Archive for the ‘Platforms: AndroidOS’ Category

AdMob to Support Windows Phone 7

March 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Google’s AdMob is ready to spread their new Windows Phone 7 SDK amongst developers. At the same time, AdMob will be updating the SDK’s they released for Android and iOS developers.

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Angry Birds Rio Android’s Exclusive Debut on Amazon

March 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Following the massive succes of Rovio’s tie up with GetJar, the gamespublisher is now going to promote one of the newest app stores, that of Amazon.

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Scoreloop Announces ‘Go Android’ Program

March 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Scoreloop has announced the Go Android program which helps developers of successful Apple iOS apps to port their apps over to Google’s Android platform.

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Olivetti Joins the Tablet Wars

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

If you know the brand Olivetti, you’d probably think of typewriters and dotmatrix printers. That same company has now announced it will be launching an Android tablet of it’s own.

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Google Kills Installed Malware on Android

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Last week, Google removed a big number of dodgy apps from Android Market. As these malware apps looked a lot like more famous apps, they managed to attract a whole lot of downloads.

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Opera Launches Opera Mobile Store

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: PalmOS, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Opera has launched it’s own browser based app store called Opera Mobile Store. The app store is active in over 200 countries and supports platforms like Android, BlackBerry, Palm and Symbian.

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RIM to Expand Ping Onto iPhone and Android!?

March 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

If rumors are right, BlackBerry is developing special versions of BlackBerry Messenger for both the iPhone as well as for Android. Both new versions would be paid apps though usage after purchase is free.

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Lookout: Android Market Grew 127%

February 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

US research bureau Lookout has calculated that Android Market grew 127% over the past six months. Apple’s growth in percentage is significantly lower with ‘just’ 44%.

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OpenFeint Goes Pre-loaded on AT&T

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

OpenFeint has made an important deal with AT&T in which AT&T’s Android devices will be pre-loaded with an OpenFeint games channel. This deal is likely to boost the OpenFeint userbase.

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MWC: Unity’s Union to Distribute for Xperia Play

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Unity has announced that it will be bringing games to SonyEricsson’s new Xperia Play through it’s Union games distribution unit. Unity’s 3D engine was already used for many of the new Playstation Suite games.