Apple Shares Keep Rising

March 18th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The company might already be wealthy enough to feed a few African countries for the next decade or so, but there’s still no stopping when it comes to the ever-increasing value of Apple shares. Read the rest of this entry »

The Nokia Tablet Rumours

March 18th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Though Nokia has been stating it is not developing tablet devices, Marko Ahtisaar (the Nokia design chief) has said in an interview with a Finnish magazine the company is looking at the tablet market. Read the rest of this entry »

Amazon Appstore Reaches 31K Apps

March 18th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Last year, Amazon kicked off their new Amazon Appstore. After building up momentum by contacting many developers, Amazon had 4.000 apps live on the day of the launch… Read the rest of this entry »

Apps Crash More in ICS!?

March 18th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

With the first batch of Android ICS products on the market, it seems Google’s new operating system is running into a bit of trouble as reports come in that appls crash way more on ICS than previous Android versions. Read the rest of this entry »

Infographic: Growth of the App Economy

March 15th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following Technet’s findings that the app market is responsible for generating nearly 500.000 jobs, designer Frugal Dad started crunching the numbers and turned the whole thing into a massive infographic. Read the rest of this entry »

Draw Something Tops 20 Million Downloads

March 14th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In just five weeks after it has been released, Draw Something from OMGPOP has managed to pull in 20 million downloads and attract media attention from all over the globe as the successor to Wordfeud. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Play Kicks Off with Late Payments…

March 14th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It seems various developers in Europe are getting sweaty palms as payouts from Google over the month of February still haven’t arrived in their bankaccounts. Read the rest of this entry »

Developer 10tons Labs on ‘Retinafication’ Issues

March 14th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though having four times more pixels and a new CPU is a great feature to sell the new iPad (especially to those having the first generation iPad), developers seem to run into problems with the new Retina display as 10Tons explains. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft Serverproblems Delted Xbox Live Achievements

March 14th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Gamers world-wide are complaining as the achievements they earned during their Xbox Live and Xbox Live Arcade (both on console and Windows Phone) games went M.I.A. Read the rest of this entry »

King.com Acquires Fabrication Games

March 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Online game specialist King.com has started to make a move for mobile by acquiring Fabrication Games. Fabrication Games, based in Sweden, is a mobile development outfit specialized in iOS games. Read the rest of this entry »