Commercial Android Apps Available in Two Weeks

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

In an e-mail to to Android Market developers, Google's Eric Chu has confirmed that the company is on track with the support for commercial mobile games and applications. The launch however, will not be global.

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Namco Hits Facebook with More Brain Exercise

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

It seems that Namco has also seen the light of the Facebook community. Folowing companies like Digital Chocolate and Gameloft, it has also released a Facebook game to promote their mobile brain training game.

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Fishlabs Ditches Operator Channels

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | 8 Comments »

Fishlabs has made a lot of noise for the last couple of months. In their latest blog post, the company says goodbye to many sales channels including those of the operators.

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Gecko, The Windows Mobile App Store Alternative?

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Over at the XDA Developer forums, some members have cooked up an alternative for the Apple App Store. With Gecko, it's much easier for Windows Mobile owners to discover and install new content.

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Symbian UIQ Files for Bankruptcy

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

We already reported that all companies that once used Symbian's UIQ platform, have abandoned the Symbian UIQ company. Since Nokia announced that it will integrate UIQ's best parts into S60, it was obvious that the company behind UIQ was set to die.

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Palm Gets $ 100m Injection

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

It seems Palm has been saved for now by Elevation Partners. The investors have put $ 100 million into the hardware company (not to be mistaken from the company that produces Palm OS).

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Garmin Jumps Into Android

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It seems like Google has hit the right spot by making the Android platform open source. Now, even Garmin is entering the smartphone market as they expect to release their first Android handset along Q2 2009.

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Geocade Comes with Location Based Leaderboards

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

A company called Geocade has reinvented the way leaderboards are used by mobile game players around the world. With their new functionality, it's possible for players to start competing at a local level.

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Glu Takes Financial Measures for 2009

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

2008 didn't even end, and Glu already announced some financial changes in order to stabilize their position in the market. With their latest measures the company seems to secure their business for 2009, but there is still a lot of work ahead…

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ThumbThug Explains Spam

December 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 1 Comment »

We have to admit it. Not even a full day passed since our ban, and one of the people behind it contacted us to explain the nasty situation which a little experiment got them in…