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4.0 iAd Takes on Greystripe and Friends

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple is not only taking on social gaming networks but as expected, they also launch iAds mobile advertising. This will be Apple’s own advertising platform that offers native advertising API’s.

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4.0 Game Center Takes on OpenFeint and Friends

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple takes on all social gaming networks by releasing their own. With 50.700 games on the iPhone, Apple outruns the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP by far and recons it is time to take this business in their own hands.

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4.0: Business Improvements

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The business users will certainly benefit from the new iPhone OS. There will be data encryption, Mobile Device Management, Wireless App Distribution, Multiple Exchange Accounts

4.0: Stuffing Your Games in Folders

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 2 Comments »

Though consumers love to downloads huge amounts of apps, there has always been a limit of 148 apps in total. Apple will now be lifting the limit with the use of folders.

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4.0: Multitasking is a Go

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The first new feature for the iPhone OS is the biggest. Multitasking will come to the iPhone though Apple will put some limitations in place to guarantee performance of the device.

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4.0: Sales Update

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The iPhone 4.0 unveiling started off with some sales details (as usual). At the moment, the iPad sales are soaring. 450.000 units are out on the streets and Best Buy is out of stock.

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MC10: Distimo: 1.600 Developers Publish on Multiple Channels

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

During their keynote at the Mobile Convention in Amsterdam, Vincent Hoogsteder took the stage to give the public some statistics and information on his company.

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MC10: Admob on the Future of Mobile Advertising

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

AdMob’s Russel Buckley visited the Mobile Convention in Amsterdam last week and he spoke about how the mobile advertising market started to move for AdMob and where it might move next.

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Greystripe Advertisers Prefer iFlash

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Just before Apple will start to make announcements on ther iAds platform (or at least, so we still believe they will), Greystripe announced survey results that back their iFlash advertising format.

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Plus+Problems for ngmoco

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

We Rule is one of the most talked about iPhone titles from ngmoco, but it seems the game is so popular, it is leading to capacity problems for their Plus+ social gaming network.