Archive for the ‘Analysis & Editorial’ Category

Mobage Town Games Preloaded on Samsung’s

December 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

DeNa has signed a lucrative deal with Samsung in which Mobage Town supporting games will be pre-loaded on Samsung’s Android devices and sold world-wide.

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Gameloft Launches on Set-Top Boxes

December 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Apart from the messy situation surrounding Gameloft’s Android store, there is also good news to report about the company as it announced to be launching games on Set-Top boxes from Free.

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Gameloft Responds to MGB About Billing Issues

December 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

A few minutes ago, we were in contact with Gregory Wintengs from Gameloft in Germany as a followup to the billing issues and Gameloft Germany’s response to that toward Golum.

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Gameloft Germany Responds to Android Billing Issues

December 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »

THE story of today must be the billing issues consumers report when buying their Android games directly from Gameloft. A German site contacted Gameloft and received very interesting comments from the publisher.

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HTC and Nokia to Support Dualcore CPU’s

December 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

As phones become more advances, they become more like PC’s in our pockets. It is a rather old way of looking at things, but both Nokia and HTC prove it is still right as both start supporting dualcore CPU’s in their phones in 2011.

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Dorling Kindersley and Handango Open Up Shop

December 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

It seems book publishers are in a race for the heart and wallets of the smartphone owners visiting them. Book store Dorling Kindersley announced the launch of their app store DK App Shop.

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Arieso: Android is Heaviest Data User

December 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

It seems not so long ago networks like T-Mobile were suffering from the intense data traffic generated by iPhone users. According to research from Arieso (a network supplier) Android has taken the lead.

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KT Telecom Provides Airplay Licenses to Content Partners

December 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

KT Telecom, the Korean operator, has announced it will be providing free licenses to a custom version of Airplay for its content providers. The Airplay version will be branded Olleh.

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Rovio Predicting $1M in Monthly Ad Revenues

December 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Rovio has given out some statistical data about their Angry Birds games in an interview with TechCrunch. Rovio told the website it expects to make $1 million a month in Android advertising revenues by the end of this year.

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Ngmoco Brings Pocket God to Android and Windows Phone

December 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Since the investment from Google, it was clear that Ngmoco would be putting focus on the Android platform. With Pocket God however, the company will also start playing around with Windows Phone 7.