Posts Tagged ‘SonyEricsson’

Sony to Acquire SonyEricsson?

March 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

The latest industry rumours say that Ericsson is interested in selling it's share of SonyEriccson to JV partner Sony. Does this mean that the much rumoured PSP phone will come anyway?

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Symbian Expects Significant Growth next Quarter

March 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The Symbian Foundation expects that it's market share will get a huge boost next quarter as the operating system is finally going open source. It expects to be embedded in more low end handsets.

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Nokia, Genuitec and Motorola start Pulsar, Others Join

March 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 1 Comment »

Most of you are probably still dreaming of an ideal world where there is no porting needed to get your mobile game published on any platform you want. This might become reality if it's up to Pulsar.

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More Rumours on PSP Phone

March 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »

Will the PSP phone remain vaporware? That could very well be, but with SonyEricsson not allowed the rights to the PSP brand, Sony might be cooking up something itself.

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MWC: SonyEricsson Takes Entertainment Unlimited Proposition on Content

February 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

SonyEricsson has launched a new content initiative called Entertainment Unlimited. This new content proposition should enable the company to compare with Nokia's Ovi services and Apple's App Store.

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Zed Wins SE Content Award 2008

February 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Spain based mobile entertainment company ZED has won a SonyEricsson Content Award at their 2008 contest. Their game Bubble Boom won over various non-gaming entries in the same category.

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PSP Phone Won’t Come (from SE)

January 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

The much rumoured PSP phone will not come. Even though Sony has made it's Bravia, Cybershot and Walkman brands available to SonyEricsson. The company expressed it's intention to reserve the PSP for Sony only products.

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SE’s PlayNow brings Mobile Games to the Shops

January 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

In Asia, SonyEricsson has started a new content offensive. The company is selling PlayNow content, including mobile games, directly via a dedicated, automated sales unit called a 'Download Kiosk'.

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Zeemote Hits Mexico With Telcel

December 11th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »

The guys behind Zeemote seem to be re-doing their Dutch launch earlier this year in Mexico. The team just announced that the Zeemote will be launching on the Telcel network, bundled with the good old SE W760i.

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UIQ Dies

October 28th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

It’s consolidation time again. This time we aren’t going to announce a game developer that went belly up. This time we say goodbye to a complete platform and it’s called UIQ.

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