South Korea to Accept the iPhone 4

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

South Korea has approved the iPhone 4 for launch on their mobile market. South Korea is very strict about allowing mobile phones from non-Korean manufacturers on its market. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple Drops Game Center for iPhone 3G and iTouch 2G

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

Apple has just released the third beta of iOS 4.1, meaning it will soon be ready to ship to consumers world-wide. iOS 4.1 is still iPhone only so iPad users will still have to wait some time before they can use multitasking. Read the rest of this entry »

RIM Releases BlackBerry 6 & BlackBerry Torch

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

RIM has released their new BlackBerry 6 OS and the BlackBerry Torch as their answer to the iOS and Android devices that are storming the market they once dominated. Read the rest of this entry »

New York Times to Assist Other Newspapers

August 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

The New York Times has started to offer other newspaper publishers the use of their Press Engine that should shorten development time for iPhone and iPad newspaper apps. Read the rest of this entry »

Hexage: 97% Android Piracy in Asia

August 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS | 1 Comment »

Google has recently started to increase security on the Android Market and if we have to believe developer Hexage, Google might already be too late as in Asia, 97% of his gamers play with a pirated version. Read the rest of this entry »

Mike Breslin from Mumbo-Jumbo to Glu

August 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Mike Breslin will be joining Glu’s new line-up of executives. Breslin comes from Mumbo-Jumbo, a big developer and publisher of casual (online) games. Read the rest of this entry »

Playlogic Goes Bankrupt

August 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following about a week after our first coverage, Dutch publisher and developer Playlogic has now officially filed for bankruptcy. It is to be expected that all talents will be officially fired within the next days. Read the rest of this entry »

RIM Leaks BlackBerry Demographics & BlackBerry 6 API’s

August 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

BlackBerryCool.com managed to get their hands on a developer presentation from RIM that had yet to be released to the development community. Apart from a large amount of API related data, it also contains insights into the BlackBerry owners. Read the rest of this entry »

EA to Publish Popcap’s Zuma’s Revenge

August 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

EA Mobile has signed a new publishing deal with Popcap Games for their latest mobile game in the Zuma range called Zuma’s Revenge. Read the rest of this entry »

Canalys: Nokia Still Leading in Q2 2010

August 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to Canalys, Nokia is still leading Phone sales on a global level. Canalys includes not only smartphone, but also featurephone sales over all markets. Read the rest of this entry »