Archive for January, 2009

Apple Receives Multi-Touch Patent

January 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The internet seems to have exploded today as nearly every tech news website is reporting on Apple's latest patent. The company has managed to patent it's excellent mult-touch technology.

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Flurry Signs 300 Developers for it’s Free Analytics Service

January 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Flurry started the New Year with over 300 developers using its free service within the first 60 days of going Beta. Flurry is now making available its free service to all iPhone, Android, Blackberry and J2me.

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AdMob goes Deeper into Android

January 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Mobile game developers can now also choose to sell AndroidOS based mobile games AND earn money with mobile advertising. Admob has set up a totally new unit to make this possible.

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Fennec to Launch on Windows Mobile

January 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

It seems that FireFox is finally launching it's mobile browser on Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform. With this launch, all three major browsers will be available on the platform. What will this mean for mobile games?

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Windows Skymarket Launching at MWC

January 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

According to several sources on the web, Microsoft will announce it's App Store rival “Skymarket” on the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcalona. This means that the launch is about a month away.

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Casino Games Spin onto Android with Spin3

January 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gambling | No Comments »

Following many other platforms, Spin3 is now polishing up it's web based mobile gambling games portfolio for launch on devices which are based on Google's AndroidOS.

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Android Marketplace Reaches 800 Apps & Mobile Games

January 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Though Apple's App Store is still leading in the number of available mobile games and applications, Google announced that Android's Marketplace is also growing steady. The channel currently holds 800 mobile applications and games.

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Spil Aims Flash Lite Mobile Games Domination

January 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

Marc van der Chijs, the Spil Games Asia CEO, expects that Spil Games will be leading the mobile games market in about three years. The company expects that the market will move to Flash Lite.

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N-Gage Stats 2008

January 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Nokia's N-Gage Blog has revealed some interesting statistics in regards to the best selling and highest ranking mobile games offered by their service. Both rankings are lead by Nokia itself.

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Rockpool Closes Down

January 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Next to offloading staff over 2008, due to restructuring, the company has now also chosen to shutdown Rockpool Games. A mobile games studio which was acquired about three years ago.