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iPhone Owners Actively Use 14% of Their Apps

October 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Flurry has provided new insights into the retention rate for applications and games that have been downloaded by consumers world-wide. It turns out that 14.8% of the apps are sticky enough to satisfy consumers in the long term.

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Palm Updates WebOS UI Guidelines

October 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

When Palm started to take in applications, their UI guidelines where too strict for games and certain application developers turned out to have problems with them as well. To satisfy developers, Palm has updated them now.

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I-Play Launches Viral Twitter/MP3 Campaign

October 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

In an effort to promote their new Hip-Hop All Stars game on the iPhone, I-Play has setup a new viral campaign based on Twitter that will allow consumers to score a free MP3 file.

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Quarter of Android Purchases get Refunded

October 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It seems a very unlucky android developer experienced a refund rate of about 25% on its mobile game while providing a LITE version. This was reported by French site Pockett.net.

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Apple Allows In-App Payments for Freebies

October 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Developers have been filing complaints about it for some time, but finally Apple has given in and granted access to offer in-game billing services within free downloads.

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Handango’s Champions

October 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Mobile games and apps portal Handango announced the winners of their 2009 Champion Awards last week. They have been announced for the platforms Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile;

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Qualcomm’s Plaza Retail Live on TIM Brazil

October 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Qualcomm closed a deal with Telecom Italia Mobile to launch their white label app store (Plaza Retail) in the Brazilian market. With the launch, Qualcomm further secures their position of Brew in the America’s.

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BMW Joins App Store Business?

October 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

One of BMW’s latest features is a digital dashboard in their cars that provide all the entertainment as well as navigation. Following in Apple’s footsteps (at least we thing), the company has now demonstrated an application store.

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Ngmoco’s Yu on Piracy, Transactions and More

October 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Gamasutra visited the GDC in China and reported on a keynote from ngmoco VP Alan Yu. He talked about topics like piracy, transactions and their social function.

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BulkPix into Publishing, Bonds Journalists Directly

October 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Following another three day trip to the Pixalon Office in Prague, I returned today to find a very interesting press release from BulkyPix in which they announce to have become an iPhone publisher like many others.