Posts Tagged ‘Android’

Playnow Arena Opens up to Android

December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

In a special Christmas video, SonyEricsson not only showcases their new Xperia X10 broadcasting possibilities, but the company also announced that developers can start uploading Android content to the Playnow Arena.

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Android Dashboard Launched

December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Last week, Google launched the Android Dashboard. Through this dashboard, developers can gain insights into the adoption of new Android OS versions by consumers. Android 1.6 is leading the charts.

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IO’10 Trip Hawkins – Digital Chocolate

December 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Who doesn't know Trip Hawkins? He founded a mammoth in the gaming industry called EA, a console called the 3DO and this year, as CEO of Digital Chocolate, he invented the Omni Gamer!

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Odroid Devkit Available World-Wide

December 13th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

A few months ago, we announced that the Odroid (Android based handheld console) was only available in it's home market; Korea. Starting this week, developers all over the world can order an Odroid Devkit.

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GlobalFun Reorganizes

December 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

This summer, GlobalFun has been through organizational restructuring by closing down its Buenos Aires development unit. With continued changes in the market GlobalFun, is adapting itself again.

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Skyhook Releases Android Developer Survey

December 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

Skyhook Wireless, a company specialized in LBS services for both mobile game and application developers, has issues a survey under thirty of their clients to check platform satisfaction on Android.

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MiKandi Launches Naughty App Store

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

MiKandi has released a new Android based App Store to compete with the original Android Market. The big differentiator will be adult content as MiKandi promotes anything that is legally allowed.

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Android and Chrome OS Will Merge

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google founder Sergey Brin has announced that Android and Chrome OS will be merged at some point. Then and which name the OS’ will receive is unknown for now.

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In-App Payments on Android

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It’s not officially supported yet, but the developer of Ringz (Urbian) found a workaround that works good enough for them to offer new level packs to consumers.