SE: Symbian or WinMo, One Has to Go

July 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

During the presentation of their Q2 financial results, Bert Nordberg showed his enthusiasm about the success of the Android platform in SonyEricsson’s portfolio. The company is less satisfied with Windows Mobile and Symbian. Read the rest of this entry »

EA Sells Ubisoft Shares

July 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Back in 2004, EA had bought 20% of Ubisoft as shareholder John de Mol needed to raise capital to start a new TV channel in Holland. Now, six years later, EA has decided to sell them on. Read the rest of this entry »

DeNa Signs Namco For Mobage-Town

July 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

With over 19 million subscribers, DeNa’s Mobage Town is one of the most important mobile aimed social gaming platforms. The company has now made a deal with Namco to bring Namco’s games to their community. Read the rest of this entry »

iChatr Removed From App Store

July 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple has removed iChatr from the App Store. iChatr is a ChatRoulette like app that seems to suffer from the same problem ChatRoulette has; too much naked men and we all know Steve hates nudity. Read the rest of this entry »

New Apple Delivery Dates

July 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Apple is about to ship the white iPhone 4 to the existing iPhone 4 markets and at the same time, the iPhone 4 and the iPad are about to hit the shelves in new territories. Read the rest of this entry »

Antennagate So Far…

July 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Last Friday, Apple held a press conference about the antenna issues surrounding their iPhone 4. As it turns out, Apple isn’t perfect as are phones in general… An update of what happened following the press conference. Read the rest of this entry »

Q2 Stats: Angry Birds Sell Best

July 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Together with iGameStats, MGB is providing quarterly insights into the App Store. In our first post, we announced Capcom as the best quality publisher. This time we look at the revenues and see Angry Birds as the winner. Read the rest of this entry »

Q2 Stats: Capcom Best Publisher

July 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

In cooperation with iGameStats, MGB is releasing the second quarterly quality report 2010 for the App Store. In this edition, Capcom has taken top spot amongst developers while Chaos Rings is the best game. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Announces Android Market Stats

July 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

While Androlib recently estimated that the 100.000th Android app would be uploaded later this month, Google is a bit more careful with their numbers. They say they currently have 70.000 apps in the market. Read the rest of this entry »

Samsung’s Wave & Galaxy S Hit the Million

July 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: Bada, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Though Samsung has been putting most of its PR budgets on the introduction of the Samsung Wave (with their new Bada OS), The company’s Galaxy S faster than expected. Read the rest of this entry »