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Greystripe receives $ 1.2 Million funding

October 12th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

More funding news today as San Francisco based Greystripe announced its first $ 1.2 million funding round was completed. The funding was coming from Incubic Venture Fund, Monitor Ventures and WS Investment Company. Greystripe is known for it’s ad subsidized gaming network.

Kiloo: Trolls & Dolls this Christmas

October 12th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

Traditionally, Danish publisher Kiloo will entertain us with a number of products for the Christmas season. This years line-up is even more impressive then the ones before as they bring us 4 titles. Two of these we already know from before as it’s the return of Hugo X-Mas Ice and Hugo X-Mas Snow which have received fresh porting for the season to compliment the newest mobile phones found under the Christmas tree. The warmest present Kiloo will give us is Jodie Marsh which will pose in a winter wonder land (yes, we’d like her under our tree as well). From the glamour that Jodie brings us, the last title brings us back to earth, or actually into space with Petey and Jaydee’s X-Mashed. Kiloo expects to have all these titles distributed before the end of the month.

Looking at this massive lineup we asked Karl Woods why Kiloo puts so much effort in creating and updating it’s catalogue to support 4 titles where many others just put one game into the market around this time.

“Why should we be any different to the traditional retail space, where xmas is all about choice. We want to give our customers the choice in selecting what’s right for them.” Said Karl Woods, EVP Sales & Marketing at Kiloo.

Airplay received $ 14 M funding

October 12th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Airplay, a US based company focused at mobile games and video (which is the companies’ main drive) secured $ 14 million in its latest funding round. Investors for this round of funding where Motorola, Qualcomm, JK & B Capital, Oneset Ventures and Redpoint.

The funding also brings a new director to the board of Airplay. Ali Shedman will fulfill this role on behalf of JK & B Capital.

"The funding now provides us with the financial and strategic muscle required to execute on this massive new market opportunity," said Morgan Guenther, chairman and CEO of AirPlay.

"AirPlay has a completely unique and transformative offering that stands to change the way we experience traditional television," said Ali Shadman of JK and B Capital. "We believe the possibilities are endless for growing their service across many different types of content programming and live events."

Main differences in Flash Lite Versions

October 12th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

As you all know, we’re posting a lot of news around Flash and have Adrian’s Flash Lite diaries in which we will release the second part tomorrow. Yesterday, Alessandro Pace posted an article on his Forum Nokia Blog about the main differences between the current Flash Lite versions available for mobile. A must read for everyone entering Flash Lite development.

Vodafone Live! Launched in Bulgaria

October 12th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Bulgarian operator Mobitel has launched the Vodafone Live! service for it’s 3G subscriber base. With this launch, Mobitel is following a number of operators which are launching the Live! services on their decks under the Vodafone name whilst remaining to operate themselves under their own name. All this comes at a time of global reorganization at Vodafone all over the world.

Vodafone in the game

October 11th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Connected Gaming | No Comments »

Vodafone is apparently bridging the communication boundaries between the real world and the popular online game Second Life. Rumors say Vodafone will open it’s own island and create applications that allow communication between Second Life and persons in the real world trough an instant messaging service application.

Artificial Life hooks CBS

October 11th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

CBS Digital Media and Artificial Life announced their partnership to create and market mobile games based on the CBS brands. Artificial life will take care of on-deck sales whereas CBS will arrange the off-deck distribution and marketing.

"This license agreement with CBS Digital Media opens up a new and promising business opportunity and partnership with some of the best content brands out there. The licensed properties are very well known throughout many countries in the world so we expect high interest from our clients as well as from resellers and operators. We will develop some very innovative and cool new mobile games with features so far unseen in this field. The first product will be released already very soon," said Eberhard Schoeneburg, CEO of Artificial Life.

IMGA, The nominees

October 10th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

The IMGA judges have announced the list of 25 nominees for the 2007 IMGA Awards. And the nominees are

Carnival of the Mobilists #48

October 9th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

This week, Helen Keegan, the industry’s technokitten, has done an excellent job at compiling all the news spread on mobile blogs around the globe. Read it now!