MWC: Astraware Big Winner Samung/Handmark Fund

February 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards, Platforms: Bada | 5 Comments »

Last night, Samsung and Handmark announced the games that will receive funding for their presence on Samsung’s Baba fund. The biggest winner was Astraware, a studio that split from Handmark only recently.

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UsTwo Launches App for Developers

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

UsTwo has developed a new app named PositionApp. With this app, developers (or anyone else) can research placement of any app in the app store. You can even browse individual markets.

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Cobra Mobile Launches AppULike

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Yet another app/game discovery portal has been launched this week. This time, UK developer Cobra Mobile has taken a dive into the competitive app discovery market with their AppULite site.

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O’Reilly Identifies Most Efficient iPhone Dev’s

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

O’Reilly has compiled a few lists that identify the most effective developers on the App Store. The company shrunk it’s selection to only those who had 10 or more releases in the past 12 months.

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TAG Games Licenses Wipeout from Endemol

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Though Endemol is known for their country-by-country licensing deals, TAG Games has clearly struck gold somewhere as the company is launching Total Wipeout on a large variety of markets.

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iPhone OS 3.0 Turns Free

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Good news for the iPhone development community. Apple has decided to let iPod Touch owners freely upgrade their devices to firmware 3.0. With this move, the company hopes to improve app availability.

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MWC: 300.000 360 Devices in the Market

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Vodafone has been pushing their 360 devices for only a few months and already the operator has sold over 300.000 handsets. Vodafone has 7.000 apps and games for those devices.

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MWC: Windows Phone 7 Wrap-up

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

For all who that think a Liveblog is a horrible thing to read through, we summarized the keynote about Windows Phone 7 Series in a more logical order in this post (including video’s and other PR materials).

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Windows Phone 7 Series Liveblog

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Steve Ballmer just announced Windows Phone 7 and switched the mike to one of the key persons behind the development of this new series of Windows Mobile phones.