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Square Enix Receives Warner’s Blessings for Eidos Acquisition

February 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Last week, we reported that Square Enix is interested in acquiring SCI/Eidos. Today, we can inform you that one of Eidos' biggest shareholders, Time Warner, has given Square Enix the green light for the acquisition.

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MWC: Device Anywhere Signs Zed

February 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Zed has signed a deal with DeviceAnywhere to improve its global content development. Through this deal, the company hopes to speed up it's testing process in order to lower the testing costs.

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MWC: Cometa and End2End to Supply Indonesian Operators

February 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Cometa Wireless is a well established mobile games and content provider in the Indonesian market. Today, they announced that they will team up with End2End to supply their Indonesian operator channels.

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MWC: Fox Mobile wants Clarity from Apple on App Store

February 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The guys form MoCoNews met Fox Mobile CEO Mauro Montarano today at the Mobile World Congress. They interviewed him about Fox' experience and problems with the App Store.

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Symbian Foundation Memberships Free for All

February 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | 2 Comments »

Ever wanted to mess with one of the biggest smartphone platforms in the hope to influence the future of it? The Symbian Foundation has just put documents online for everybody that wishes to join.

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MWC: Microsoft Announces Windows Marketplace

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | 1 Comment »

Yet another “big one” over at the Mobile World Congress announced it's plans to release an “App Store”. This time it's Microsoft who will have it's Windows Marketplace ready when it will launch Windows Mobile 6.5.

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MWC: Zeemote Goes Solo

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »

It's clear, MGB is a fan of innovation and as so, we have been a fan of the Zeemote. Sources over at the event revealed to us that the Zeemote will no longer be exclusively available with phone bundles.

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MWC: O2 Rewards Litmus Testers

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

O2's Litmus is probably one of the App Store concepts that we covered the most while it's not even on the market. Since a few weeks, Litmus has been open for Beta testing, and now O2 has teamed up with Mob4Hire to increase the testing quality.

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MWC: Nokia and Adobe Launch $10 Million Fund

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

Nokia and Adobe announced the creation of the $10 million Open Screen Project fund, which is designed to help developers create applications and services for mobile, desktop, and consumer electronics devices using the Adobe Flash platform.

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MWC: Nokia Opens Ovi App Store

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Lately we came across many rumours saying that Nokia would be launching an App Store concept in order to compete with Apple's. Today, the company unveiled it's plans for the Ovi store.