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THQ and the Star Wars Mystery

March 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Yesterday, THQ took down their Star Wars branded games from the App Store. The rumours said the license, which has been owned by the company for many years already, has expired.

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Apple Removes Anti-Gay App

March 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

On Monday, Apple approved an anti-gay app from the Christian anti-gay organization Exodus. While it got a 4+ approval by Apple, the app managed to anger a lot of consupers.

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Apple to Sue MiKanDi Too!?

March 23rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following the lawsuit towards Amazon, it seems like Apple will also start chasing MiKanDi, an Android app store. Reason for this is that MiKanDi promotes itself as the first ‘Adult App Store’.

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Baidu to Build a Mobile OS

March 23rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Baidu is pretty much the Google of China and as so, it is planning to build a mobile OS, pretty much like Google has done a couple of years back. There doesn’t seem to be any urgency behind it though.

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Apple to Sue Amazon Over App Store

March 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Some things are bound to happen. Amazon recently announced the exclusive launch of Angry Birds Rio on the Amazon Appstore and at that moment, the whole world knew Amazon would be sued at some point.

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Apple Approves Anti-Gay App, Angers Consumers

March 21st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Apple has approved an app from the Christian anti-gay organization Exodus. The app should help to ‘heal’ Gay people with the help of Jesus (who else).

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Angry Birds Breaches Through 100.000.000 Downloads

March 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Rovio has done it. In October, the company announced their plans to reach a hundred million downloads for the Angry Birds brand. Now, in March the company announced that milestone has been reached.

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iFart on eBay

March 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Developers Joel Comm has put his once famous iFart app on eBay. By selling the app, the developer hopes to raise money for a new venture.

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J.P. Morgan: Tablet Bubble to Pop

March 10th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Analysts from J.P. Morgen expect that 2011 will be the year in which the tablet bubble will pop due to the release of the iPad 2 from Apple.

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Opera Booted Off GetJar

March 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

As a response to launching their own App Store, Opera is likely to see downloads of their popular browser go down for a bit as GetJar booted the app from their app store.