Ngmoco to Follow OpenFeint and Scoreloop Onto Android

September 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Ngmoco has always been one of the most iOS focused publishers out on the market. Now their social gaming competitors are embracing Android for some time, Ngmoco is likely to follow them. Read the rest of this entry »

RIM: 50 Million BlackBerry Consumers and Counting…

September 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

In the second quarter of 2010, RIM has sold 12.1 million BlackBerry devices (that is up 56% year-on-year). The company calculated it has 50 million registered BlackBerry users. Read the rest of this entry »

EA Wishes for Android App Store

September 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

During his keynote at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference, EA’s CFO Eric Brown told the public that Android could be a very interesting platform if it only had an App Store. Read the rest of this entry »

Developers Can Block Apple’s Airplay Service

September 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

As Apple introduced Airplay, the streaming media service, some developers are stressed out as the service is not covered in the license agreement they have with the composer. There’s a workaround for that. Read the rest of this entry »

Nielsen: The State of Mobile Apps

September 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Nielsen has generated a new report called The State of Mobile Apps, specially for the AppNation event. Amongst other details, it shows iPhone owners are still consuming the biggest amount of apps. Read the rest of this entry »

The Facebook Phone Rumor Summery

September 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

Over the past few days, rumors show that Facebook would be working on its own mobile operating system and hardware. How much of that is true? Read on… Read the rest of this entry »

iPad Goes on Sale in South America and China

September 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Just before the weekend, Apple launched the iPad in China and South America. In Beijing, one consumer stood in line for 60 hours to make sure he would buy the first unit. Read the rest of this entry »

No Nudity on Windows Marketplace

September 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile, Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Just like Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer apparently dislikes naked women. As so, the new guidelines on Windows Marketplace disallow development of apps with any nudity in them. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft Finalizes Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools

September 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Microsoft has finalized the Windows Phone 7 SDK. The first phones supporting Windows Phone 7 will be out on the market in about a month from now so it is about time they did. Read the rest of this entry »

iSwifter, the OnLive for Flash Gaming on iOS

September 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

iSwifter, a new service from incubator YouWeb, is streaming Flash games onto iOS platforms. Though no longer needed, they still feel to address the concerns Steve Jobs raised about Flash on iOS. Read the rest of this entry »