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RIM Opens Public Beta Testing Possibilities

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

BlackBerry developers can now attract consumers to test their Beta applications and games. Consumers can find the latest Beta released in a category called Test Center.

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adMob Launches on WebOS

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | 1 Comment »

adMob has been very successful on platforms like the iPhone, but Palm’s WebOS was still uncovered by the company. To support developers, the company released an open source SDK for ad invocation.

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AppventCalendar.com Successful After All

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Last week we reported about AppventCalendar.com, a website that promotes one free iPhone game every day, until Christmas. Though the second day disappointed consumers and questioned the future of the project, it seems to have become successful after all.

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Palm Closed App Catalog to Imported Pre’s

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Palm has decided to disallow imported Pre’s access to the App Catalog. This software block comes with the 1.3.1 OS update that has been dispatched by Palm toward all Pre owners.

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Ovi Opens to Dutch Consumers

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Until today, Dutch consumers could only visit the English Ovi store and where limited to charging their credit cards whenever they wanted to make a purchase. Now, the store is localized and premium SMS billing is enabled.

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Dutch Consumer Authorities Complaint about Apple

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »

Last weekend, Apple got slashed on Dutch TV for ignoring warrantee obligations as defined according to Dutch law. Consumer Authorities are now joining forces to try and convince Apple to operate in-line with the law.

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Flurry: iPod Touch Shows Success

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Flurry has released some new demographics on the popularity of the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. To their surprise, it seems the iPod Touch is expanding its reach.

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Gofresh Attracts 2 Million Mobile Gamers

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Web Apps | No Comments »

Mobile wap gaming specialist Gofresh announced it’s wap decks have attracted 2 million mobile gamers from all over the world. This proves simple browser based mobile games are still far from dead.

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GlobalFun Reorganizes

December 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

This summer, GlobalFun has been through organizational restructuring by closing down its Buenos Aires development unit. With continued changes in the market GlobalFun, is adapting itself again.