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Articles tagged with: Mobile Games
Mobile Shopping, Coupons and SNS Usage Increasing in Japan
According to the latest ROA Group report, social networking services (SNS), mobile shopping and mobile coupon usage is increasing in Japan, opening new opportunities for mobile advertising. The report is based on a user survey analyzed by ROA Group, and examines the differences between 4 user groups identified as Simple Users, Benefit Oriented Users, Free Entertainment Users and Multitask Users, including 1,267 men and women in their 10s to 60s, evenly divided by age and gender. more
Related Tags: social-networking, Japan
MEF to Publish a Mobile Games Sales Chart for the USA
The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) and NPD Group have announced plans to launch a formal sales chart for mobile games sold in the USA. more
Related Tags: glu-mobile, npd-group, mobile-entertainment-forum, ringtones, mobile-content, USA
Electronic Arts Buys Korean Mobile Games Developer
Electronic Arts is buying the mobile games developer, Hands-On Mobile Korea, which best known for its mobile role-playing game, Heroes Lore. Upon completion of the acquisition, the former Hands-On Mobile Korea team will become EA Mobile Korea and will play a strategic role in the EA Mobile Asia development and publishing growth plans. more
Related Tags: oem, ea, Korea South
Nokia Signs Mobile Maps Deal with Orange
Nokia and Orange have signed an agreement to do something with Nokia handsets - although the statement issued by the companies is light on detail. It seems that the two companies will integrate some limited mobile services offered by Nokia into Nokia handsets offered by Orange on its mobile networks. more
Related Tags: orange, smartphones, ovi, mobile-content
Mobile Rich Media Advertising to Near $2.8 Billion by 2012
Media Analyst Screen Digest has just published its latest report and says that it believes the market for rich media advertising on mobile will reach US$2.79 billion by 2012, with global mobile TV advertising accounting for the lions share at US$2.44 billion. In terms of the formats that will deliver this revenue, there are those that will deliver, and those that will disappoint. more
Related Tags: google, microsoft, mobile-tv, rcom, compete, screen-digest, mobile-advertising, weather
Mobile Content Platform Market Up Almost 20% But Short of Expectations
The market for premium mobile content platforms grew almost 20% in 2007, resulting in a $3.4 billion share of the $18.5 billion of revenue generated by the mobile premium content market, according to recent research by MultiMedia Intelligence. As cellular subscribers worldwide increasingly look for personalization and enhanced entertainment content on their mobile handsets, subscribers are continuing to purchase more premium content, such as ringtones, music, mobile games and video. more
Related Tags: amd, sprint-nextel, comverse, ringtone, sprint, ringtones, mobile-content
Vodafone New Zealand Outsources its Mobile Games Platform
Vodafone New Zealand has fully outsourced its operations and management of its mobile games service to End2End. The company is providing Vodafone NZ its Content Retailing Solution, a fully outsourced, managed and hosted mobile games retailing service, including content sourcing and deployment, retail management and settlement. It also offers Vodafone NZ the option to run an operator branded 'Club Zone' with global cross-operator connected gaming, community and multiplayer. more
Related Tags: mach, New Zealand
Mixed Fortunes for the Mobile Games Industry
While more people are playing mobile games than ever before, the percentage of people downloading a new game did not increase over the past year in the United States and Western Europe, reports M:Metrics. more
Related Tags: smartphones, samsung, blackberry, apple-iphone
Glu Buys 3D Mobile Games Developer
Mobile games developer, Glu Mobile says that it is to buy rival Superscape for approximately $36 million. The acquisition of Superscape will considerably expand Glu's US presence and add significant development and publishing capabilities to Glu's existing resources. more
Related Tags: verizon-wireless, alltel, moscow, glu-mobile
Mobile Entertainment Service Market to Triple to $64bn by 2012
Music, games and mobile TV will be the major contributors to the global mobile entertainment market which will rise from just over $20 billion in 2007 to more than $64 billion by 2012, according to a new report by Juniper Research. Other mobile entertainment sectors include User-generated Content, Gambling, Adult and Infotainment. more
Related Tags: mobile-tv, juniper-research, mobile-music