Rockstar Takes on TAG Games

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Rockstar has released Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars on the iPhone. With this release, TAG Games’ Carjack Streets is getting some tough competition on the platform where it was released in Q2 2009.

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Dutch Consumer Authority Sues Vodafone and T-Mobile

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Dutch consumer authority ‘Consumentenbond’ has prepared a lawsuit against Vodafone and T-Mobile over the (ab)use of Premium SMS as a billing system. Operators don’t take enough responsibility according to the organization.

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Developer Enables Flash in Safari

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Even though Apple is still blocking iPhone owners from viewing Flash animations in their Safari browsers, developer Tobias Schneider has developed a workaround that fixes this issue.

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Windows Mobile 7 Not Backward Compatible

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Russian developer/journalist Eldar Murtazin has managed to get hold of a Phone containing an early Windows Mobile 7 build. According to his first tests, the device is not able to run 6.x software.

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Flurry: Nexus One Sales Below Expectations

January 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Last week we have witnessed the launch of Google’s superphone, the Nexus One. The launches was plagued by problems with 3G connectivity and consumers not knowing where to go with them.

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Telefonica to Upgrade Litmus

January 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 2 Comments »

Litmus has been far from successful since the App Store launched on the O2 UK network in 2008. Still Telefonica seems to believe in the platform and so it will be upgraded to fit the rest of the Telefonica network.

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Smaato: Symbian is still Dominating – UPDATED

January 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Mobile, Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to research from Smaato, Symbian is still the leading platform in their advertising network (Based on CTR). Their conclusion is in line with a report from Canalys over the third quarter of 2009.

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Today’s Gamers Report UK

January 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

The coming time, Today’s Gamers will be releasing a lot of interesting information about the international (mobile gamer). Today, we cover stats from the United Kingdom.

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Apshopper Shares Release Rate Details

January 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Arnold Kim from AppShopper.com has put a graph on his Twitter outlining the number of daily releases between November 15th and January 14th. The 18th of December saw 4.491releases.

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Mplayit: iPhone Losing Its Edge In Apps, Cross Platform Titles Prevail

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

According to new research from Mplayit, the quality of the Android and BlackBerry App offering is catching up with that of Apple’s much praised iPhone. The quantity however, is still far from there.