Posts Tagged ‘Problems’

PlayMesh’s Fishies In-App Purchases go Wrong, Bigtime…

July 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

PlayMesh is one of the first and biggest publishers of freemium games on the App Store. With their latest game, Fishies, it seems like the company ran into troubled waters.

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Dutch iPhone Repair Service Warns Consumers About iOS 4.0

June 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

A Dutch iPhone repair service has sent out a warning to the media that consumers should not upgrade their iPhone 3GS models to iOS 4.0 as there are simply too many problems.

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iPhone 4 and iOS 4.0 Problems Stack Up

June 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Over the time that MGB has been in ‘holiday mode’, we did keep track of all the fuzz around the introduction of the new iPhone and iPhone OS (iOS). What went wrong and what’s next?

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Windows Mobile 6.5.3 SDK Released & Revoked

January 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Accidently, Microsoft has released the Windows Mobile 6.5.3 SDK on their website. Shortly after publication, the first quality complaints were filed and Microsoft took the SDK back offline.

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Microsoft Holding Back Windows Marketplace Payments

January 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Intomobile has a story about Microsoft holding back the revenue payments from Windows Mobile developers who have published their apps and games on Windows Marketplace.

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OIVO: Belgian Teens and their Mobiles

January 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Belgian consumer authority OIVO has released a report that details mobile usage under teens. According to the report, 90% of the teenagers (10-17 yr) own a mobile phone.

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What’s up at Arphiola

November 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

We didn’t even finish our story on Youpark and already we received messages that a distributor called Arphiola is having problems paying bills and respecting contracts.

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What’s up at YouPark

November 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

YouPark is one of the bigger names in mobile games and applications might be in trouble. Shape Services just posted a message on LinkedIn in which they warm other developers to start chasing their money.

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Twistbox in Financial Problems!?

April 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

The past couple of weeks we have received numerous complaints from mobile game developers about Twistbox not paying it’s bills. Some accounts are rumored to be 6 months overdue. We contacted the company.

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OpenMoko Runs into Problems

April 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

For those that remember (this goes some time back), OpenMoko was a foundation that aimed at building mobile phones based on open source hardware (and probably software).

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