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MWC: Gameloft Talks Ubisoft Rivalry and Future Outlook

February 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Stuart Dredge took some time to sit down with Gameloft’s Gonzague de Vallois to talk about the future of the company and its rivalry with former sister company Ubisoft.

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MWC: Google Pleased with Android Performance

February 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

During his speech about Google’s mobile ambitions, Eric Schmidt also took the time to tell the listeners more about the results of Google’s Android platform which was launched over a year ago.

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MWC: Schmidt on Google’s Mobile Ambitions

February 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Google invests in fiber and wireless networks, has its own mobile OS, started selling its own phone directly and gives Mobile top priority. Yet operators will have nothing to fear according to Eric Schmidt.

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UsTwo Launches App for Developers

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

UsTwo has developed a new app named PositionApp. With this app, developers (or anyone else) can research placement of any app in the app store. You can even browse individual markets.

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MWC: 300.000 360 Devices in the Market

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Vodafone has been pushing their 360 devices for only a few months and already the operator has sold over 300.000 handsets. Vodafone has 7.000 apps and games for those devices.

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MWC: Operators Unite Against the App Store

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Something interesting is about to happen as 24 operators world-wide have shown the intention to create a Wholesale Applications Community. This community is a new platform for app and game delivery.

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I-play Discontinues J2me/Brew Development and Distribution

February 11th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Brew, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Rumors have been floating around MGB for weeks, but starting yesterday, I-play started to inform their developers about their intentions to end the support for Java and Brew based mobile games.

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Gameloft Celebrates 10.000 Twitter Followers

February 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Creating a huge fanbase isn’t easy and we have to admit, Gameloft has been working very hard for it. Over the past months we have seen the company do many promotions with the result of reaching 100.000 Twitter followers today.

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Javaground Sells Tech to Pay the Bills

February 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Javaground is in big problems as one of its creditors made a claim for $ 2 Million. The company has 10 days to pay the bills in order to survive, or it will lose its assets to the creditor in question.