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Motorola Buys Into UIQ

October 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Uiq About a year since SonyEricsson acquired UI Holdings BV, parent company to UIQ Technology AB, Motorola announced to have acquired 50% from the company.

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Taito Releases Chase H.Q. 3D and Elevator Action 3D

October 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Taito Taito has brought a couple of 80’s classics back alive with the release of the Chase H.Q. 3D and Elevator Action 3D mobile games for Sprint Nextel customers.

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Fishlabs Receives Funding

October 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Fishlabs, German based developer of mobile games, has announced the closing of their latest successful funding round, led by Neuhaus Partners.

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Alawar into Mobile Gaming

October 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Alawar Alawar, a player in the PC casual games market announced to have set up a dedicated mobile games publishing and distribution division to enter the mobile games market.

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HandyGames Announces My Modeltrain 2

October 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Announcements | No Comments »

After the success of the first My Modeltrain, HandyGames will do a followup for the holidays called My Modeltrain 2

Ojom Releases E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

October 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Ojom Ojom has released a new mobile game starring everybody’s favourite alien E.T. In a true minigame bonanza!

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Oasys Mobile Emerges from Chapter 11

October 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Oasys Since it’s chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in July, Oasys Mobile has been working hard to recover and return healthy into the mobile business. Yesterday, Oasys announced the company announced to be healthy again.

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Nissan Uses Mobile Games as Marketing Instrument

October 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | 2 Comments »

Nissan In order to inform consumers about Nissans newest car, the Nissan Rogue, Nissan will push a lot of free mobile content toward consumers consisting of wallpapers and a Nissan branded mobile game.

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In-Fusio Goes Blackberry with Magmic

October 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Infusio In-Fusio and Magmic have announced a new partnership in which Magmic will bring In-Fusio’s most successful mobile games to the Blackberry platform.

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T-Mobile Austria Signs With Terraplay As Well

October 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Multiplayer Gaming | No Comments »

Terraplay is rapidly expanding it’s coverage along a series of T-Mobile networks around the world. After successful deployments in the UK, now the Austrians will kick off with Terraplay’s multiplayer mobile games service.