First Windows Phone with NFC Hits Orange France

April 11th, 2012 by Roelof Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Nokia has started selling their first smartphone based on Windows Phone with support for NFC. It is the all new, budget friendly Nokia Lumia 610. Nokia has released many NFC phones over the past couple of years, but Windows Phone didn’t allow it till now. Read the rest of this entry »

Qualcomm Invests in BlueStacks App Player

April 11th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

BlueStacks, an emulator that allows PC users to launch Android apps on their personal computers, has attracted an investment from Qualcomm. The investment follows downloads of the player passing the 1 million mark. Read the rest of this entry »

LicenseMyCode, A new Source of Revenue

April 11th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

It seems there is a new source of revenue for mobile developers. The new project is called LicenseMyCode and allows developers to sell non-exclusive licenses to their sourcecode. Read the rest of this entry »

HTC Sales Drop 35%

April 11th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

HTC seems to be struggling to keep hold of their market share. Competitor Samsung seems to outsmart them in new devices and, talking about the Dutch market, in PR. Read the rest of this entry »

Blogberry Lines up The Appstores

April 11th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Tech site Blogberry.de has released an infographic detailing how the app stores really stack up. Those of RIM, Apple and Google that is. Windows Phone and other appstores are missing in action. Read the rest of this entry »

Amazon to add in-app Purchases to their Appstore

April 10th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

While Amazon is hot on the heels of Apple when it comes to revenues from app sales, the giant is finally releasing a feature Apple and others have been relying on for quite a while. In-app purchases… Read the rest of this entry »

Nokia Releases Free Microsoft Office for Symbian

April 10th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Back in 2009, Nokia announced that it, together with Microsoft, would start the development of Microsoft Office for Symbian Devices. Following up on the EOL status for Symbian, Nokia finally released Microsoft Office for the OS. Read the rest of this entry »

RIM to Block Sideloading on PlayBook

April 10th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PlayBook OS (QNX) | No Comments »

RIM’s most popular handout, the PlayBook, will soon get an update that will disallow consumers to sideload their apps onto the tablet. From that moment on, all installs are obligated to go through BlackBerry App World. Read the rest of this entry »

Unity Passes 1 Million Registered Developers

April 10th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Unity Technologies, the provider of the well known middleware, announced that 1 million developers are registered to their services. On top of that, the engine and tools had over 6 million downloads to date. Read the rest of this entry »

New Moderation Policy

April 9th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in About Us | 1 Comment »

Due to a massive increase in comment spam, we will no longer directly publish comments on stories. All comments will be checked by us before they are visible on the website. We’re sorry for the inconvenience caused.