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CTIA: BlackBerry App World Launches

April 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

As rumored all over the net (and at MGB of course) last week, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry App World sales channel went live today for consumers in Canada , the US and the UK.

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GDC: 16 Wii Games Profitable

April 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

The mobile games industry seems to be far better off then that of the consoles when we look at an interview with Nintendo of America’s head of marketing Reggie Fils-Aime.

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D-I-Y Certification at DeviceAnywhere

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

DeviceAnywhere has released yet another handy tool for developers and publishers. From now on, they will be able to do various certification processes themselves.

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Google Removes Android Apps for T-Mobile

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Some Android developers are having a very bad day today. Google has removed various applications from the Android Market as they would violate the usage agreement of T-Mobile USA.

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Update on Disney Mobile

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A few weeks back we reported that a lot of rumors where flying around that Disney was going to stop its efforts in the mobile games market. During the GDC, we received an update from the company about those rumours.

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More details Windows Marketplace Surface

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

As the launch of Microsoft's own App Store (Windows Marketplace for Mobile) is nearing, more details have been revealed to the Windows Mobile development community.

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New Xperia Panel Certification Program

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

Designing mobile games for Xperia Panels might not be that popular at the moment, but for those that do develop those, or other applications, there will be a certification program to guard the overall quality of the system.

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Zed and Tanla in new JV

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zed and Tanla Solutions have set up a new joint venture in India. Through this joint venture, both companies hope to successfully exploit the huge Indian mobile VAS market.

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GlobalFun Hires Mikael Nerde

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Mobile game developer and publisher GlobalFun has announced that it will be adding Mikael Nerde to its board of directors. Mikael used to be head of applications acquisitions and content planning at SonyEricsson.

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Windows Mobile adds Widgets

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Following the success of many smaller OS's, Microsoft has finally decided to start adding Widgets to Windows Mobile. The Widget platform will be available from Windows Mobile 6.5 onward.