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Glu’s Q209 Earnings Call

August 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Glu's earnings call has been put online. In the conversation, Greg outlines a lot of details about Glu's performance and expectations on Apple's App Store. Marketing will be key in improving their business.

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EA Mobile’s FY10 Financial Results

August 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA has closed their financial 2010 and reported their revenues over the past quarter (Q209 for most companies). Though the overall revenues are down, EA Mobile revenues keep climbing.

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Glu’s Q209 Financial Results

August 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Glu has reported it's second quarter financials for 2009. It's been a historic quarter for Glu as CEO Greg Ballard has announced that he wants to leave the company.

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Microsoft Claims WindowsPhone.nl

August 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | 1 Comment »

It seems the branding Windows Mobile to Windows Phone has already been started by Microsoft as the Redwood giant has started a claim for WindowsPhone.nl, a domain owned by a hobbyist.

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Apple Starts an App Store Sweep

August 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Apple has pulled well over 900 apps from the App Store, all belonging to one and the same developer. The have been pulled due to quality and licensing issues.

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Vodafone NL Prepares MyWeb for iPhone

August 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Vodafone NL has recently started to replace it's Live! portal by the new MyWeb portal (we wrote about the migration some time ago). As a next step, the operator prepared the portal for the iPhone.

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App Pulled? Dev Pays…

August 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The whole storm around Google's Google Voice app seems far from over as Apple has pulled several similar apps offline. As a result, consumers are filing complaints and Apple expects iPhone developers to cover the refunds.

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Discussion: Liberty of App Store Approval Policies

August 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Open Discussions, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Over at Opinions in Mobile, there is a new issue addressed about the App Store. With Google Voice being banned from the App Store and the FCC investigating it, Jan asked the experts what their take on it is.

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Namco Hires Jonathan Kromrey

August 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

More news surfaces on Namco's new Apple Games unit as they hired Jonathan Kromrey (fa ormer Apple games producer) to head up the division as general manager.

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Industry Jokes, Where’s the Limit?

August 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox | 3 Comments »

All over the industry, we have been pulling jokes on each other for years and most of them are funny. Who doesn't remember the famous animated handjob logo from Hands-On for example? This time however, the crew from Digital Chocolate got in serious problems due to a small joke from a competitor.