Posts Tagged ‘games’

SPB Software brings Online Games to WinMo Platform

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

SPB Software, one of the leading development houses for Windows Mobile applications and games have just recently announced a suite of online games and are calling them ‘Sp Online Games’.

Currently, the house is offering four instant online games along with a chat service. Using this service, one can play the games in realtime with virtually anyone in the world. The games currently offered include Checkers, Hexagon and Reversi and can be launched within 30 seconds. One may even continue an interrupted game from where it was left off. The players also have a customizable user profile, including pictures, name of handset and type and even the network.

This was originally a part of Spb Online and already has thousands of players registered on the network. The realtime chat enables the users to interact with fellow players on the network.

The online games software ins compatible with Windows Mobile 5 and later professional and standard devices. It’s available for purchase for $14.95 at http://spbsoftwarehouse.com and there’s a free 15-day trial available for those interested.

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Zed announces acquisition of Mobitween

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

We’ve just been notified that MobiTween, the leading developer and publisher of flash based games have been acquired by Zed, the leading mobile content firm globally, w.r.t revenue and geographical presence.

MobiTween has been working with the world’s leading mobile operators, handset manufacturers, media companies and third party developers - developing and publishing mobile games using the Adobe Flash technology. The company brings 3 years of expertise to Zed, which has successfully established itself in 53 countries including some of Europe’s largest markets. Having the credit of being the leading mobile VAS player in terms of revenue and geographical coverage, Zed partners with 130 wireless carriers across the globe. Recently, in June, the company appointed Pedro Saudo as its new CMO.

CEO and founder of Zed group, Javier Perez, says:

This acquisition signals a very important milestone within our worldwide games strategy as Zed is committed to consolidating a global leadership position as developer, publisher and retailer of multiplatform games.

With this acquisition, Zed can now offer innovative solutions to build gaming portals offering the best gaming experience to the end consumers.

Congratulations Zed. Let’s hope they win even more fronts with this acquisition.

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Mobile content finally slips from operators’ grasp

Monday, March 24th, 2008

It looks like carriers have finally lost the battle to keep control of consumers mobile content - according to ABI Research the average consumer gets their content from a mix of places, including the web, their mobile operator and from their own collections.

Of mobile users who watched video on their mobile, the split was fairly even between using websites like YouTube, their own carrier’s video offering and sideloading the content themselves. With music sideloading was the most popular option, with 48 percent of mobile-music listening respondents ripping content from a CD or other music source, while over one third of music-listening respondents purchased music through their operator. Pre-loaded content meanwhile, put in a strong showing, with around 60 percent of mobile gamers only playing the games that came with the phone.

So it’s not all bad news for operators - sure, they’ve missed the boat on some areas, but others are still firmly in their grip. Add to that there’s still a lot of money to be made off data delivery, not to mention ad-supported content, and it’s not such a grey picture after all.

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