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