PikPok Supports Christchurch Victims

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

While the rest of the World is still raising money to safe Pakistanis from the water, developer PikPok is one of the first to actually start raising money for the earthquake victims in Christchurch, New Zealand. Read the rest of this entry »

Vodafone to Dump SRF Shares

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Vodafone has announced that it is interested in dumping its 44% ownership in French operator SFR. Vodafone’s shares have an estimated value of about € 8.4 billion Read the rest of this entry »

IBC: WebTube, Android as IPTV Box

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

The Korean company Kaonmedia was present on the IBC event in Amsterdam to show off their huge collection on Settop and IPTV boxes. One of them really caught our attention as it was both very small and running on Android 1.5. Read the rest of this entry »

Cydia Acquires Rock.App

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

SaurikIT LLC, the company behind the infamous Cydia App Store for Jailbroken iOS devices has acquired Rock Your Phone Inc, operator of the Rock.App store that also targets jailbroken iOS devices. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple Starts Clearing Unused Names

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In the App Store, every app has to have a unique title. As a result, many developers have registered titles that sounds good, but haven’t used them for any app yet. Apple has started to take action to free those titles up. Read the rest of this entry »

Adobe Restarts Flash for iOS Development

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

With Apple changing their policy in regards to third party app development tools, Adobe has announced the company is delighted to restart development of Flash for the iOS platform. Read the rest of this entry »

Gartner: Android to be Leading in Four Years

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to a study from Gartner, Android keeps picking up speed and with the current growth, it is likely to outnumber Apple’s iOS based devices in North America by the end of the current year. Read the rest of this entry »

Nielsen: 27 Apps on Every US Smartphone

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Nielsen has revealed that the average US smartphone has 27 apps installed. This average is mainly pushed up by Android and iOS where consumers have easy access to free apps and games. Read the rest of this entry »

Scoreloop And PayPal Hook Up

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

On April 23rd, PayPal already announced that it wanted to get into in-app billing for Android and iPhone. Now, the company hooked up with Scoreloop for easy access to mobile game developers. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple Relaxes Rules of Development

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Probably to avoid any Legal problems, Apple has started to relax their review guidelines. As a result, developers are now allowed to use any tool for developing iOS apps (inc. Flash CS 5) as long as the games don’t download code. Read the rest of this entry »

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