Archive for April, 2011

Zynga Acquires Wonderland Software

April 28th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | Comments Off

Zynga has snapped up yet another mobile games studio. This time, the giant has swallowed Wonderland Software in it’s hunger for mobile projects.

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Top Trumps Heading to iOS

April 26th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | Comments Off

Following releases on Android, Blackberry and Java, Connect2Media will now be taking Top Trumps onto iOS devices with the help of Mobile Pie. There will be three editions on all platforms.

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Barnes & Noble Launches Nook App Store

April 26th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | Comments Off

Barnes & Noble are rolling out Android 2.2 to Nook Color owners. As a benefit to the upgrade, Barnes & Noble also added their own app store to the update.

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Sony Set to Launch Playstation Tablets

April 26th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Phones & Devices, Platforms: AndroidOS | Comments Off

Sony has announced their first two Android 3.0 tablets. Both of them will support Playstation Suite and Qriocity. Nothing strange so far apart for the fact that the S2 has a very interesting formfactor.

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Windows Phone Mango, Windows Phone 7.5?

April 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | Comments Off

It seems like Windows Phone 7 is about to receive a name change as Microsoft releases the Mango update this fall. The giant called the new Mango update Windows Phone 7.5 on one of it’s websites.

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First iPhone 4S Prototypes Leak

April 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Phones & Devices | Comments Off

Boy Genius Report got their hands on a strange kind of iPhone 4. It was a iPhone 4S prototype that was handed out to developers in the US, under NDA.

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Nokia to Launch WP7 Store

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | Comments Off

Microsoft and Nokia have signed their cooperation agreement earlier than both expected and that brought some interesting news to the table. Nokia is the first vendor that will have their own WP7 store.

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First Union Games hit Xperia Play

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | Comments Off

Union, the distribution arm of unity, has announced the release of five games on the Xperia Play. All five games are optimized for the device using the special Xperia Play API from Unity.

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eBay Acquires Where

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | Comments Off

It seems the right time for multi-million acquisition announcements today as eBay has bought a mobile developer called ‘where’ for a massive $135 million.