Posts Tagged ‘Development’

Facebook Looking to Develop their own Smartphone (again)

May 28th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

Again, rumours surface that Facebook has interest in developing their own smartphone. To do so, Facebook is rumoured to have hired staff from Apple that worked on the iPhone.

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Programr Starts Android Tutorials

April 9th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

More and more bedroom developers and kids start showing interest in developing apps for their mobile devices. The tutorial website Programr has now started listing tutorials for the Android platform.

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€18 Million Available for App Development

March 26th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Nokia and Microsoft have put together a new fund that will assist developers in getting their work onto Nokia phones including Series 40, Symbian and Windows Phone. The new fund is called AppCampus.

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Sliced Bread Games Open for Business

March 23rd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A new California based game development unit has launched under the inspirational name Sliced Bread Games. The outfit consists of two pastry experts combining 12 years of experience.

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Atari Launches Pong Developer Competition

February 29th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Deals | No Comments »

Atari has set up a new development competition toward independent developers. The objective? Create the next Pong on iOS. The winner gets $100.000 and a contract at Atari.

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Microsoft Launches New WP7 Development Tool

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Microsoft has launched the beta version of Touch Studio, a new development sapp for their Windows Phone 7 devices. O yeah, it is an app that you need to run on your WP 7 device.

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Porting QT to Android Pretty Easy!?

April 5th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: QT | No Comments »

According to CuteHacks, it doesn’t take much to convert QT apps to run on the Android platform. IN a blogpost, one of the developers claims all it takes are a couple of lines of code that need to be changed.

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Namco Banda Moves Development Back to Japan

December 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Namco Bandai has announced that it will be moving all game development back to Japan. The company is dissatisfied with the results of development studios outside of Japan.

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Glu Strongly Reduces EU Headcount

November 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, People | No Comments »

The rumors have been flying around for some time, but I think we and most of our readers have been expecting this for a while. Last week, lot’s of Glu employees in Europe received their termination notice.

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Android will be the Primary Development Platform in 2011

November 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

According to research from Business Insider, Google’s Android platform (29%) will be the hottest platform to develop for in 2011, followed by Apple’s iPad (20%) and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 (20%).