Archive for May, 2011

BlueStacks Delivers Android Apps to Windows Users

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

BlueStacks is a new tech startup that has developed virtualisation software to run Android OS in a Windows environment. The company managed to bring in $7.6 million in investments.

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Unity Celebrated 500K Developers

May 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

Unity has just announced that 500.000 developers have sigend up for their SDK. At the same time, their Unity Browser plugin reached 60.000.000 installs.

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App Store Hits 500.000 Apps – Infographic

May 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

While Android Market is expected to overtake the Apple App Store in numbers by next year or so, the App Store is still about a third bigger. Chillingo, 148Apps and Chomp made an impressive infographic.

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Microsoft Unveils Mango and Web Based Marketplace

May 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | Comments Off

Yesterday, Microsoft provided full details on the next update of Windows Phone 7. It is indeed called Mango and oh yeah, the name of the OS is just Windows Phone now…

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RBC: 250.000 PlayBooks Sold

May 19th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | Comments Off

By now we all know RIM will have to push hard to conquer a piece of the tablet pie, but their PlayBook is doing far from bad. RBC estimates about a quarter of a million sales for the tablet.

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Bye Bye Ovi

May 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | Comments Off

Nokia has announced it will end the Ovi brand. Instead, the company will be rebranding all services under Ovi to… Nokia. Indeed, Ovi Services have become Nokia Services which sounds logic.

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Sticky Wins the AppCircus in Rotterdam

May 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | Comments Off

Yesterday, MobileGamesBlog and friends organized the first Dutch AppCircus in Rotterdam. During the AppCircus, the jury was judging for the best app of Holland. The honors went to Sticky from Gamistry.

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MU: Best Practices in App Development

May 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | Comments Off

Tom Lous was asking in a group discussion what the way to go is. There’s native development on one side while there is a wide collection of tools on the other. Next to that, what if your one iOS developer is away on sickleave?

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MU: Are Apps the New Bubble

May 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | Comments Off

We stroke down in Rotterdam for the fourth edition of the Mobile Unconference. The schedule is stuffed, but the first session we joined is a group discussion with the topic “Are Apps the new Bubble”.

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