Apple Bans LBS Advertising

February 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple has put a blog post online in which it asks developers not to use LBS data purely for advertising. Instead, Apple is pushing developers to do something useful with it.

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Glu Tests Augmented Reality Gaming

February 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Location Based Gaming, Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

With their latest release, Glu is putting Augmented Reality to the test. In their adventure game ‘1000: Find ‘Em All’, players are challenged to find virtual objects in a real world game.

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Minis Go on Discount

February 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

Sony is discounting the PSP/PS3 Minis the coming two weeks. Through the discount, the company hopes to attract more consumers to the offering. The offer will run from today till February 18th.

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iTunes Preview Also for Apps

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

From now on, consumers can check iPhone apps from the comfort of their browsers. Apple has upgraded their iTunes Preview system to support this type of content viewing.

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Today, Symbian Goes Open Source (For Real)

February 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Months ago, Nokia formed the Symbian Foundation to house the Symbian OS and make it an Open Source OS. Today, four months earlier than expected, the sourcecode has been put online.

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Appolicious Acquires AppVee

February 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

As App Discovery turns into a healthy business, the first major acquisition is happening. Appolicious Acquired competitor AppVee. With the acquisition, Appolicious expands further into Android as well.

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Bertil Krumnack Leaves GlobalFun for Twistbox

February 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | 3 Comments »

For years, Bertil was one of the faces behind GlobalFun, a company partly owned by Bertil himself. Just over a month ago, Bertil announced to be leaving GlobalFun and now he pops-up at competitor Twistbox.

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Juniper: One Million Ovi Maps Downloads a Somewhat Modest Achievement

February 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Nokia has released free navigation for their top smartphones with the release of Nokia Ovi Maps just over a week ago. Yesterday, Nokia announced to have generated one million downloads and Juniper’s Dr Windsor Holden took a closer look at the business.

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HandyGames Signs Embedded Deal with SonyEricsson

February 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

HandyGames has announced a new deal in which the company is pre-installing two games on the brand new SonyEricsson Yari device. Both games include Gesturetek recognition controls.