Gameloft, a mobile game developer, says business is up in this down economy thanks largely to the iPhone. Developer Gameloft grew its mobile game sales by 18 percent in the last quarter of 2008, according to the company’s latest financial report. Now 93 percent of the company’s annual sales come from mobile games, while console [...]
Earlier today, PocketGamer.biz wrote about a rumor of a “premium games” category coming soon to the iPhone App Store. The rumor said the category would be only open to select large publishers and the games would sell for $19.99. Now, Slide to Play says it has “confirmed” the rumor, but does not know when the [...]
Mobile applications have much to gain if all of Gartner’s recent 2009 and 2010 mobile predictions come true. The list below was compiled by Gartner and I’ve added under each point how it could impact mobile apps. Please share your own ideas in the comments field. 1.Bluetooth 3.0 Gartner: The Bluetooth 3.0 specification will be [...]
12seconds.tv iPhone application is now free for a limited time according to an update sent out to subscribers via e-mail from the app’s development team. Yes, the service that Scobleizer said “shows the future of tech startups in our new ‘reality-based’ economy” is still trying to drum up attention to fill the service with videos [...]
A Google Android engineer, now working for Coupons, Inc., will now work with the iPhone application Grocery iQ. This either means ex-Android engineer Stephen Horowitz will work on the iPhone app, or he’ll work on bringing that iPhone app to Android. According to Jason Boehle, co-founder of Free State Labs, LLC, the independent iPhone developer, [...]
