Posts Tagged ‘Widgets’

MWC: Samsung to End Dumbphones!?

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Bada | No Comments »

It seems the end is over for the dumbphone if we have to believe Samsung. Though the manufacturer still creates a large amount of feature phones, it is expected that Bada will be their new OS.

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MWC: Ericsson’s eStore Launches

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

It has been hanging in the air for over a year already, Ericsson’s eStore. It has been unveiled today at the Mobile World Congress. At the launch, the store already holds 30.000 apps and games.

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BlackBerry Announces Widgets Platform

October 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

BlackBerry seems to be on overdrive lately when it comes to attracting new developers to their platform. Today, they announced their brand new Widget platform to bring smaller developer on board.

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Vodafone Renames MyWeb to 360?

September 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Many sources say this week will be the big rollout of the Vodafone 360 platform in several countries. A few months back we already reported on a softlaunch of Vodafone MyWeb in the Netherlands.

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Vodafone NL Prepares MyWeb for iPhone

August 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Vodafone NL has recently started to replace it's Live! portal by the new MyWeb portal (we wrote about the migration some time ago). As a next step, the operator prepared the portal for the iPhone.

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Verizon Joins JIL

April 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

Verizon is joining the Joint Innovation Lab. This initiative (which has been started by Vodafone, Softbank and Chine Mobile) is focusing at developing a global widget platform in the hope to create on standard for all OS’s.

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MWC: T-Mobile Signs up for Nokia’s Ovi!?

February 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Just under a year ago, T-Mobile announced that they would stop selling Nokia handsets because of Nokia's Ovi service. Now, PocketGamer reports that T-Mobile is embracing the Ovi store on it's network.