Archive for the ‘Analysis & Editorial’ Category

SonyEricsson Relaunches Developer World Site

February 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

SonyEricsson has just announced the relaunch of their developer portal. Apart from a totally new layout, the company also improved the way documents and tools are organized.

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Flight Control Sold 2 Million Units

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Firemint has announced that Flight Control has sold 2 Million copies on Apple’s App Store in ten months time. With 2 Million downloads, this might just be the most popular title in its genre.

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Help Me, Customer Services for Mobile Game Developers

January 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

A new Pakistani startup is focusing at providing customer support services for app developers. The company hopes to deliver a low cost alternative to handling consumer complaints and comments.

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Tetris Mobile Passes 100 Million Downloads

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

Tetris has always been a success on mobile and it will probably stay a success for a long time. Today, EA is expected to announce that Tetris has managed to generate a total of 100 Million downloads since 2005 (the year they bought Jamdat).

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O’Reilly’s iPhone Game Development Book

January 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Creating games for the iPhone doesn’t seem hard considering the huge amount of games available on the platform. To aid even more developers in entering the App Store, O’Reilly just finished a book called ‘iPhone Game Development’.

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PocketGod Downloaded 2 Million Times

January 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The guys over at Bolt Creative have celebrated the 2 millionth paid download of PocketGod. According to the publisher they are just too late to make the 2010 Guinness World Records Gamers Edition with the news.

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App Store Developers Donate via App Relief

January 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The earthquake in Haiti has woken up the caring side of a number of App Store developers. Through the website AppRelief.com, they are announcing to donate incoming revenues to the victims.

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Dutch Consumer Authority Sues Vodafone and T-Mobile

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Dutch consumer authority ‘Consumentenbond’ has prepared a lawsuit against Vodafone and T-Mobile over the (ab)use of Premium SMS as a billing system. Operators don’t take enough responsibility according to the organization.

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Mplayit: iPhone Losing Its Edge In Apps, Cross Platform Titles Prevail

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

According to new research from Mplayit, the quality of the Android and BlackBerry App offering is catching up with that of Apple’s much praised iPhone. The quantity however, is still far from there.

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Flurry and ComScore’s Present Mobile Audience Measurement

January 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Flurry (which has just merged with Pinch Media) has now announced a new collaboration with ComScore. The two will team up for mobile audience measurement services.