Archive for the ‘Platforms: Symbian’ Category

EMI Starts Boosting Artists onto Ovi

September 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

EMI has announced that Kylie Minogue, Lily Allen, Professor Green and Eliza Doolittle are all getting freely downloadable applications on Nokia’s Ovi Store.

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OVI, More Numbers

September 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: WRT, Research & Stats | No Comments »

John Pope from Nokia has sent us some additional numbers on the Ovi store performance as well as the performance of some of the other Nokia products and services that have been announced at Nokia World yesterday.

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Ovi, The Numbers and The Future

September 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: WRT | 2 Comments »

Ovi pushes out 2 million downloads a day. 90% of the Ovi visitors actually find something they want to download and 85% of the traffic is returning traffic. Carrier billing is the most popular billing method.

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Inneractive Secured 25% ad-share on Ovi

September 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: J2me, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: WRT | No Comments »

Mobile advertising agency Inneractive claims to have secured 25% marketshare for in-game advertising on Nokia’s Ovi portal. In fact, 70% of the top 10 apps are powered by Inneractive’s ads.

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Symbian Sells 298.000 S60 Phones a Day

August 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Thought 200.000 new Androids a day is a lot? Symbian says they are still miles ahead of Google as Symbian sees 298.000 new S60 based smartphones being activated every single day.

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Symbian Botnet Uncovered

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Though mobile phones have never been a real target for hackers, a security agent from NetQin claims to have uncovered a Symbian based botnet consisting of 100.000 mobile phones.

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Japan Builds National Mobile App Platform

April 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Linux, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Six mobile companies in Japan have announced to start developing a national platform for mobile application and game development which should go live in 2012.

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Offscreen Celebrates 25 Million Ovi Downloads

April 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Offscreen seems to be one of the mass content providers to Nokia’s Ovi Store. The company’s Ovi offering consists of eBooks, mobile games and applications and has announced their 25th million download.

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Ovi Stats Update

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Currently, Ovi is generating over 1.6 million downloads a day and the store is backed by developers from 80 countries. Nokia’s Ovi Store supports over 100 devices of which over 60 are Symbian based.

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T-Mobile Launches SoftwareLoad in the UK

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: PalmOS, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

T-Mobile has announced the launch of Softwareload.co.uk. The UK is the second market for T-Mobile to launch the mobile offering as it first needed to prove itself in the German market.