Call for Speakers: Mobile Unconference Germany

October 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

Calling all Developers! As mentioned before, we are pretty busy planning the next mobile unconference, which will take place on November 15th in Dusseldorf (Germany). Read the rest of this entry »

App Store Breaches Through 300.000 Apps, How Many have Gone?

October 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

On September first, Steve Jobs announced the App Store passed a quarter million apps. Yesterday, the App Store broke through 300K apps. In other words, 50.000 new apps in about six weeks! Read the rest of this entry »

Angry Birds Bomb GetJar

October 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: AndroidOS | 2 Comments »

Angry Birds officially launched on Android today, and it had selected GetJar as the channel to star on. As the game was given away for free, it seemed to have killed the portal. Read the rest of this entry »

Inneractive Adds QT and WRT Support

October 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: QT, Platforms: WRT | No Comments »

Developers of QT and WRT based apps will now be able to integrate Inneractive’s SDK’s into their apps and games. It is the first time the company dedicates itself to WRT widgets. Read the rest of this entry »

Crystal SDK to Support Freemium Models

October 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Through their most recent update, the Crystal SDK from Chillingo now support monetization tools for developers making use of freemium models on the App Store. Read the rest of this entry »

AppHallofFame.com Launches

October 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The guys behind 148apps.com have launched a new discovery site called App Hall of Fame. On the site, the editorial team will upload a monthly list of the 12 best apps available. Read the rest of this entry »

Distimo Adds BlackBerry and Ovi Support

October 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: J2me, Platforms: MeeGo, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Distimo has updated its Distimo Monitor to support both BlackBerry World and Nokia’s Ovi Store. Through the Mobile Monitor, developers can check the performance of their apps as well as that of competitors. Read the rest of this entry »

Sony Opens Google TV Developer Site

October 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Developers that are interested in developing apps and games for Sony’s newly announced Google TV TV’s can now register themselves with the Japanese giant for first access to the system. Read the rest of this entry »

Inovisi Infracom Invests $30 Million in Ozura

October 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mobile social gaming platforms are hot these days. Only a day after the acquisition of ngmoco was announced, Inovisi Infracom announces their investment in Ozura World Ltd. Read the rest of this entry »

DeNa Acquires ngmoco, its True

October 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

We already wrote about the rumor earlier this week, but it turns out DeNa indeed bought ngmoco. Ngmoco will help DeNa get grip on the western mobile gaming market. Read the rest of this entry »