Archive for October, 2009

iPhone Casual Games: Lessons for Success

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

Stuart Dredge is presenting a session at the Casual Games Forum about the factors that made certain games perform successfully on Apple’s App Store. The slides have just been published.

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Symbian Launches Ideas Site

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Symbian | Comments Off

The Symbian Foundation has launched another initiative today called Ideas.Symbian.Org. The website will allow developers to take a look at what people would like to see available.

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Zed Licenses Planet 51

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | Comments Off

Zed's sister company Ilion is coming with a new animated movie and so, Zed will bring us a load of content. Apart from numerous ringtones and wallpapers, the company will also be releasing three mobile games.

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DeviceAnywhere and Symbian Team Up

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | Comments Off

DeviceAnywhere, a company renting out real devices on different networks and different parts of the world via a browser client, has teamed up with the Symbian Foundation to promote their services.

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Mobile eBay a Big Hit

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

Ever since the launch of the iPhone eBay client, eBay seems to have been celebrating the success. To day, consumer have spent over $ 400 million via their iPhone app.

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Ovi Re-Downloads Official

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | Comments Off

Nokia's Ovi service is now officially supporting the re-download functionality we informed you about earlier. The functionality is however a bit further restricted then we thought at first.

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What’s up With 8lb?

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | Comments Off

Back in June, EA started 8lb. With the studio, the company would release 99 cents titles for the iPhone at a monthly rate. Yet we haven't seen anything except their first title Zombies & me.

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Chainfire Develops Windows Marketplace Switcher

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | Comments Off

Dutch developer Chainfire has developed a workaround for both consumers and developers to check Windows Marketplace in other countries. This allows developers to check the state of their apps abroad.

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Nintendo Announces DSi XL

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear, Platforms: DSiWare | 1 Comment »

We have barely gotten used to our Nintendo DSi and already the company announced a followup; The DSi XL (or LL for Asia). It will bring a bigger screen amongst other features.

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iPhone Jailbreak Viral hits YouTube

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | Comments Off

Verizon’s Droid commercial seems to have tickled some creative minds as the thing is now converted to introduce jailbreaking to consumers. It’s not broadcasted, but already attracted nearly 10K visitors in just two days.