Telefonica O2 have announced their 2008 year-end results – a selected summary below (in a word, they are VERY good), and then a link to the full PR: Telefónica Europe met its 2008 financial targets at the top end of guidance Total customer base up 9% to 46 million Best selling device iPhone tops 1…
O2 cracks the 1m barrier with the iPhone!
O2 have announced they have sold a total of 1m iPhones! Well iNever! 🙂 Those surely are some good numbers – from memory, O2 have about 20m subs, so that would suggest with some basic stats that approx. 5% have had, or do have, an iPhone! Funny, it seems like more to me, I see…
EA Mobile revenue rises by 23%
Yay, a small sliver of good news in what is largely financial losses and job losses at the moment… EA Mobile have managed to increase revenue by 23% in it’s Q3 which ended Dec 31 2008, resulting in a figure of $48m. Apparently Mobile accounted for 7% of revenues across all platforms. Whilst this area…
Com2US: Trapped: Undead Infection
Com2uS has announced a new game for the iPhone/iPod Touch, called “Trapped: Undead Infection”. In case you couldn’t guess, it’s a horror-based adventure game, and surprisingly enough, will make extensive use of the touchscreen (well that is a shocker!). There’s going to be a ton of cool GFX (graphics) as you play a scientist in…
SEGA to release 2010 Winter Olympics video game
So SEGA have jumped right in with the ISM (licensee of the International Olympic Committee), to become the exclusive video game publisher for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada – this seems to be a trend for SEGA now! In simple terms – you name a gaming platform, and SEGA are going to…
Mobile game likely to come from new Tron film!
Oooooh yes, it’s a cult classic, and it’s now being re-imagined (sequelled, no less) as new film – with probably Mobile (+other platforms) games due with it – enter “Tr2n”! Tr2n is due to be released by Disney in 2011 – for Tron-heads (if that’s what they call them), it’s going to be big news!…
Vodafone to target being number one again in UK
According to Mobile Today, Vodafone has made catching O2 it’s number one priority! For those of you that are less familiar with the UK Mobile Operator scene, it’s a fairly lively one – with 5 actual Network owner operators, and then a number of MVNOs, the battle for pricing, devices, and service is always quite…
UK: New Orange Wendesday Adverts
If you (a) live in the UK, (b) watch TV, and (c) remember adverts, then you might well have seen the new Orange Wednesdays adverts – yep? – well they apparently cost £7m! Orange Wednesdays are a 2-for-1 cinema tickets offer (only on, shockingly, Wednesdays!) for Orange subs in the UK – and something that…
THQ Wireless cuts 100 jobs
In a continuing wave of redundancies in pretty much most industries, THQ Wireless has let 100 people go in it’s Wireless division. That actually equals about 75% of the workforce 🙁 This follows earlier news that the THQ parent entity was getting rid of studio staff, and cancelling a number of titles that were in…
Vodafone Portugal testing HSPA+ 64QAM
More HSPA news…. this time with Vodafone Portugal. Using something called HSPA+ 64QAM technology, testing has been carried out to see what data rates are possible, in a real-world environment, compared to the theoretical max. of 21.6Mbps (yes, you did read that right!). The actual speed attained was about 16Mbps per second, and would be…