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Verizon Blocks Vendor Stores

July 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Being the biggest operator in the US is clearly providing leverage. Yesterday, Verzin shared details about their upcoming app store, today they let the world know that pre-installed vendor stores are not allowed.

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Getjar GetJar Passes 500m Downloads

July 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

GetJar is celebrating as the company has served up it's 500 millionth download this month. Together with this news, the company has also taken the opportunity to introduce their new logo.

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Verizon to Battle the App Stores

July 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

At the Verizon Developer Conference, Verizon's business developer Ryan Hughes outlined a number of perks for developers that will use Verizon's platform to sell their games and apps.

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Minick UK Fully Integrated into Net-M

July 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Though Swisscom acquired 100% of Minick back in December 2006, it seems like Swisscom has sold Minick's UK office on to competitor Net-M.

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Nostromo Signs Exclusive Aggregation Deal for VF CZ

July 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Nostoromo has won an exclusive contract with Vodafone Czech to provide content provisioning services for Vodafone's Live! internet and Live! mobile internet portals.

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Sonic Boom Signs Bight Games

July 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

iPhone publisher Sonic Boom has signed a deal to distribute iPhone games from developer Bight games. The deal kicks off with the availability of Big Top 10 on the App Store.

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Ovi Poll Results

June 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 1 Comment »

Following the Ovi launch, Nokia has polled consumers about their use of the new platform. As it turned out, half of them actually used it to download games, apps and more.

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N-Gage Launched on Ovi

June 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Nokia's N-Gage has launched it's portfolio on Nokia's Ovi portal. As of now, consumers will be offered trial versions of all the N-Gage games, which can be unlocked through in-game payments.

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GetJar Hooks Up Virgin Mobile FR

June 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 1 Comment »

Tomorrow, GetJar will connect the French operator Virgin Mobile to their app store like platform. The operator will allow it's customer base to access GetJar's 45.000 free mobile applications.

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Ovi Store Signs 27 Operators

June 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Nokia's Ovi launch didn't go unnoticed by the press as well as by consumers. With visits from 152 countries, the fact that Nokia signed up for operator billing with 27 operators is welcome news.