NTT DoCoMo to Acquire Net-M

September 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

NTT DoCoMo has announced that it is making a voluntary public tender offer to acquire the shares of Net Mobile AG, a mobile content distributor located in D

Matt Spall Sells Studio Again

September 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Matt Spall used to be the owner of the famous Morpheme studios. After a while he rebranded it to Gimm5Games to focus on casual and online. Not too long after, he sold that studio for the first time to Eidos.

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Rumours: UBI & Gameloft, the Love is Gone!?

September 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing, Companies & M&A, Platforms: iOS | 2 Comments »

The signs where hanging in the air and many where saying it at both the GC and GamesCom. With the announcement of UBI doing Assasins Creed on the iPhone we can openly say the love between the both is gone.

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Connect2Media Responds to Apple Announcements

September 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

This morning we received an e-mail from Connect2Media's marketing manager Stephen Hey. Inhis e-mail, he responded to the announcements from Apple last night.

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Apple Lowers iPod Touch Upgrade Pricing

September 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Good news for all those consumers that felt like 10,- for a firmware upgrade was too much. Last night, the pricing for the 3.1.1 upgrade was lowered by the company.

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Android Market Reaches 10K Apps

September 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

A small success for Google this week. Their Android Market has crossed the 10.000 apps bar. Sure it's not as much as the iPhone does, but it still means less competition as well.

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iPod Touch 3rd Generation

September 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Another update we missed during the event coverage yesterday was the introduction of the third generation iPod Touch. The second gen was already faster then the iPhone 3G but it seems this time it's the other way around.

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iTunes Updates Charts

September 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Yesterday, Apple released not only the new iPhone firmware, but also the new iTunes 9. We downloaded it right away and found out that there is a sweet surprise for iPhone publishers in it.

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iPod (Touch) Demographics

September 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple's Phil Schiller came on stage to talk about the good old iPod. To date, 220 million of them where sold and about 9% of those (20 Million) are iPost Touch's.

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Apple on iPhone Updates and Stats

September 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Tonight, Steve Jobs took the stage at the Apple event and outlined the company's plans to update the current iPhone firmware as well as some details about the App Store.