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Microsoft to Stimulate App Sharing

May 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Microsoft It seems the Redmond giant has another trick up its sleeve for the Windows Marketplace. Its what the company calls app sharing that should generate a viral sales effect.

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Sick IP; 7Seas Releases Swine Flu

May 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Blank For its latest releases, 7seas seems to lay their focus on controversial titles. Following Obama vs. McCain, the developer has now releases a game about the swine flu.

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Forrester: “The Smartphone” is Dead

May 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Forrester Forrester Research has announced that the term Smartphone is no longer valid. All current phones are smart according to the company, though some phones seem smarter than others.

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N-Gage to ease Download Limitations?

May 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

N-gage One of the issues raised by consumers a long time ago was that they where not able to take their mobile games to their new N-Gage devices. N-Gage fixed this by introducing a license transfer service, but rumors say Nokia will even go beyond that.

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O2 Pushes Litmus Toward Consumers

May 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 2 Comments »

O2 O2 UK (Telefonica) has started a new PR initiative to push their App Store called Litmus toward consumers. The company is sending out thousands of e-mails.

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One Net Entertainment Raises $ 20 Million

May 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Blank China Techfaith Wireless Communication Technology Limited has announced that it has raised $ 20 million for their One Net Entertainment mobile gaming company.

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Qualcomm Launches App Store

May 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Qualcomm Qualcom joins the App Store rally by releasing one as well. Their version of the App Store is called Plaza Retail and is sold as an add-on toi their Plaza Mobile Internet widget platform.

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MobPartner Starts Gameloft Affiliate Program

May 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Gameloft On the Gameloft forums, the MobPartner company announced that they have started an affiliate program for webmasters to sell mobile games through their own mobile portals (they call them wapmasters).

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Twistbox Resumes Payments, Developers Optimistic

May 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Twistbox A couple of weeks back we put online our discussion with Twistbox about the rumors of payment problems. Following some communication with them, we noticed that they sent out a payment plan toward their suppliers.

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App Store a Real Moneymaker for Apple

May 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Lightspeed-venture-partners Though the App Store was introduced as a development community like service, it turns out to be a real cash cow for. According to Lightspeed Venture Partners it brought in many millions.

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