Kyocera Acquires Sanyo’s Handset Division

January 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following the acquisition of Siemens’ hanset division by BenQ, Kyocera now announced to have purchased Sanyo’s.

GSMA Gaming Nominees

January 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

The GSM Association has announced the list of nominees for the Annual Global Mobile Content Awards in Barcalona next month.

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David Gosen Leaves I-Play

January 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | 1 Comment »

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President of I-Play, David Gosen, has announced to be leaving the
company after several years of service due to restructuring by Oberon
Media.

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MoConDi Turns to Mobile Viral Marketing of Mobile Games

January 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | 1 Comment »

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MoConDi finally announced the release (and success) of their MeYou platform which they have been working on for over two years.

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Gamevil Into In-game Advertising

January 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Gamevil has introduced in-game advertising in it’s Korean mobile games catalogue.

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EA Mobile Releases Asterix

January 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

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EA Mobile has released Asterix: The Official Mobile Game of the Movie.
It’s not the first time Asterix goes mobile as in the past, In-Fusio
released several Asterix mobile games.

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Vivendi Announces Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust

January 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Announcements | No Comments »

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Vivendi Games Mobile announced to be working on Leisure Suit Larry Box
Office Bust, a new episode in the popular Larry Laffer range.

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Management SCI Steps Down

January 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

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We reported earlier about the financial problems over at SCI after
acquisition talks ended for the publisher of titles like Tomb Raider.

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Google Starts Android Developer Contest

January 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

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Google’s success of the android platform will for a big part be hanging
on the support for great applications. To stimulate development of
these, the search giant initiated a competition.