Location-based mobile software provider Booyah launched InCrowd. This social game brings together GPS functionality and Facebook social networking profiles and enables new kinds of augmented reality by mobile interaction of friends in real-world locales. Weiter hier....

As commented by Samsung, its new platform for the U.S. TV and Blu-ray market could eventually align with its smartphone push. "Our goal is to make it easier and easier to allow folks to develop across different platforms," said Olivier Manuel, director of content for Samsung North America. Samsung is offering $500,000 in prizes to developers who build applications for its own TVs and Blu-ray players. Companies like Netflix and Pandora are already supporting Samsung Apps. Weiter hier....

New digital media subscription services cold be introduced in the near future by Sony and Amazon.com. The Financial Times reported that Sony plans to launch a premium music and video download service optimized for its many devices like the PlayStation gaming units or Sony Ericsson mobile handsets in the next year. Similar plans are reported from Amazon.com, which might expand its portfolio with introducing an own television and movie subscription platform optimised for browsers and connected devices. Weiter hier....

The worldwide smartphone applications market grew more than $2.2 billion dollars within the first six months of 2010, according to research2guidance. Mobile application download numbers reached a total of 3.8 billion in only 6 months, compared to 3.1 billion in 2009 according to the latest report by research2guidance. Weiter hier....

Smartphones, apps and the infinite variety of mobile applications are reaching more and more people all over the world. Consumer behaviour and publishing as well as marketing structures in the industry are rapidly changing. The enormous growth of the congress-fair M-Days “The home of MOBILE” reflects these developments. With 1,650 visitors the fully booked M-Days 2010 had grown by 122 percent compared to the year before and reached the capacity limits of the BMW Welt in Munich. Weiter hier....

Emerging markets will be the key driver in the growth of global mobile value-added-service revenues from $200 billion in 2009 to $340 billion in 2014, according to new research from Informa Telecoms & Media. China, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Russia, Poland and the Ukraine are expected to account for 36 per cent of the global mobile data revenues in 2014. Weiter hier....

The virtual economy is booming due to microtransactions. Consumers spend in games played on social networks an amount which is expected to rise to more than 1 billion US-Dollar in 2012, according to latest research from Screen Digest. The emergence of social games, which were almost non-existent three years ago, has resulted in mane new gamers and also propelled the growth of the traditional portal-led casual games markets due to the overlap in cpnsumers. Weiter hier....

Nokia Siemens Networks will acquire the networks infrastructure of Motorola for 1.2 Billion US-Dollar. This transaction is expected to significantly strengthen Nokia Siemens Networks' presence globally, particularly in the United States and Japan.
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Global IP Solution Studies has published a whitepaper on the use of video conferences in mobile communication. The renown technology developer for processing real-time voice and video over IP networks states that the high-quality video calling offered on devices like the iPhone 4 could completely reinvent mobile communication, and that an explosion of video capable apps and devices can happen in the near future. 1,200 senior business professionals in a variety of industries and employment positonsfrom the United States, China, Japan and South Korea were surveyed in this study. Weiter hier....

The ZigBee Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions supporting energy management in residential, commercial and consumer electronics applications, today announced LG Electronics and Toshiba join Philips, Freescale Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Samsung and Sony on the Steering Committee.


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Online casual games and mobile games are becoming increasingly popular. At the GAMES CONVENTION ONLINE the research institute gamematrix and games publisher Greentube presented the first results of their study, which compares demographic data provided by several market research institutes and analyses the user behaviour of online and mobile casual gamers. Male consumers, for instance, are forerunners in using paid mobile and online contents. Online gaming is still more popular with 55-year-olds, but mobile games are catching up continuously. Obviously online casual gamers are the social networkers of today.
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Accoriding to a recent report from Pyramid Research, there is a boom in free apps. This presents network operators with a potentially serious problem who are hoping to create new revenue by selling apps to mobile users Weiter hier....

Alcatel-Lucent has acquired ProgrammableWeb, a resource for application programming interfaces enabling developers to build web, mobile and related connected apps targeting both consumers and enterprise users. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Weiter hier....

The Korean handset maker Samsung now has its Galaxy S smartphone on all four of the Tier 1 U.S. carriers - like Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile USA - and brings the device also to regional operator U.S. Cellular. Tripling the global smartphone sales of Samsung is expected. Weiter hier....

In advance of its transition into the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), the OMTP today announced its three final document releases. The three new update documents focus the topics of camera maintenance, visual voicemail maintenance und common charger and local data connectivity maintenance. Weiter hier....