Archive for April, 2010

Adobe Strikes Back

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

Over at WSJ, the guys started a liveblog detailing out the response of Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen who is not at all happy with the claims made from Steve Jobs. Check the liveblog here. We will update this post with a video soon.

Jobs Burns Flash Down to the Ground

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

In an open letter, Steve Jobs explains what the relationship with Adobe was and will be for the future and that future, will stay ‘flashless’ as far as Apple is concerned.

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Layar Starts Monetizing

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Layar | Comments Off

As some of you might remember from our Android Experience coverage, the folks at Layar where in search of a business model in order to turn the company cashflow positive. This might happen with a new content store.

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Connect2Media Rebrands Rayfusion

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | Comments Off

Though Connect2Media bought Rayfusion back in 2008, the company has started to rebrand the unit only now. The unit will now operate under the name of Connect2Media Middle East.

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Apple Design Awards Coming

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards, Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

Apple will soon be hosting the Apple Design Awards 2010. With the award, the company will be spotlighting apps that stand out from the crowd. The best is, you don’t even need to sign up to get listed!

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Jon Stewart and his Appholes

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox, Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

The guys over at Moconews found some brilliant footage from the Daily Show. In about 8 minutes, Jon Stewart totally bashes Apple for the Gizmodo drama while still admitting that he loves their products.

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Financials: Gameloft Q1 2010

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | Comments Off

Gameloft has posted their quarterly financials for the first quarter of 2010. Revenues went up 7% and even though Gameloft has put a lot of efforts in increasing their revenues from Apple, iPhone OS brought in only 21% of the revenues.

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HP Acquires Palm for $1.2 Billion – UPDATED

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: WebOS | Comments Off

Big news for Palm today as the device vendor has been acquired by HP. To many, this move came as a surprise as Lenovo seemed to be the last company in the race for the acquisition.

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Namco Boosts Unity SDK Userbase

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

During the GDC, Namco announced their own social gaming platform as an answer to the popularity of Scoreloop and OpenFeint. The benefit of theirs would be the multiplatform strategy.

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Doodle Jump Passes 4 Million Downloads

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

The success story of Doodle Jump keeps continuing as LimaSky announced that Doodle Jump has passed the 4 million downloads milestone on Apple’s App Store since its launch in March 2009.