Bango takes in-app billing cross-platform

March 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Bango has released a new billing service that will allow developers to generate revenues from in-game sales on all smartphone platforms including Apple’s iPhone OS.

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Buongiorno Steps into Gambling

March 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gambling | No Comments »

Buongiorno has secured a gambling license from the Italian government. With it, the company plans to release a number of popular casino themed games like Poker and Bingo.

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MIX10: No Real Time Multiplayer for WP7

March 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA | No Comments »

Microsoft will not provide real time multiplayer technology for Windows Phone 7 Series devices. The mobile network might not be able to deliver the kind of experience that is expected on XBLA.

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AppStoreHQ Expands Into Android

March 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | 1 Comment »

App discovery service AppStoreHQ has announced that it will increase its footprint in the App Discovery market by adding Android Market to their services.

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Ovi Generates 1.5 Million Downloads/day

March 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Nokia’s Ovi Store is growing in popularity. While we announced the store reaching an average of 1 million downloads a day only months ago, Ovi is now at an 1.5 million average.

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The Marketing of App Store Economics

March 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Strange title? Perhaps. The story behind it is even more surprising. iPhone developers Tommy Refenes and Adam Saltsman made a horrible game and tried to market it by increasing the price instead of lowering it.

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40% BlackBerry Users Consider Switch to iPhone

March 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

According to a survey from Crows Science, nearly 40% of the current BlackBerry owners is considering a switch to iPhone when their subscription allows them to.

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Android Market Contains 30.000 Apps

March 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

In the past three months, Google has seen Android Market grow from 20.000 apps to 30.000. This means the channels has grown with about 3.333 app or 11% per month.

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Motorola Droid Overtakes iPhone Sales

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

Though the iPhone peeked much higher when it went on sale, it seems the Motorola Droid has overtaken the total sales on day 74 according to statistics from Flurry. The Nexus One doesn’t even come close.