Posts Tagged ‘Symbian’

Habbo Goes Bobba

April 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Sulake, the developer of the successful Habbo Hotel and it’s mobile games, has now announced a new community aimed at mobile phones called Bobba.

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SK Telecom Plans App Store

April 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Cnet found out that South Korean operator SK Telecom is planning to launch it’s own App Store. The eta version is planned to be available in June whereas the full commercial launch will be along September.

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Symbian Foundation App Store Coming?

April 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The Symbian foundation is said to be working on a new App Store foundation. Indeed, a foundation as they don’t seem to be interested in having a monopoly like Google and Microsoft.

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Pwn2Own 5 Smartphone OS’s Remain Unhacked

March 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

During the Pwn2Own hackers event, organizer Tippingpoint challenged the hackers to find exploits for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile. In the case that an exploit would be found, that hacker would be awarded $10K.

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Symbian Foundation Release Plan Revealed

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

On the Symbian Foundation blog, David Wood revealed Symbian's plans to do a major release of the platform every six months. The Symbian versions that are currently in production are Symbian^2, Symbian^3 and Symbian^4.

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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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Kweekies, melting Pok

February 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Previews | 1 Comment »

Developer INT13 has sent us one of the coolest technology demo's we have seen this year. They showed us a very early version of their mobile game called Kweekies, which is a clever mix of Pok

Symbian Foundation Memberships Free for All

February 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | 2 Comments »

Ever wanted to mess with one of the biggest smartphone platforms in the hope to influence the future of it? The Symbian Foundation has just put documents online for everybody that wishes to join.

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Samsung Mobile Applications Launched

February 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Samsung Mobile is launching their Samsung Mobile Applications app store in the United Kingdom. “Samsung Mobile Innovator” members will be able to start selling their apps and games.

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Symbian UIQ Files for Bankruptcy

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

We already reported that all companies that once used Symbian's UIQ platform, have abandoned the Symbian UIQ company. Since Nokia announced that it will integrate UIQ's best parts into S60, it was obvious that the company behind UIQ was set to die.