Airplay received $ 14 M funding

October 12th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Airplay, a US based company focused at mobile games and video (which is the companies’ main drive) secured $ 14 million in its latest funding round. Investors for this round of funding where Motorola, Qualcomm, JK & B Capital, Oneset Ventures and Redpoint.

The funding also brings a new director to the board of Airplay. Ali Shedman will fulfill this role on behalf of JK & B Capital.

"The funding now provides us with the financial and strategic muscle required to execute on this massive new market opportunity," said Morgan Guenther, chairman and CEO of AirPlay.

"AirPlay has a completely unique and transformative offering that stands to change the way we experience traditional television," said Ali Shadman of JK and B Capital. "We believe the possibilities are endless for growing their service across many different types of content programming and live events."

Main differences in Flash Lite Versions

October 12th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

As you all know, we’re posting a lot of news around Flash and have Adrian’s Flash Lite diaries in which we will release the second part tomorrow. Yesterday, Alessandro Pace posted an article on his Forum Nokia Blog about the main differences between the current Flash Lite versions available for mobile. A must read for everyone entering Flash Lite development.

Vodafone Live! Launched in Bulgaria

October 12th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Bulgarian operator Mobitel has launched the Vodafone Live! service for it’s 3G subscriber base. With this launch, Mobitel is following a number of operators which are launching the Live! services on their decks under the Vodafone name whilst remaining to operate themselves under their own name. All this comes at a time of global reorganization at Vodafone all over the world.

Vodafone in the game

October 11th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Connected Gaming | No Comments »

Vodafone is apparently bridging the communication boundaries between the real world and the popular online game Second Life. Rumors say Vodafone will open it’s own island and create applications that allow communication between Second Life and persons in the real world trough an instant messaging service application.

Artificial Life hooks CBS

October 11th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

CBS Digital Media and Artificial Life announced their partnership to create and market mobile games based on the CBS brands. Artificial life will take care of on-deck sales whereas CBS will arrange the off-deck distribution and marketing.

"This license agreement with CBS Digital Media opens up a new and promising business opportunity and partnership with some of the best content brands out there. The licensed properties are very well known throughout many countries in the world so we expect high interest from our clients as well as from resellers and operators. We will develop some very innovative and cool new mobile games with features so far unseen in this field. The first product will be released already very soon," said Eberhard Schoeneburg, CEO of Artificial Life.

IMGA, The nominees

October 10th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

The IMGA judges have announced the list of 25 nominees for the 2007 IMGA Awards. And the nominees are

Carnival of the Mobilists #48

October 9th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

This week, Helen Keegan, the industry’s technokitten, has done an excellent job at compiling all the news spread on mobile blogs around the globe. Read it now!

Mr. Goodliving wins Mobile Choice Award

October 9th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Mr. Goodliving has been announced winner of the Best Mobile Game at the Mobile Choice Consumer Awards 2006. Their winning title was Turbo Camels

Mobliss sold for 85%

October 8th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

MoCoNews reports that the Index Multimedia Group, which has been acquiring a lot of mobile players in the last years like Mediaplazza and Cyoshi, has sold of 85% of it’s stake in Seattle based Mobliss. Mobless, who has recently been in the spotlights for their deal on Endemol’s Deal or no Deal, is now mostly property of Tokyo based GD.

Where are those Flash Lite guys

October 8th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | 4 Comments »

Getting yourself noted is important these days, specially when you are working on a rather new technology. Yesterday, a new PR tool has been brought to live (thanks Biskero) by Scott. His new service is there to let visitors know where in the world they can find the nearest Flash Lite developer.

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