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InfoSpace’s mobile strategy

November 21st, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

As most of you know, InfoSpace has closed the Elkware Studio earlier this year and their Q3 report ended with the following message;

"We’ve taken quick action to address the disappointing loss of business, aligning costs with future revenues to continue building on the strong foundation we have in mobile technology and online and mobile discovery," said Jim Voelker, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of InfoSpace, Inc.

Unfortunately, Jim Voelker’s closing statement says nothing about mobile games or content. The $ 57.8 million restructuring charges has the following breakdown according to MocoNews;

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Gameloft broadens in Korea

November 20th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

Often people think Gameloft is anywhere

Bango rolls over Mediaplazza

November 20th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

MediaPlazza and Bango inked a deal in which Bango will take responsibility for a big part of MediaPlazza’s billing. With this deal, Bango adds 60.000 mobile content stores to it’s network. For MediaPlazza, this deal means access to wap billing all over the world with just one partner and the possibility on many operators to use Bango’s BillRank, which is a method for putting the content directly on the consumer’s bill. Bango will also accept Craditcards trough PayPal, meaning Bango offers the full scale of payment methods.

Will 2007 be the year of EA?

November 20th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Moconews has put an editorial online regarding EA‘s plans to finally make a move into Europe and Asia.

Gamasutra on the Namco

November 20th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

We have reported before about Namco’s deal to distribute some of the Aruze titles in North America. Gamasutra seized the moment to catch up with Namco on this deal in an interview.

Hindy mobile games to overtake music

November 20th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

The Financial Express (this does give pop-ups) has put up an article about the Hindi mobile games industry. It explains how mobile games are massively catching up to the ringtone market with a current ratio of 5 games on every 7 ringtones. The main reason for this is the licensing on Bollywood titles, which attract enough attention on the local markets to make it worth while.

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Interview with Shadow Light Games

November 17th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

PocketGamer has put up the spotlight at mobile games start-up Shadow Light Games. With their latest mobile game Freddie Flintoff All-Round Cricket being distributed by Player One, these ex-Elixir Studios guys are a team to watch.

Symbian’s 100.000.000 milestone

November 16th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | 2 Comments »

Symbian announced to have a massive 100 million Symbian supporting devices in the market of which 13 million where sold in the last quarter. Symbian started in 2000 with the Ericsson A830. Currently Ericsson is joined by nine other vendors and those are backed by 250 operators world wide.

Say

November 16th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 1 Comment »

As you know, we keep track of a lot of blogs and love to link excellent bits that fellow bloggers all over the world found. However today thanks to Alessandro, a blog popped up that deserves some attention to all the work listed there. The blog is maintained by Antony and features all kinds of handy development tools like Screenshot takers and CPU trackers. Worth a look for most developers!