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Distinctive Hires Johanna Vuorela
March 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »
Distinctive Developments has expanded it’s management team by adding Johanna Vuorela as the new Operations Manager.
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Ben is Back in The Netherlands
March 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »
Those of you operating early on the Dutch market may have known Ben, one of the most innovative operators when it came to advertising it’s mobile network.
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KPN Acquires Ortel Mobile
March 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Dutch telecoms giant KPN has closed yet another acquisition as it swallows pre-paid giant Ortel Mobile which is active as an MVNO in The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
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T-Mobile Holds Back Ovi Handsets
March 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »
Ovi, Nokia’s step to open up mobile content to consumers seems to be biting the Finish giant as T-Mobile Germany announced not to sell Ovi supporting handsets at this moment.
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Acer Acquires E-Ten
March 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
It seems that the smartphone market keeps shaking this year. This time, E-Ten falls as they just got acquired by Acer.
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Silverlight Hits Mobile With Nokia
March 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Silverlight | No Comments »
While the Flash Lite market is still full in development for mobile gaming, Nokia has already started looking ahead and as so, starts to support Microsoft’s Silverlight in their S60 mobile phones.
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Fishlabs Mobile Games Via E-Mail
March 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »
Fishlabs is clearly innovating as the German developer has started to deliver it’s mobile games via e-mail, which means that consumers will be ‘sideloading’ via PC to eliminate the costs of getting a mobile game.
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SCI Cuts 25% of Staff
March 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
As part of a radical restructuring plan to get the company back on track, SCI has announced to sack 25% of it’s workforce and cut off 14% of the current running projects.
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EA Mobile Hires Catalina Lou
March 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »
EA Mobile has done a new executive hire as they took former Glu exec Catalina Lou on board as the new European Sales Director.
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It seems the European business is really progressing for Artificial Life as they just released Germany’s Next Topmodel, a strongly localized game based on the TV show.