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Forecast still cloudy, turbulent for mobile gaming

This year may well mark "a turning point in the mobile gaming industry," as Gameloft insisted last week. But for most wireless-game makers, there will be plenty more storm before the calm.The Paris-based publisher made the claim last week as it posted $34.1 million...

REVIEW: GoTV’s Rock On serves purpose, but that purpose should be free

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...

Game makers hope new platforms are game changers

There continues to be a fair amount of optimism among mobile game makers. Whether the rose-colored lenses are warranted, though, is more uncertain than ever.Gameloft last week offered a surprisingly upbeat outlook for wireless gaming as it posted $34.1 million in third-quarter revenues, up...

Verizon to offer mobile app for Disney vacationers

Verizon Wireless will begin offering a application to help people plan and manage their vacations to Walt Disney Parks and Resorts starting early next year.

Greystripe partners for India push

Ad-supported mobile game distributor Greystripe said it will expand its global footprint by partnering with India's largest online gaming company.The San Francisco-based firm is teaming with Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd., a division of the giant Reliance ADA Group, to offer more than 900 free...

Apple: Soon to Be a Mobile Gaming Force

I didn't expect much from games on the iPhone. I had visions of casual games, perhaps a fancy take on solitaire or a version of poker that takes advantage of the handset's touchscreen. Surely not a true mobile gaming experience.

Gameloft posts increased revenues, rosy outlook for mobile gaming

Gameloft offered a surprisingly upbeat outlook for mobile gaming as it posted $34.1 million in third-quarter revenues.The Paris-based game maker reported an 8% increase from last year's revenues during the same period, and generated $99.6 million during the first nine months of 2008 -...

IPhone users love their video games

Within days of buying his iPhone, John Furrier discovered that his 13-year-old son, Alec, was sneaking off with the device and downloading games. To reclaim his phone, Furrier had to buy his son an iPod Touch, which Alec quickly filled up with Pac-Man, Magic...

Will Buyers Eat Up Music on Flash Memory Cards?

There are several reasons why consumers may not take to slotMusic albums. For instance, you can't plug the cards into the most popular digital music players around, Apple's iPods. Nor can you fit them into most car and home stereos in use today.

Nokia’s N-Gage effort gets a vote from EA Mobile

EA Mobile said it will expand its support for Nokia Corp.'s N-Gage platform with nearly a dozen new, high-profile titles over the next year.EA Sports FIFA 09, Spore Origins and Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition will launch in time for the holiday...

Thumbplay tunes into crowded, complicated full-track download market

Thumbplay Inc. bulked up its library off-deck goodies with a full-track mobile download service.The New York-based wireless content company launched a beta version of the offering, which delivers DRM-free tunes directly to MP3-enabled phones as well as PCs. The songs are available for $1...

Verizon Embraces Google’s Android

How Verizon Wireless learned to stop worrying and love open access. Step one: Realizing it's a way to add low-cost customers

Google Earth Lands On Apple’s iPhone

Similar to Google Earth for desktop computers, the free software's animated world rotates and zooms in on a map of one's location.

PlayPhone secures another mobile music deal

PlayPhone Inc. notched its fourth and final major record label, securing a deal to distribute mastertones from Universal Music Group.A division of Vivendi, UMG claims nearly 20 subsidiary labels and artists such as 50 Cent, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, The Killers and U2. PlayPhone...

MySpace offers free downloadable app for Android

MySpace jumped aboard the Android bandwagon with a free, downloadable application customized for the new platform.MySpace Android allows users to upload photos, access band profiles and tour schedules, view comments on profiles and connect with other users. Members of the popular social-networking site can...

VZW’s proposed text-fee increase still being digested

FOR NOW, AT LEAST, Verizon Wireless has stepped away from plans to tack on a drastic 3-cent fee to each vendor-generated message on its network. But there's little doubt that some significant changes are in store for nearly every player on the business-to-consumer text...

Analyst Angle: OMG, the teen market is slowing

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.The last few years have seen significant growth in the U.S. teen market, a market...

Researchers expect hackers to prey on cell phones

Some of the most vicious Internet predators are hackers who infect thousands of PCs with special viruses and lash the machines together into "botnets" to pump out spam or attack other computers.

Simon & Schuster inks deal for books on cellphones: Macmillan Publishing Solutions’ MPS Mobile to get best sellers

Simon & Schuster unveiled a deal to make more than 500 of its titles available through the Macmillan Publishing Solutions' MPS Mobile.The effort launched with books such as the best-seller "The Secret" as well as titles from the "Star Trek" line; additional offerings will...

Dial-a-concert? Japan software turns mobiles musical

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Making music just got easier. A Japanese game maker has teamed up with the nation's leading cellphone network carrier to enable users to play an orchestra with their fingertips.

Hutchison subsidiary to bring low-end, social networking phones to U.S.: INQ to use BREW to integrate Facebook, other services

Social networking is exploding in mobile, according to figures released by ABI Research. And Frank Meehan thinks he knows how to capitalize.ABI polled 500 users of online social networks and found that 46% of respondents had used such services from their phones. MySpace and...

YouTube Adds Track-Buying Feature to Music Vids

Like the song in a YouTube video? Now you can "click to buy" it on iTunes or Amazon.

Web radio bill offers hope for mobile music: Royalty rates may thwart streaming uptake

Streaming-music service providers bought some time last week when Congress approved legislation that will allow them to renegotiate royalty rates some claim may otherwise drive them out of business. But nobody's celebrating yet.Legislators approved the Webcaster Settlement Act, which grants Internet broadcasters - including...

Melodis Raises $7M for Midomi iPhone App

In the same way that mobile access to Wikipedia has transformed stupid arguments, mobile song recognition apps are truly neat when you need to name that tune.