Windows Phone 7 launches on Verizon in US with $150 HTC Trophy
Market leader adds support for OS
Qualcomm unveils iOS support for Augmented Reality SDK
Multiple operating systems in line
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games - Order & Chaos Online, Dofus: Battles
Critically acclaimed
Prepping for IPO, PopCap launches Bejeweled-based Pop Tower meta-social mobile game on GREE
Part of emerging Asia Pacific expansion
Data-focused publisher Fuse Powered raises $2 million in initial funding
BlackBerry Partners and NFQ Ventures stump up
PapayaMobile withdraws from games development to fully focus on social network
Will open source game engine for partners
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens debate whether Android can be fixed as a commercial opportunity
Reliving the sins of the past
Lodsys should 'put up or shut up' says lawyer Jas Purewal
IAP patent claim could be landmark case
Mobile sales hit 428 million in Q1 2011 as smartphone share rises to 23.6% says Gartner
Samsung enjoys strongest quarter ever
EnsenaSoft claims it's the first company to do 1 million Mac App Store downloads
Also the larger publisher on the store
BlackBerry PlayBook sales hit 250,000 in first month reckons RBC analyst Abramsky
Q1 2011 total could hit half a million
Half of all app revenue in US made on iOS
But Android the top platform, with 53% market share
US DVD rental firm Redbox signs up to Tap.Me's mobile ad platform
Prioritising content and rewards over interruption
Ngmoco buys longterm development partner Rough Cookie
Gains European base
63 million iOS gamers in US and Europe clocking up 5 million downloads a day
IAPs make up 40% of revenue on iPhone free releases
Angry Birds series surpasses 200 million downloads
Chrome web release signs up 6 million fans in a week
We have the ambition to be the No.1 Android OEM says Sony Ericsson CTO
No plans to support Windows Mobile
SPIL Games' Peter Driessen says it's already seeing great traction for mobile HTML5 gaming
Predicts the browser will beat the app
Tag Games' Paul Farley on five transitional challenges in moving from single player to social game development
Everything is going to change
Intel says 10 Oak Trail-powered tablets bound for Computex
Android and MeeGo devices to be unveiled
Super Rewards integrates with Corona to provide development, distribution and monetisation tools
Incentivised downloads leading the Android charge
Apple 'actively investigating' Lodsys in-app purchase patent claim
Legal team looking into firm's hold
Particle Code launches multi-platform SDK beta for native and HTML5 app development
Write once, deploy multiple times
Layar launches AR development and creation tools
Making it easier to publish AR content
Verizon to launch $200 Xperia Play in US on May 26
Comes with seven games pre-loaded
Angry Birds on top as Nook Color passes 1 million app downloads
Solitaire, Aces Jewel Hunt and Mahjong also selling well
Amazon rumoured to readying Nvidia-powered tablets for 2011 debut
Dual-core 'Coyote' and quad-core 'Hollywood' specced
GDC Europe 11 to play host to smartphone and tablet summit on August 16
Fishlabs and Exozet Games in attendance
Air Penguin revenues hit $1 million in first month on App Store
Tops paid charts across US and Europe
Thumb Arcade preps self publishing developer movement under banner of Who Needs Chillingo?
Other publishers available, apparently equally dead
iPhone chasing down Android's ad impressions lead in US says InMobi
Nokia and Symbian remain in charge worldwide
Gogii Games launches $100,000 King of Casual Contest
Especially looking for hidden object Android games
Unity unveils Unite 11 as fifth annual developer conference hits San Francisco
Three day event starts September 28
Nokia rubbishes claims it's preparing to sell handset business to Microsoft
Where's the synergy?
IAP patent claimant Lodsys defends position, claims Apple, Google and Microsoft are licensees
But they can't bless thirdparty products
PopCap heads to Android with exclusive two week-only Amazon Appstore availability
Chuzzle and Plants vs. Zombies go free for launch
Mobile Pie's Will Luton on why the growth of freemium games is inevitable
Dismantling the connection between price and quality
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang admits Android tablets beset by problems
Marketing, pricing, software and retail all at fault
Nokia waves goodbye to Ovi as services rebranded
Ovi and out
The PG.Biz Hot Five: Zynga acquisitions, Gingerbread's growing pains, and ngmoco all go on games
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Sony Online Entertainment VP of development joins Zynga Austin
John Blakely installed as general manager
NaturalMotion's Torsten Reil says freemium is potentially much more profitable than premium
More hope the hype
PG.biz week that was: 100m Android devices, 33.5% of Infinity Blade's revenues from IAP, GREE's Q3 sales up 77% to $198m, and ngmoco is lost in translation
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OpenFeint brings free-to-play platform OFX to Android via private beta
Allows developers to run their own in-app stores
iOS developers hit with threat of lawsuit for using Apple's in-app purchase system
Unknown targeting studios over patent infringement
Microsoft, HTC, Nokia and Sony Ericsson team up to take fight against Apple's 'app store' claim to Europe
Firms file papers with EU
Gamevil's FY2011 Q1 revenues rise to $5.9 million, but net profits down down 23% yoy
Expenses rise as company goes on the hire
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games First Touch Soccer, Jump Out!
Critically acclaimed
Mobile ad platform Tap.Me taps up Rockfish Brand Ventures in fresh funding round
Two firms sign partnership
Gameloft lines up six games for Samsung Smart TV
Brain Challenge and TV Show King hit Samsung Apps