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Storm8 Games Pulled from App Store

November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Following the lawsuit story yesterday, several Storm8 games have been pulled from the App Store. In the US, only World War, Kingdoms Live and Vampires Live remained online.

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Apple Moves into Stereotypes

November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

When we opened up iTunes this morning, we noticed a new promotional page aiming specifically at Girls called “App Store Essentials: Apps for Girls”. With this theme, Apple is clearly supporting a stereotype view on the market.

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Vodafone Targets

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

By March 2010, the Vodafone group expects to save

3UK Expands Flexion Usage

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Earlier this year, Accumulate and H3G UK announced to be collaborating by using the Flexion technology for Try & Buy functionality on one of it’s sales channels. The trial proved successful.

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Storm8 Sued over Privacy Infringement

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Storm8 have the questionable honor of being the second iPhone developer that has been exposed for collecting consumer data without asking permission for it according to a lawsuit last week.

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$99 iPhone 3Gs 8GB Ahead

November 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Rumors say AT&T is feeling the competition from Verizon’s droid handset. To counter the competition, Apple and AT&T would be launching a brand new edition of the iPhone 3Gs for this holiday season.

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iMario, The Next Apple Fail?

November 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A new dodgy app appeared on the App Store called iMario. For

T-Mobile NL Reacts to iPhone Hacks

November 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

T-Mobile NL has announced that the company will start to work on a solution to avoid the clients with jailbreaked iPhones being hacked via a flaw in OpenSSH.

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Flurry: There’s an ‘Addict’ for That

November 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Next to e-books overtaking mobile games on the App Store, Flurry revealed another interesting demographic. They tracked the ‘addict’ segment in Apple’s App Store.

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Low Demand for the iPhone in China

November 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

When China Unicom announced to start selling the iPhone in China, we already reported that the number of devices in the first batch was very low for that market. Reports are now coming in that the iPhone is even less popular than expected.