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App Store Passes 3bn Milestone

January 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Barely four months after Apple announced to have passed 2 billion downloads on its App Store, Steve Jobs has the pride to announce that the service passed three billion downloads this month.

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DGADAG Returns

January 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

On January 22nd, the Dutch games industry will gather in Amsterdam with a number of presentations and group discussions. MGB will be reporting from the event.

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Microsoft to build Windows Mobile 6.5.3

January 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Again, Microsoft will be extending the life of Windows Mobile 6.5 with the release of version 6.5.3. The biggest change with the new version is the interface which will already come one step closer to Windows Phone 7.

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Admob: Android Increased 97% from October to December

January 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Over the past couple of months, HTC and Motorola delivered a few very important Android devices to the market. Admob collected some numbers on the popularity of the devices in their network.

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Glu Announces new CEO

January 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, People | No Comments »

Following the appointment of William J Miller as interim president and CEO just over a month ago, Glu has now announced who will be leading the company over the years to come; Niccolo de Masi.

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Nostromo Enters Administration – UPDATED

January 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

Nostromo is one of the old names in the mobile games Industry and was once known as a very important and well respected distributor and developer of J2me titles and other content.

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iPhone Ad Requests Surge over Christmas

January 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Admob has made new data available on the growth of the iPhone OS over the past Christmas period. Ad requests on the iPod Touch grew 96% week-on-week. For the iPhone this was just 12%.

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Palm to bring Paid Apps to Europe

January 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Palm has announced that European developers can start spreading paid apps on the App Catalog from March 2010 onward. The company saw 600 paid apps launch in the past two months.

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AppStoreHQ’s Most Blogged About Apps

January 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

AppStoreHQ gathered a list of the most talked about apps in 2009. The chart is being lead by Firemint with their Flight Control game, which isn’t for free and proves popularity of paid apps.

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App Catalog Reaches 1K Apps This Month

January 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Palm's App Catalog has nearly reached a milestone of one thousand apps and games, hardly a year after Palm released the first WebOS based mobile phone.