Posts Tagged ‘Android’

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.

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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.

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Samsung: 10 Million Galaxy Tabs Out the Door By Q3 2011

September 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Samsung has good faith in their new Samsung Galaxy Tab. The company expects to have sold about ten million units before the third quarter of 2011 comes to an end.

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Former Google China Exec Branches Out on Android

September 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Innovation Works, an incubator formed by former Google China President Kai-Fu Lee, has invested in a company that is working on an alternative operating system based on Google’s Android.

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AuroraFeint Announces PlayTime

September 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Multiplayer Gaming | No Comments »

In the light of FaceTime, OpenFeint has introduced their new PlayTime technology last week. With PlayTime, it is possible to fight real time and turn based multiplayer battles between iPhone and Android.

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Android Piracy Heatmap

August 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Android developer Keyes Labs has recently released an app called Screebl Pro. As most expect with Android Market apps, the app has been pirated a lot. In fact, there has been so much piracy, this developer decided to create a heatmap.

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Gameloft Enter Android, Their Way

August 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Gameloft het setup their own dedicated Android shop on their website that allows gamers to freely download trial versions of their games and pay for them when they want more.

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Google Responds to Android Licensing Server Hack

August 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Yesterday evening, the news reached us that Android Market’s new licensing service turned out to be easy to hack. Today, Google responds to the publicized hack.

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Google Runs Out of Nexus One’s

August 24th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Recently, Google chose to stop supplying US consumers with Nexus One devices and keep their last batches for the Android development community (which already received many of them for free).

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OpenFeint Adds Send to Friend Functionality

August 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Openfeint has added new functionality that allows mobile gamers to invite their friends via e-mail and SMS in a similar way Scoreloop has been doing it right from the start.

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