Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’

Dutch Kids Hooked on Mobile

March 23rd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Current Affairs | No Comments »

Mijn Kind Online, a consumer watchdog organization for children in The Netherlands has sent out a report detailing the youngest mobile consumers in the Netherlands.

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Baidu to Build a Mobile OS

March 23rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Baidu is pretty much the Google of China and as so, it is planning to build a mobile OS, pretty much like Google has done a couple of years back. There doesn’t seem to be any urgency behind it though.

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Developer Explains Hot to Create ‘HD’ Apps on Android

December 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Though some developers might have already developed a way to include mobile and tablet versions of an app in a single HD, some might still be puzzling over this. AI Solution published a howto.

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AppCon: Big App Productions – Hand Held MMO

November 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Richard Hasinki has been creating mobile games and apps for 11 years, starting with WAP and SMS based ones. He is experienced in J2me, Brew, Symbian, iPhone and Android amongst others. Right now, his success comes from an MMO.

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Samsung Apps to Merge TV and Mobile

October 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »

Samsung has announced that it will make porting apps from mobile to their internet@tv service easier for developers. It will also start charging for app downloads on TV’s.

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The FWA Goes Bit on Mobile Websites.. no, Apps that is!

October 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

FWA, known for their excellent selections in the Website of the Day awards, has opened a mobile section that focuses on Mobile Websites, and more importantly, mobile apps.

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NPD: Kids Love Games (Surprise!)

September 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

According to research from NPD, kids love to play games on their mobile phones. The average kid owned mobile phone has around ten mobile games installed.

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Financials: EA’s Q1 2010 (Q2 2010 for us)

August 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA has reported a total profit of $96 Million over the first quarter of their fiscal year 2011. That is an increase in revenues of $330 million year-on-year.

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ZED Licenses Monty Python

July 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Zed Worldwide, the Spanish mobile content company that acquired Player X, has announced to have licensed Monty Python from Space Enterprises Limited in the UK.

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Vision Mobile: Android Most Popular Development Platform

July 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Vision Mobile has sent out an enquiery to 400 developers to track their thoughts on all those different mobile development platforms out there. It turns out Android is the most popular of them.