Urban Airship pushing out 1 billion notifications a month as lifetime total tops 10 billion
Tool increasingly important for mobile markerters
CES 2012: Motorola signs multi-year strategic partnership with Intel for phones and tablets
First fruits due from late summer
CES 2012: Lenovo K800 unveiled as first Intel Medfield smartphone
Coming to China in Q2
Anomaly Warzone Earth, Amazing Breaker, and World of Goo are the top-reviewed iPhone games of 2011
Critical acclaim
CES 2012: Qualcomm picks Gameloft's Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation to showcase Snapdragon S4
Title optimised to make most of processor
ZeptoLab launches HTML5-powered Cut the Rope on Internet Explorer 9
Pushing browser's prowess
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
Nokia Store generating 11 million downloads a day as 177 developers pass million mark
India the most app happy nation
CES 2012: Xperia S leads the way as Sony lifts lid on 'next generation smartphones'
3 other Xperia handsets make the cut
CES 2012: 'Thousands' of new apps on board as RIM dishes the details on PlayBook OS 2.0
Official unveiling imminent
HTML5 needs one big hit to regain momentum and trigger 'boom time', reckons Albino Pixel's Dave Allanson
Platform yet to blossom
CES 2012: AT&T unveils 130-strong API catalogue for HTML5 web apps
Also set to launch AppCenter marketplace
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
Appy's Paul O'Connor on why Hollywood doesn't get mobile games... yet
Turning down the usual suspects
CES 2012: Nvidia and Asus lift lid on $249 7-inch Tegra 3-powered tablet
China the focus for Ice Cream Sandwich device
ZeptoLab looks to do a Rovio: hires SpongeBob expert to push toys, accessories, sweets and clothes
Cut the Rope downloads now over 70 million
CES 2012: Angry Birds coming to Samsung Smart TVs
Rovio also supplying animated shorts
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
CES 2012: Samsung unveils Smart TV support through its AdHub advertising platform
Allows access to 3D video through its VOD service
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
49% of US app consumption time is spent gaming, reckons Flurry
This ignores time spent on Facebook, however
Grand Theft Auto 3 and Sonic CD among the top-reviewed iPhone games for December
Critical acclaim
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
CES 2012: Samsung to release AirPlay for Android rival SwipeIt
Available for videos and photos, not yet games
CES 2012: Opera announces its HTML5-based Opera TV app store
Good for OEMs and developers
Learning Android Game Programming book aims to make Android development easy for beginners
With AndEngine framework and Java/Dalvik focus
Business Insider speculates that Microsoft is readying Xbox Live games for iOS and Android
Breaking down the walls?
Two more games for sale on eBay, though prices falling sharply
Bidders drying up
Apple set for combined iPhone and iPad sales of 170 million in 2012, predicts Canaccord Genuity
But Android device sales will be 335.5 million
Disney praises Android. Says holiday season saw it become a viable mobile gaming platform
Where's My Water? does 6 million downloads
No other handheld gaming device comes close to the PS Vita, reckons Icon's Hill-Whittall
And Sony the most developer-friendly platform holder
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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
PG.biz week that was: Tiny Tower has 1M DAUs, Angry Birds does 6.5M downloads on Xmas day, Samsung booms and Nintendo shoots itself in the foot
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Facebook lightens up, enables offerwalls to use in-game currency
Additional flexibility alongside Facebook Credits
Bob Mobile plans for strong mobile and gaming future, buys Dutch rival CLIQ in deal worth $71 million
Also signs licensing deal with Vivid Games
Microsoft makes move on Asia as Windows Phone Marketplace preps for China, Indonesia and Malaysia
Argentina, Peru and the Philippines also on board
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Terra Noctis, Lumi for iPhone / iPod Touch
Critically acclaimed
NimbleBit's Tiny Tower tops 1 million DAUs, clocks up 10 million sessions a day
Lots of elevator music
PlayJam partners with GameHouse for its Smart TV gaming platform
RealNetwork division finds another channel
UK indie Icon Games changes focus to Sony after Nintendo's strong arm tactics
WiiWare download figures ban the last straw
Symbian named as most popular mobile OS in 2011 as BlackBerry falls away, reports StatCounter
Android and iOS neck and neck
27% of MocoSpace's female gamers over thirty play for more than 3 hours daily
And most play at home not on the move
Nokia buys turnkey OS outfit Smarterphone for undisclosed sum
Blurring the feature-smartphone gap
Apple readying two new iPads for launch in 2012, reckons DigiTimes
iPad 3 in March, followed by iPad 4 in September?
Nintendo tells UK indie to remove its WiiWare game download figures from blog
For the record, total was 40,810
Gameloft's looking to HTML5, Windows 8 and Smart TVs in 2012 says Gonzague de Vallois
Also has social network under construction