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Appventcalendar and Gameloft Start Daily Giveaways

December 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following on last year’s success, BlackSmith Games has re-launched the AppVent Calendar. This year, they will not only be competing with all spinoffs (i.e. FAAD), but also with Gameloft.

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Vodafone Reduces Dataroaming Costs

November 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Today, Vodafone announced it will lower dataroaming costs in 16 countries in Europe. The costs in this story are based on the Dutch branch of Vodafone.

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15.000 Developers Signed up for Windows Phone 7

November 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

According to data from Microsoft, over 15.000 developers have registered themselves as Windows Phone 7 developers. To date, 3.000 apps have appeared on the Windows Marketplace app store.

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Antix Games Store Launches

November 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 3 Comments »

Antix has launched the Antix Games Store, an app store for cross platform (mobile) games.

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SPB TV Reaches 2 Million Viewers

November 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

SPB Software has celebrated the 2 millionth download of SPB TV, a TV viewer based on free to air channels available on the internet. The app is available on multiple channels.

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2 Million Downloads for Guns’n’Glory

November 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Guns’n’Glory seems to be one of the bigger hits of German developer HandyGames. On the App Store, Ovi and Android Market, the game managed to attract over 2 million downloads since it was launched.

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High Demand Causes Delays for HP’s Slate 500

November 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

HP has delayed the delivery of the Slate 500 device with six weeks due to high demand. The company expected to sell 5.000 units of their first real tablet computer, yet they received 9.000 pre-orders.

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MU: Publishing in the Smartphone Era

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

According to research from Mintel, only 12% of the consumers in the UK own a smartphone. One of the reasons is that 30% of British consumers are only interested in the cheapest deal and it shows the smartphone market is still a minor one.

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First Glu Social Mobile Games hit 1 Million Downloads

November 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Glu’s new social mobile gaming strategy seems to be paying off (at least in downloads) as the first two iPhone games adapting the model have generated 1 million downloads each.

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AppCon: Big App Productions – Hand Held MMO

November 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Richard Hasinki has been creating mobile games and apps for 11 years, starting with WAP and SMS based ones. He is experienced in J2me, Brew, Symbian, iPhone and Android amongst others. Right now, his success comes from an MMO.