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Details new iPhone Emerge

May 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A Chinese user on WeiPhone posted a screenshot revealing technical updates of the ‘new iPhone’. He also commented on some of the hardware rumors that are flying around.

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Warner Bros to Distribute for Cobra Mobile

May 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Chillingo was one of the first companies we noticed that started to distribute mobile games to the App Store. While the App Store is available directly to all operators, it seems to be a very interesting business model as Warner Bros is jumping into that market as well with Cobra Mobile.

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Experts on Operators and Their App Stores

May 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Last week, Opinions in Mobile posted an interesting question toward their expert panel; Do you think operators will fight back in APPSTORES and bring a competing proposition, what is your view on them succeeding?

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TSA Signs InLogic

May 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

The Slovakian developer InLogic has signed an important deal with Total Sports Asia (TSA) to distribute ringtones, wallpapers and mobile games across TSA’s mobile client network.

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Strategy Analytics: Android Grows 900% in 2009

May 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Strategy Analytics reported that they expect Android shipments to be increased by a massive 900% over the year. Not that hard since the OS is only available at a handful of handsets at the moment.

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Baby News – Stu

May 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | 6 Comments »

The mobile games industry is one big family. As that family is expending, we will start featuring something new called Baby News. As so, we congratulate Stu from Pocket Gamer today. We don’t know if the little one has stuck it’s head out already, but we know it’s about to happen. Congratulations! (leave your messages after the jump).

Glu’s Q1 2009

May 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Yesterday, Glu has announced it’s financial results for the first quarter of 2009. Losses are down, which is a positive sound. We analysed the press release and conference call about it.

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BoosterMedia Opens Flash Lite Gaming Portal

May 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

The Dutch company BoosterMedia has launched a new flash portal called GamesPlaza.mobi. Through the portal, developers can make available their free Flash Lite based mobile games.

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SEGA Ditches Glu for Gameloft?

May 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | 5 Comments »

It seems Glu is getting a new kick toward the it's grave as one of it's biggest partners, SEGA, seems to be switching to it's number 1 competitor Gameloft!

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EA’s FY 2008-2009

May 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

EA announced their full year results over their financial year 2008-2009. Though cost reductions are still ongoing, mobile seems to be performing well for the company.