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PSP Go Room, Rewards and more

September 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

At the Tokyo Gameshow, Sony unveiled more details about the upcoming PSPgo. Before the end of the year, the company will roll out PSP Room, a Playstation Home like environment.

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HandyGames Releases Second iPhone Games Analysis

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In their analysis series, HandyGames checks out the smaller marketing details of games on the App Store. As with the first series, they manage to find nice little details that can matter for marketing.

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Project Pink Uncovered

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile, Platforms: XNA, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

We expected it for a long time, but Microsof't Project Pink seems to be all about the first official Microsoft mobile phones (not counting the Sidekick's from Danger which got acquired by MS).

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BlackBerry Security Policies Outlined

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | 1 Comment »

Over at the BlackBerry Develop Blog, the company started a three part series on BlackbBerry's IT policies. With business safety in mind, it could very well be the case that consumers are not allowed to install your games.

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Palm’s Pre Confirmed for EU Launches

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Palm's long awaited Pre is set to be introduced in Europe. Both in the UK (16-10) as well as in Germany (13-10), the device will be sold by operator O2, but it will be available in more countries.

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PICNIC09: Vodafone 360 in Detail

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Today in Amsterdam, Vodafone presented the Vodafone 360 environment we spoke about earlier this week. The CEO of Vodafone UK admitted they underestimated the introduction of the iPhone, but this should make up for it.

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Graphics Booster for HTC Phones Revealed

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Dutch developer ChainFire has released version 1.2 of it's GfxBoost tool for HTC smartphones. Though the app does cash in on CPU resources, it manages to boost the quality of 2D graphics.

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Admob on iPhoneOS Adoption

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple has released their OS update about two weeks back, so the guys over at admob took the time to investigate how money consumers have taken the time to upgrade their device to firmware 3.1.

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Ovi Testing Re-Download Service

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The guys at AllAboutSymbian have uncovered that Nokia is field testing a re-download service for Nokia's Ovi store. This means apps and games will be tied to a person and not a set device.

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Apple Offers VIP Support

September 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Many developers have been complaining about the submissions system from Apple since it was introduced. Now it seems some developers are getting a royal treatment by Apple.

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