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Samsung’s Market Survey Results

December 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

With the release of Bada, Samsung also exposed the results of some consumer research they did. Samsung’s survey was held under feature phone owners in France, the UK and Italy.

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Ovi Opens to Dutch Consumers

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Until today, Dutch consumers could only visit the English Ovi store and where limited to charging their credit cards whenever they wanted to make a purchase. Now, the store is localized and premium SMS billing is enabled.

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Dutch Consumer Authorities Complaint about Apple

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »

Last weekend, Apple got slashed on Dutch TV for ignoring warrantee obligations as defined according to Dutch law. Consumer Authorities are now joining forces to try and convince Apple to operate in-line with the law.

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Gofresh Attracts 2 Million Mobile Gamers

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Web Apps | No Comments »

Mobile wap gaming specialist Gofresh announced it’s wap decks have attracted 2 million mobile gamers from all over the world. This proves simple browser based mobile games are still far from dead.

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Nintendo Evaluates Action toward Nokia’s N900

November 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Last week, we reported that the Nokia N900 has several emulators on board that allow consumers to play games from consoles like the Super Nintendo and the good old Gameboy. Now it seems Nintendo might take action toward it.

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Barroso Chose Neelie Kroes for Telecoms and ICT

November 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

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Thanksgiving Decreases App Store Pricing

November 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though we are an ocean away, it’s clear Thanksgiving has a huge impact on mobile game pricing within the App Store. Many companies have lowered the prices of their products.

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EA not Interested in Android?

November 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

This week, Gameloft announced to cut expenses on Android because of lacking performance. A day after, it confirmed support for Android 2.0. ME’s Stuart Dredge started to dig into EA, the biggest publisher in the market today.

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Nokia’s N900, Playing with Fire

November 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Gaming Gear | 2 Comments »

Nokia’s N900 is the new flagship device of the company and one of it’s gaming features is a set of emulators. The company demonstrated the emulators with games from companies like Nintendo

Orange Opens Discussion Platform

November 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

In an attempt to leverage innovation in mobile apps, games and other forms of entertainment, Orange has launched an open discussion platform for all those in the industry.