MWC: Ericsson’s eStore Launches

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

It has been hanging in the air for over a year already, Ericsson’s eStore. It has been unveiled today at the Mobile World Congress. At the launch, the store already holds 30.000 apps and games.

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Microsoft’s Project Pink Revealed by FCC

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

FCC documents revealed the first official Project Pink phone from Microsoft. It turns out that Sharp is actually building the phones and not HTC. The first Project Pink phone will be known as the Turtle or Sharp PB10ZU.

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MWC: More Flash 10.1 Details Emerge

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

As most of you know, Flash Player 10.1 is set to replace Flash Lite on mobile phones to ease Flash development. At the MWC, Adobe announced more details about some of the 10.1 features.

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MWC: Adobe Air Goes Mobile

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

With Flash and Flash Lite nearly being mainstream platforms, Adobe has now announced to start mobilizing their Adobe Air platform. With this announcement even more developers will be going mobile.

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I-play Discontinues J2me/Brew Development and Distribution

February 11th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Brew, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Rumors have been floating around MGB for weeks, but starting yesterday, I-play started to inform their developers about their intentions to end the support for Java and Brew based mobile games.

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MGB @pixalonstudios

February 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in About Us | No Comments »

Yesterday, MGB left to Prague to meet up with the team at Pixalon Studios. As a result, there will be less updates the coming days. We will recoup on smaller news stories over the coming weekend.

Dalvik Turbo to Speed Up Android

February 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Myriad has announced a replacement virtual machine for Android that increased application speed by three times. Next to speeding up, the company also claims that it will save your battery.

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iDrift Racingwheel for iPad

February 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Designer Michael Greenberg has released a concept for an iPad steering wheel. Though the concept is extremely simple, we’d love to test it on Asphalt or any other racing game.

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Sidebar Launches BlackBerry Discovery App

February 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

US firm SideBar has launched a content discovery application for the BlackBerry platform. With the app, consumers will receive suggestions of what else they might want to purchase.

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THQ Aims for Digital Distribution

February 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: PSP Minis, Platforms: XNA | No Comments »

Though THQ used to own a lot of shelfspace all over the world, this might change soon as the company has announced to focus themselves more and more on digital distribution.