Archive for March, 2011

THQ and the Star Wars Mystery

March 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | Comments Off

Yesterday, THQ took down their Star Wars branded games from the App Store. The rumours said the license, which has been owned by the company for many years already, has expired.

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Windows Phone 7, One Year Later

March 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | Comments Off

Microsoft’s Brandon Watson posted some interesting numbers on Windows Phone 7, that turned one year old today. The SDK has been downloaded 1.5 million times and 36.000 developers subscribed to AppHub.

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PSX4Droid Pulled From Android Market

March 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | Comments Off

PSX4Droid has been one of the more popular PSX emulators on the Android market, but the popular app has now been booted off Google’s Android Market.

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RIM Acquires TinyHippos

March 30th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | Comments Off

Those that visited our Mobile Unconference event last September in Düsseldorf probably met the great guys from TinyHippos. Great news for them, they have been bought by Research in Motion.

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Google Launches In-App Purchases

March 30th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | Comments Off

Last night, Google launched in-app purchases for the Android Market. At the launch of the system, google already managed to get some of the bigger publishers on board.

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HTC’s 3D Device to hit Europe in 2011

March 29th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Phones & Devices, Platforms: AndroidOS | Comments Off

During the CTIA, HTC presented their HTC EVO 3D device. An android phone with an autostereoscopic 3D screen similar to that of LG’s Optimus 3D and Nintendo’s 3DS.

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IDC: Windows Phone 7 Second Largest Platform by 2015

March 29th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | Comments Off

According to new research from IDC, Windows Phone 7 seems to have potential to become the second largest mobile operating system by 2015. Android will have the lead in that year.

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Sony Ericsson Allows Custom Android Roms on Xperia

March 29th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | Comments Off

Sony Ericsson made an interesting move today as the company announced it will allow consumers to run custom roms on their Xperia (Android) hardware. The company will even be providing the tools.

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Apple to Delay the iPhone 5

March 29th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

While Apple only just announced the Wordwide Developers Conference 2011 (WWDC), Apple watchers seem convinced that Apple is not planning to show any new iPhones and iPods at the event.

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RIM Confirms Android Support on Playbook

March 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry | 1 Comment »

RIM has confirmed that the new BlackBerry Playbook will be able to run Android apps. RIM will deliver two ‘app players’ with the playbook that should make sure the apps run on the tablet.

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