Posts Tagged ‘BlackBerry’

Verizon’s App Store Rollout Imminent

January 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

ME reports that the launch of Verizon’s App Store is imminent. The US based operator will first launch its consumer channel on RIM’s BlackBerry platform according to reports at CES.

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Flurry and ComScore’s Present Mobile Audience Measurement

January 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Flurry (which has just merged with Pinch Media) has now announced a new collaboration with ComScore. The two will team up for mobile audience measurement services.

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iPhone Leading Sales in the US

December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

In Nielsen’s latest report, the analyst shows that the iPhone is now holding 4% of the market. With this achievement, Apple has beaten the BlackBerry in one of the most important markets. BB is now second with 3.7% for the 8300 series devices.

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RIM Opens Public Beta Testing Possibilities

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

BlackBerry developers can now attract consumers to test their Beta applications and games. Consumers can find the latest Beta released in a category called Test Center.

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DevCon: Rim Announces OpenGL Support

November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

At the BlackBerry Developer Conference, RIM announced to start implementing OpenGL ES into their handsets. With the implementation of OpenGL, the company is increasing its commitment toward the mobile games industry.

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DevCon: Age Ratings Coming to BB App World

November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Good news for developers of adult games and applications. RIM is working on an age rating system to allow mature themed content to be sold on BlackBerry App World.

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DevCon: RIM and Adobe Team up

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

RIM has announced a new collaboration with Adobe to bring rich internet content to the BlackBerry platform. The collaboration will allow Flash developers to bring their creations to the platform.

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DevCon: RIM Announces In-Game Billing and more…

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

At the BlackBerry Developer Conference yesterday, RIM announced a whole lot of new goodness for BlackBerry developers like a new advertising network, In-Game Billing, LBS and Content Push services.

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Gartner’s Android Predictions for 2012

October 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Gartner has put some research in the future of Android and it seems the OS is here to stay. The company expects that Android will outsell iPhone OS in about two years but might not be able to beat Symbian.

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Handango’s Champions

October 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Mobile games and apps portal Handango announced the winners of their 2009 Champion Awards last week. They have been announced for the platforms Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile;