Halfbrick Acquires Onan Games

March 21st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Halfbrick, famous for their Fruit Ninja game, has acquired Onan Games. Onan games is a cross-platform specialist that could help Halfbrick to expand its portfolio on alternative platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

EU and US Tablet Owners More Comfortable Paying for Content

March 21st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

According to a study from Nielsen, tablet owners in America and Europe are more comfortable to pay for content on their devices. Americans are most likely to pay for mobile content. Read the rest of this entry »

Ad Funded Apps Kill Batterylife and Increase Dataconsumption

March 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

It sounds logical, but since yesterday the internet is buzzing over the complaint that free games are killing battery life of smartphones. Research from Abhinav Pathak points out that heavy users can do four times longer if they switch to ad-free. Read the rest of this entry »

DrawSomething Improves Stylus Sales

March 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

More OMGPOP news today as it seems retail outlets are overwhelmed by the amounts of consumers interested in a stylus for their tablets. Dutch retail outlet Belcompany (part of Vodafone) confirmed Stylus sales went up five times in the past few weeks. Read the rest of this entry »

Samsung set to Acquire BlackBerry 10 License!?

March 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Following Google’s swoop for Motorola and Microsoft’s lovemaking with Nokia, it seems Samsung is looking for an alternative OS to push next to Windows Phone, Android and Bada. The OS of choice? BlackBerry OS 10… Read the rest of this entry »

Zynga Interested in OMGPOP!?

March 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

With OMGPOP’s DrawSomething attracting 30 million downloads in just five weeks, the company put itself in the spotlights to be acquired. One of the companies that is rumoured to be interested in OMGPOP is Zynga. Read the rest of this entry »

3.000.000 iPads Sold

March 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple has announced that the company sold off over three million iPad’s in the first three days it is available. Supplies of the new iPad seem good as well as there are still a lot of outlets where the iPad isn’t out of stock. Read the rest of this entry »

Sony Starts Sony Ericsson Rebranding Campaign

March 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

With the first Xperia’s with the Sony logo on the shelves, Sony has started a global promotional campaign to introduce itself as well as the new slogan “Made of Imagination” to the (smartphone) consumer. Read the rest of this entry »

App Hub Soon to Accept Submissions for New Markets

March 19th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Microsoft has announced the support for a large number of new markets where consumers can download apps to their Windows Phone devices. As so, App Hub will soon allow submissions for these. Read the rest of this entry »

Class Action Lawsuit Heading to Google over Refunds

March 19th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

The industry complaint over and over when Google introduced the 48-hour refund policy in the early years of Android. Since then, the refund period was limited to 15 minutes and this is about to cause a new headache for the company. Read the rest of this entry »