Archive for the ‘Other news’ Category

MWC: O2 Rewards Litmus Testers

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

O2's Litmus is probably one of the App Store concepts that we covered the most while it's not even on the market. Since a few weeks, Litmus has been open for Beta testing, and now O2 has teamed up with Mob4Hire to increase the testing quality.

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MWC: Gamelosft Sells 200.000.000

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Over at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, mobile games publisher Gameloft has announced that the company has managed to sell over two hundred million mobile games since the start in 2003.

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iBetaTest.com, a new Service for QA Testing

February 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

There is a new QA service for iPhone developers. Through iBetaTest.com, developers can make available their mobile games to voluntary consumers (that hopefully don't own a copy of Crackulous).

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Crackulous Hits the News

February 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 1 Comment »

A few weeks back, we noticed an interesting story between an iPhone developer and a cracker about why and how his mobile games where hacked. Now, the tool used is international news.

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Mozilla Fennec Live

February 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Last week, we wrote about the upcoming launch of Fennec. Yesterday, we noticed that the new mobile browser for Windows Mobile devices is available as aplha version.

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Netsize Received Penalties over Content Subscriptions

January 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Netsize has received several penalties in The Netherlands last week for collecting money via “dirty” SMS campaigns. The penalties are expected to damage the company's position in the Dutch market.

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Zumobi Brings Xbox to Mobile

January 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

The company has readied a new application for both BlackBerry, iPhoneOS and Windows Mobile owners that enables gamers to track the latest Xbox 360 news on their mobile phones.

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Geocade Comes with Location Based Leaderboards

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

A company called Geocade has reinvented the way leaderboards are used by mobile game players around the world. With their new functionality, it's possible for players to start competing at a local level.

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ThumbThug Explains Spam

December 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 1 Comment »

We have to admit it. Not even a full day passed since our ban, and one of the people behind it contacted us to explain the nasty situation which a little experiment got them in…

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mGBL Goes Open Source

December 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

The mGBL platform is targeted at creating mobile games with a high educational value. Though the platform has 11 partners from all over the globe and EU funding, it has turned Open Source in the hope to evolve into the lives of consumers world-wide.