Posts Tagged ‘Games’

MWC: 300.000 360 Devices in the Market

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Vodafone has been pushing their 360 devices for only a few months and already the operator has sold over 300.000 handsets. Vodafone has 7.000 apps and games for those devices.

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I-play Discontinues J2me/Brew Development and Distribution

February 11th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Brew, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Rumors have been floating around MGB for weeks, but starting yesterday, I-play started to inform their developers about their intentions to end the support for Java and Brew based mobile games.

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IGF Nominees Revealed

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

The 2010 nominees for the Independent Games Festival Mobile have been announced. This award is aimed at mobile game developers as well as handheld developers for the NDS and the PSP.

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NeoGames Launches Mobile Scratch cards

January 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gambling | No Comments »

Neogames, a company that has been running online scratch card services in the UK, has announced to start releasing mobile versions of their online scratch card games within the UK market.

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HeroCraft Launches Android Portal

January 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Herocraft has launched a new portal on which consumers can directly purchase mobile games for Android phones. With this move, the company bypasses the Android Market.

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Playnow Arena Opens up to Android

December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

In a special Christmas video, SonyEricsson not only showcases their new Xperia X10 broadcasting possibilities, but the company also announced that developers can start uploading Android content to the Playnow Arena.

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Samsung’s Market Survey Results

December 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

With the release of Bada, Samsung also exposed the results of some consumer research they did. Samsung’s survey was held under feature phone owners in France, the UK and Italy.

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Flurry: iPod Touch Shows Success

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Flurry has released some new demographics on the popularity of the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. To their surprise, it seems the iPod Touch is expanding its reach.

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MiKandi Launches Naughty App Store

November 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

MiKandi has released a new Android based App Store to compete with the original Android Market. The big differentiator will be adult content as MiKandi promotes anything that is legally allowed.