Gameloft’s finance director Alexandre de Rochefort recently stirred up controversy by saying that the company planned to cut back on developing games for Android because there wasn’t enough money in it. He also said “many” other developers were doing the same. Now, comes survey data from Skyhook Wireless that backs up de Rochefort’s statements. Skyhook [...]
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The biggest question of the year for Twitter is the same question that hounded the microblogging site last year: how can Twitter generate revenue? Now, we may have finally gotten an answer- wait until next year. If all goes as planned, 2010 will be the year of revenue for Twitter. Although few details have been [...]
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Asri al-Baker’s been a Symbian enthusiast since the Psion days. He published i-Symbian for many years until shutting it down last year. Asri recently started up his blog again as “The Independent Symbian Blog“. It’s updated daily with items on the latest Symbian hardware and software including some of the best coverage I’ve seen of [...]
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Are you shopping on your mobile phone today for Cyber Monday deals? Mobile phones are predicted to make an impact on retail sales this year. Cyber Monday shoppers are more frequently using their phones to make a purchase. The rise of Cyber Monday and growth of mobile shopping is significant for mobile marketers. With more [...]
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Vienna-based mobile game developer Xendex has raised $3.5 million in a second round of funding. Previous backer Pontis Capital led the round, with participation from a number of private investors. This brings Xendex’s total raise to just over $7 million. The company will use the new money for future licensing deals, and to fund its [...]
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Premier League football club Wolverhampton Wanderers has partnered with Oxygen8 Communications to launch a range of new mobile services for its fans. The club is using Oxygen8’s mobile platform to offer supporters the opportunity to receive text message alerts on their mobile phones about upcoming games, fixture changes and special offers. Oxygen8 says that its [...]
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China Mobile Communications Corp’s research and development branch, China Mobile Research Institute, has chosen Red Bend to provide software for firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updating and device management (DM) for mobile phones that use the Android-based OPhone OS (Open Mobile Phone Operating System). China Mobile Communications Corp is the world’s largest wireless network operator, with more [...]
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A Whitepaper launched today by KPMG challenges the theory that content is the only valuable commodity that companies need to consider when developing their online and digital propositions.The paper, ‘Emerging Business Models to Help Serve Tomorrow’s Digital Tribes’, proposes that rather than solely attributing value to content, there are in fact 20 digital value propositions [...]
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The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) has selected zamano’s Publish-i Smartphone publishing application to enable supporters to download and read official match programmes on their iPhone or iPod touch devices. The application launched in time for Saturday’s match against S. Africa, enabling rugby fans to download the programme for the game. Once downloaded, the programme [...]
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Is News Corp (NYSE: NWS) taking on Apple, as well as Google, as it looks to reassert the value of its newspaper content? This brilliant spoof iPhone commercial describes its UK tabloid The Sun in terms gadget-heads will love (check out its “26-inch panoramic matt CMYK, full-colour display”), and the homage is spot-on. News International [...]
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