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Digitimes: Tablet Sales Take a Dive

February 21st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

It seems the rush for tablets is cooling down a little as tablet sales are expected to drop a massive 30% in the first quarter of 2012. Digitimes calculated the dip in sales based on the number of deliveries from vendors in Taiwan.

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Rim Mixes BB OS and QNX Into BBX

October 19th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

At BlackBerry DevCon, RIM announced their newest OS called BBX. A rather unexpected move as most of the world was still expecting QNX (running on the PlayBook) to be ported straight to RIM’s smartphones.

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Origin is EA’s Steam for PC and Mobile

June 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

EA has announced that it will be launching a new download store called Origin. With the launch of Origin, the EA webshop goes multi-platform as it supports PC and Mobile users.

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MU: Are Apps the New Bubble

May 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

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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Lunagames Hits 1 Million Daily Active users

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

With their XXL Casual Games series on Bada, Blackberry, Symbian and Android, Lunagames now reaches one million gamers on a daily basis, a new record for the Dutch developers.

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Verizon Warns Consumers About GPS Tracking

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Apple managed to become global news again as iOS keeps a record of where the device has been at what time. Though those records are stored locally, Verizon started applying stickers with information on such devices.

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MobileGamesBlog.com for Sale

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

I have spent 10 years in the mobile apps space and have enjoyed every day of it. Now however, I have chosen to go back to school and start a new career. Since MGB costs a couple of hours a day to run it properly, there’s no chance I can match that with the new direction I am taking. As so, I decided to start looking for a new owner for this blog.

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Bango Enters Canada

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Mobile payment specialist Bango has announced the company is entering the Canadian market with their payment platform. With that move, the company covers 200m North-American consumers.

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Rovio to Sync Angry Birds Scores

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Rovio has announced Angry Birds Sync. With the new cloud service, consumers can keep track of progress no matter on what hardware they are playing one of the Angry Birds games.

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Adobe Announces Flash Builder 4.5, Touch SDK

April 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

With the release of Creative Suite 5.5, Adobe also announced the release of Flash Builder 4.5. With Flash Builder 4.5, development time of mobile apps should be reduced with 40%.