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Jailbreak iPhone Owners Hacked

November 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

This week has become very interesting for the jailbreak community. A Dutch hacker managed to get into the iPhone and even got control over consumers’ iTunes accounts.

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Financials: Gameloft’s Q3

November 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gameloft has reported its third quarter financial results. The company has shown growth once again. The company is up 15% year-on-year but that’s less growth then the other quarters have shown.

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Nokia Still Leading Handset Sales in Q3

November 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Strategy Analytics has disclosed numbers on global handset sales. Nokia is still leading the list of vendors but Apple, LG and Samsung are continuing growth.

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Flurry: Books Surpass Games on iPhone

November 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Over the past months, books have become more and more popular on the iPhone. Over the months September and October, more books have been released then games according to Flurry.

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Ovi Re-Download Policy Widened

November 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Starting last month, we started tracking and covering Nokia's Ovi Re-Download functionality that was spotted in the wild. Following the official launch last week, the policy has already received it's first update.

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Playhaven Opens iPhone Communities

November 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Playhaven might become the next big player amongst social networks on the iPhone. The company has created thousands of mobile communities around iPhone games already and is now inviting game developers to take charge.

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DeNa Takes 20% Stake in OpenFeint

November 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Japanese mobile social network company DeNa has invested several millions into OpenFeint in order to secure a 20% stake in the (competing) iPhone based social network.

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Glu’s First Facebook Release and Virtual Currency

November 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

Earlyer on, Glu announced that it would switch from a pure mobile games publisher and developer to one that aims downloadable platforms. Facebook is part of that new target as they released their first game on it.

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N-Gage Fails Again…

November 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Many where sceptical when Nokia launched N-Gage for the second time around, but after months and months of rumours, Nokia finally admitted defeat last Friday.

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iPhone Casual Games: Lessons for Success

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Stuart Dredge is presenting a session at the Casual Games Forum about the factors that made certain games perform successfully on Apple’s App Store. The slides have just been published.

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