Layar Receives €10 Million Funding

November 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Intel Capital has invested €10 million in Dutch developer Layar. The investment is meant to increase the number of products and services based on augmented reality. Read the rest of this entry »

Panasonic to Re-Enter Cellphone Market

November 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Though Panasonic made a lot of budget cellphones in the nineties, the company had never really made the transition to smartphones. It even pulled out of the market a few years back. Read the rest of this entry »

2 Million Downloads for Guns’n’Glory

November 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Guns’n’Glory seems to be one of the bigger hits of German developer HandyGames. On the App Store, Ovi and Android Market, the game managed to attract over 2 million downloads since it was launched. Read the rest of this entry »

Qualcomm Launches AR Development Contest

November 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

The AR App and Games market is still developing and so far, only a few bright ideas have managed to become reality over the past couple of years. With a new competition, Qualcomm hopes to stimulate AR development. Read the rest of this entry »

(Hardly) No More Ads in MGB’s RSS

November 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in About Us | No Comments »

Based on user feedback, we have removed the adverts from our RSS feed. Since this was a bit hard to configure, we have a workaround in place that will remove ads in 99% of the cases.

High Demand Causes Delays for HP’s Slate 500

November 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

HP has delayed the delivery of the Slate 500 device with six weeks due to high demand. The company expected to sell 5.000 units of their first real tablet computer, yet they received 9.000 pre-orders. Read the rest of this entry »

iAd Coming to Europe (and Japan)

November 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple has announced it will finally bring the iAd platform to Europe, only six months after (a rather slow) release in the United States. iAd will also be taken to Japan through Dentsu. Read the rest of this entry »

AMD Joins MeeGo

November 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo | No Comments »

It seems MeeGo is getting support from an unexpected side. Intel’s competitor AMD has announced it will help develop the mobile operating system, probably to help selling its new line of APU’s. Read the rest of this entry »

MU: The Day After

November 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

Yesterday, we helped organize the second Mobile Unconference, this time in Düsseldorf. With about 120 ‘mobilists’ visiting the event, we can safely say it was the biggest one so far. Read the rest of this entry »

MU: Publishing in the Smartphone Era

November 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

According to research from Mintel, only 12% of the consumers in the UK own a smartphone. One of the reasons is that 30% of British consumers are only interested in the cheapest deal and it shows the smartphone market is still a minor one. Read the rest of this entry »