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Motorola Starts Android Developer Programme

July 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Motorola is betting on Android for it's newest smartphones. To make sure they have enough backing from the Android development community, they opened up a special developer programme.

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Google Reveals New Alpha Version Android

July 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

This weekend, Google released their newest Alpha version of the Android OS. This one is called Donut and follows on their CupCake release (version 1.5).

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Palm Alignes SDK and OS at v1.1

July 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Palm has updated their WebOS firmware to version 1.1. This is in-line with the Mojo SDK version 1.1 build 12 which was released on the same day. This makes testing of apps a lot more easy for developers.

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Microsoft Plans In-Store WM Promotions

July 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Most of you have probably read that Microsoft plans to open it's own stores to compete with Apple (various sources reported on it). Their store concept has leaked on the internet and it seems like Windows Mobile is one of the products which will be promoted in those stores.

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Fishlabs Shares iPhone OS Demographics

July 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Recently, Fishlabs released their Barclaycard Waterslide Extreme advertgame on the Ap Store. Within the first 5 days, the game was downloaded 2 million times and the company gathered some interesting demographics from it.

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5 Years of MobileGamesBlog.com

July 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in About Us | 1 Comment »

While logging in to our back-end last week, I noticed we have something to celebrate. In July 2004, Ashu Mathura founded MGB. After five years it is still one of the best read resources for mobile gaming professionals.

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Pixalon Goes Social, Announces new Projects

July 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Recent research shows that companies who adopt social media see a revenue increase of 18%. This is enough reason for Pixalon Studios to go social by adopting Twitter.

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Gbanga Goes Beta

July 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Location Based Gaming | No Comments »

Gbanga is a new framework for creating mobile LBS games. The system just went Beta in Switzerland and the first game to test it has been rolled out in Zurich where consumers are now hunting animals.

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Greystripe Does an Axe Game

July 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Though most of you consider Greystripe to be just an advertising network for your mobile games, the company has now shown capable of delivering a full branded game experience for the iPhone.

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WIN to Distribute Digital Chocolate in Puzzle Magazines

July 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Win announced that the company will be distributing mobile games from Digital Chocolate to readers of various puzzle magazines in the UK via simple SMS shortcodes.