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Nokia signs exclusive deal to land 25 EA and Chillingo games on Windows Phone
Mirror's Edge, FIFA 12, and Dead Space on the way
Nokia to launch Lumia 710 in UK on 1 February
Comes in six colour variations
CES 2012: Samsung to launch modified Galaxy Tab 7.0 in Germany at end of January to skirt injunction
Design sufficiently different
People sparking baseless Microsoft buyout rumours are running out of fresh material reckons Nokia CEO Elop
There are synergies across feature and smartphones
BlackBerry can regain lost ground ... if developers support it, reckons Paw Print Games director Antony White
Bottom has been reached
Figures from Read It Later suggest number of Kindle Fire registrations over Christmas was similar to iPad
Audience likes to read
Gameloft cleared of dangerous working conditions claims by New Zealand Labour Department
Body finds 'no substantial evidence'
App Annie updates analytics platform for iOS and unveils private beta for Android
'Fearless data geek' now utilised by 75,000 apps
CES 2012: Nokia's Lumia 900 success will benefit Samsung and HTC in US, reckons Microsoft's Aaron Woodman
Stops short of branding device as 'flagship'
Best Buy's Android dev contest Get Discovered heads towards March final in San Francisco
Distribution, seed funding and promo on offer
Nokia to sell more than 100 million Windows Phones by end of 2013, reports Morgan Stanley
Lumia 900 to open doors
Glu partners with ngmoco to bring freemium favourite Gun Bros. to Mobage on Android
30 western aimed games now on board
Distimo adds support for Millennial, Smaato, Mojiva and BuzzCity to Monitor analytics tool
Better insight into your ad performance
CES 2012: Imagination details PowerVR Series 6 GPU, boasts 20 times performance boost
Future Apple hardware will fly thanks to Rogue design
Medialets launches private marketplace with real time bidding to link publishers with advertisers
Platform generating 20 billion impressions a month
Non-iPad tablets have failed, says Dell CCO Steve Felice, but firm still planning to re-enter market before end of 2012
Windows 8 looking like OS of choice
Urban Airship pushing out 1 billion notifications a month as lifetime total tops 10 billion
Tool increasingly important for mobile markerters
CES 2012: Lenovo K800 unveiled as first Intel Medfield smartphone
Coming to China in Q2
CES 2012: Qualcomm picks Gameloft's Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation to showcase Snapdragon S4
Title optimised to make most of processor
Neon Play sees revenue triple as studio highlights App Store's extended Christmas bounce
Festive fever lasts longer than expected
TeePee Games signs deal with Express Group to power OK! Games portal on Facebook
Magazine also launching Android store
HTML5 needs one big hit to regain momentum and trigger 'boom time', reckons Albino Pixel's Dave Allanson
Platform yet to blossom
Social games to dominate as in-app purchase revenue doubles to $4.8 billion by 2016, reports Juniper Research
Gaming on tablets also set for big bump
CES 2012: Nvidia and Asus lift lid on $249 7-inch Tegra 3-powered tablet
China the focus for Ice Cream Sandwich device
CES 2012: Elop claims Nokia 'establishing beachheads' on Windows Phone as firm unveils US bound Lumia 900
Microsoft man Ballmer praises Finnish firm's speed
Angry Birds heads the list of 2011's top 20 most popular Xbox Live games on Windows Phone
Half of titles are published by Microsoft
Snack-like experiences are the best way to make money on iPhone, reckons NaturalMotion's Torsten Reil at HackFwd
Make the player feel good early on
Moblyng closes doors as cross-platform HTML5 play 'fails to monetise'
Future didn't come fast enough
Business Insider speculates that Microsoft is readying Xbox Live games for iOS and Android
Breaking down the walls?
Motorola estimates sales of $3.4 billion in Q4 2011 as smartphone shipments hit 5.3 million
Makes up more than half of all handsets
iPad 3 in March a reality, but October launch for iPad 4 'made-up nonsense' says Daring Fireball's Gruber
DigiTimes only half right
Microsoft makes move on Asia as Windows Phone Marketplace preps for China, Indonesia and Malaysia
Argentina, Peru and the Philippines also on board
NimbleBit's Tiny Tower tops 1 million DAUs, clocks up 10 million sessions a day
Lots of elevator music
Symbian named as most popular mobile OS in 2011 as BlackBerry falls away, reports StatCounter
Android and iOS neck and neck
Apple readying two new iPads for launch in 2012, reckons DigiTimes
iPad 3 in March, followed by iPad 4 in September?
Rumours start up again that Microsoft will buy Nokia's smartphone division
Eldar Murtazin stokes the fires
Myriad partners with AppCarousel to serve up Android app platform for internet-enabled TVs
From showcasing to billing
Infinity Blade's franchise earnings top $30 million in first year
Sequel tops $5 million in little over a month
Darkness falls on Bright Light as sources claim EA closed its UK studio before end of 2011
Talent spread across Criterion and Playfish
Rumour: Apple poaches Adobe VP Todd Teresi to head up iAd
Goal to kickstart moribund ad network
User acquisition tool Playerize secures $1 million in first funding round
Connecting players with F2P social and mobile games
Mobile dev tools should help studios cut costs, not deliver fancy graphics reckons AppFurnace's Tom Melamed
HTML5 tech good for location-based games
Snapdragon GameCommand promo app to hit Android in North America on January 10
Set to coincide with CES 2012 keynote
App downloads on iPad top 3 billion in 20 months, says ABI Research
Accounts for 19% of Apple's total
Epic Games' Mark Rein to keynote London's Mobile Games Forum
And all attendees to get free BlackBerry PlayBook
TransGaming buys Oberon's TV games division for $7 million
Gains access to 50 million households
AT&T bags Lumia 900 in US as Nokia and Microsoft plan $100 million marketing splash
Flagship device due in March
Google bolsters patent library as firm acquires 217 filings from IBM
Third exchange between two parties
TouchPad's demise down to an ahead of its time webOS riddled with shortcuts, claim former Palm employees
HP was sold a dud