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Symbian Foundation App Store Coming?

April 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The Symbian foundation is said to be working on a new App Store foundation. Indeed, a foundation as they don’t seem to be interested in having a monopoly like Google and Microsoft.

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Experts on the Future of OS’s

April 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

The Multimedia Research Consultancy has released more information about what experts think of the industry. In their latest release, they open up on the future of the mobile operating systems.

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Tele-Visie: Palm Pre Launch Tightly Directed

April 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Yesterday we visited the Dutch Tele-Visie event. Besides the free food and drinks, the event is known for leaking information on upcoming devices. As so, we hoped to get a bit more information about developing mobile games for the Palm Pre.

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Symbian Foundation Launches

April 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Though the new branding and website have been live for several weeks now, last friday has been declared as the official launching day of the new Symbian (together with their new logo).

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Apple Limits Distribution and Development Freedom

April 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

As a direct result of alternative stores that sell apps for the iPhone, Apple has started to re-align its developer program licensing agreement with their development community.

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Palm Pre Supports PalmOS!?

April 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

The Palm Pre is already widely known for it's new webOS (it fully replaces the good old PalmOS). For those that find id hard to say goodbye though, the company will put a PalmOS emulator on their new device.

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Tapulous Licenses Coldplay

April 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Though this is still a rumour, the net is currently filled with the latest news about the TapTap Revenge games from Tapulous. Apparently, the company has signed Coldplay for a branded version.

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Gameloft Sold 200 Million Games

April 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

Gameloft has something to celebrate. The mobile games developer and publisher has announced that it has sold over 200 million games since it started it's mobile gaming business back in 2003.

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OpenMoko Runs into Problems

April 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

For those that remember (this goes some time back), OpenMoko was a foundation that aimed at building mobile phones based on open source hardware (and probably software).

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Fast & Furious Connects Players with YouTube

April 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

The developers of the latest Fast & Furious game on the App Store have brought something new to the mobile gaming community. Now, gamers can upload their fastest tracks to YouTube.