Posts Tagged ‘Qualcomm’

Qualcomm’s Plaza Retail Live on TIM Brazil

October 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Qualcomm closed a deal with Telecom Italia Mobile to launch their white label app store (Plaza Retail) in the Brazilian market. With the launch, Qualcomm further secures their position of Brew in the America’s.

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Graphics Booster for HTC Phones Revealed

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Dutch developer ChainFire has released version 1.2 of it's GfxBoost tool for HTC smartphones. Though the app does cash in on CPU resources, it manages to boost the quality of 2D graphics.

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Mike Yuen Leaves Qualcomm for Zeebo

August 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

It was to be expected as Mike Yuen had been involved in the startup of console maker Zeebo last year, but now Mike Yuen, probably the face of Qualcomm for mobile gaming, is leaving the company.

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VDC: Verizon and Qualcomm Announce Plans for BREW Growth

July 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Over at the Verizon Developer Conference, Verizon and Qualcomm have announced changes to their current mobile games platform in order to stimulate the BREW platform.

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Qualcomm Launches App Store

May 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Qualcom joins the App Store rally by releasing one as well. Their version of the App Store is called Plaza Retail and is sold as an add-on toi their Plaza Mobile Internet widget platform.

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GDC: Zeebo Partner Update

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Yesterday, we covered the news that Qualcomm is finally releasing Zeebo in the Brazilian market. Meanwhile, we have started to check around on the internet to find out which content partners already signed up for the Brew/3G based console.

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Zeebo, it’s Mobile and it’s Not

March 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Months ago, we posted about a brand called Zeebo and it's support from Qualcomm's Mike Yuen. Though speculations at that time pointed at just a new mobile gaming platform, it now turns out to be a full blown console, yet aimed at the mobile gaming market.

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Qualcomm Releases BrewMP SDK

November 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | 1 Comment »

Qualcomm Incorporated announced the availability of the software development kit (SDK) for the Company's new Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP). Brew MP is a new mobile OS.

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Platform and Hardware Fragmentation

August 28th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

It’s time for an editorial again here at MobileGamesBlog.com. Today, Mike Yuen, the one and only mobile gaming expert at Qualcomm Internet Services talks about platform and handset fragmentation in the industry.

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TIM Italy starts to Brew

November 14th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 2 Comments »

Qualcomm and TIM Italy, Italy’s largest operator, have announced to start deploying handsets which feature’s Qualcomm’s Brew solution. With this move, TIM hopes to improve it’s leadership in the market and innovate it’s 3G and HSDPA networks even more. The first games announced to go live on TIM’s Brew portal are coming from Gameloft. Also TIM announced it will use uiOne, which is the idle screen advertising system on Brew.

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