Archive for the ‘Analysis & Editorial’ Category

Fring to Compete With Apple’s FaceTime

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Mobile chat app Fring has chosen to compete with Apple on their FaceTime video calling functionality. Fring’s solution offers a few benefits FaceTime doesn’t.

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Shazam Chases Dutch Developer

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Landmark Digital Services, owner of the patents of the music recognition service, is chasing a Dutch developer who wanted to publish an open source version of Shazam for Java based mobile phones.

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Metismo and OpenPath Form Strategic Alliance

June 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Metismo and OpenPath have agreed to share their development knowledge. As a result, Metismo gains Brew development experience right from the heart of the Brew markets.

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MU: Milq Media, The Confession

May 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Milq Media took the stage to tell the experience they have had with their app Confession. Confession is a little confession box app on the iPhone which allows users to submit their confession anonymously.

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MU: Roomloaded – Call ‘n Play

May 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Events & Conferences | No Comments »

Ronald Siebes from Roomloaded has taken the stage to explain a bit more about gaming on urban screens with your phone, technology made possible with a Dutch open source project called RoomWare.

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MU: PavingWays’ Next Generation Comic E-Reader

May 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »

Rocco has taken the stage to present their ideas on next generation comic e-readers. PavingWays ltd (Germany) is currently working on a special e-reader called Panda Tosho.

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MU: Scoreloop, Increasing Interaction with Social Gaming

May 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Events & Conferences | No Comments »

Christian van der Leeden kicks off with a presentation of Scoreloop. After a small introduction to the company, he explains how networks like Scoreloop can increase engagement between developer and player.

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Foursquare Re-Launches App Gallery

May 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Foursquare has re-launched its App Gallery. The App Gallery is meant for developers who have build apps (on mobile devices) that submit or visualize data coming from the Foursquare community.

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YourAppReviewed.com Bogus Reviews for Sale

May 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

We recently received an e-mail from blogger Rob Walch. On his blog, he wrote a short story on a service called YourAppReviewed.com (YAR for short). The company seems to be selling positive reviews.

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Financials: Glu Q1 2010

May 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Glu (GLUU) has announced its financials. Though share prices suddenly started to rise on Monday, the numbers didn’t bring any of the fireworks many analysts expected and stock traders hoped for.