First Games Hit Kindle

August 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Kindle | No Comments »

Ever since Amazon announced the first partners for Kindle game development, the company went in whispermode. Today however, Amazon released the first two games to owners of the latest Kindle models. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple; PDF Security Fix Ready to Go

August 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In response to the recently discovered PDF exploit, Apple announced to have a fix ready to be rolled out with the next update of iOS for the iPhone and the iPad. Not blaming Adobe though… Read the rest of this entry »

Vodafone’s HTC Desire Update Criticized by Clients

August 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Vodafone has pushed an update for the HTC Desire to Android 2.1 while consumers have been expecting 2.2 which is being rolled out by HTC toward non-operator models, but that is not all… Read the rest of this entry »

Fox Mobile Goes up for Sale

August 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

News Corp has decided it will part ways with their FOX Mobile unit. FOX Mobile originated from a marriage between Jamster/Jamba and FOX Mobile, both owned by News Corp at that time. Read the rest of this entry »

NPD: Android Takes the Lead, Google: 200.000 New Androids a Day

August 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

NPD has announced that Android is the leading platform in the US. Google’s Eric Schmidt announced that the company is currently registering 200.000 new Android phones a day. Read the rest of this entry »

Part 2 of Bada Devbook Available

August 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Bada | No Comments »

Following our post a few weeks back, Samsung released the second part of their developer guide for the Bada platform as a free download. Read the rest of this entry »

Financials: Gameloft’s Q2 – Mobile Remains Core Business

August 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gameloft has also reported their second quarter financials. The company shows solid growth on the iOS platforms and reaffirms that mobile remains core business for the downloadable games publisher. Read the rest of this entry »

Financials: Glu’s Q2, $3.9 Million Down Year-on-Year

August 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Glu has closed their second quarter with $16 Million in revenues. That is $3.9 million down year-on-year as the company is changing from the traditional J2me business to a smartphone-only model. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple Leaves iPhone & iPad Wide Open for PDF Exploit

August 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Security companies world-wide criticize Apple as the company is leaving their complete collection of iOS devices open to a PDF exploit only jailbreakers are able to protect themselves from. Read the rest of this entry »

Financials: EA’s Q1 2010 (Q2 2010 for us)

August 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA has reported a total profit of $96 Million over the first quarter of their fiscal year 2011. That is an increase in revenues of $330 million year-on-year. Read the rest of this entry »