Phone 7 in October.

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Redpark Offers Serial Cables to iOS Developers

December 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Are you developing apps that need to connect to devices through a Serial Bus connector? The folks over at Redpark made some official Serial Cables for iOS devices.

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Consumers Start WP7 Petition for Global Marketplace

December 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

As many know, Windows Phone 7 only had a full launch in several bigger markets while smaller markets do sell the WP7 hardware without having any WP7 services attached to it.

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Skype to go Head On With Apple’s FaceTime

December 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Engadget found out Skype is likely to be introducing video conferencing functionality in it’s upcoming iOS releases. The introduction of these functions bring direct competition to Apple’s FaceTime.

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Fox Mobile Sold to Jesta group

December 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It seems News Corp managed to find a new owner for it’s Fox Mobile Group. The Jesta Group has acquired the assets from news Corp. The news follows on a 15% staff reduction in November.

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Hudson Converts TurboGrafix Titles to iOS

December 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Hudson has converted a range of old TurboGrafix-16 games into iOS games. The company made this move by releasing an official TurboGrafix emulator that provides access to the Hudson titles.

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Ovi at 3.5 Million Daily Downloads

December 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Ovi’s growth keeps progressing as the store is currently generating 3.5 million downloads a day according to Distimo. 92 Ovi publishers generated over one million downloads right now.