Just when we talked about Myriad Group’s plans to bring Android to cars, we have another news item relating to their Alien Dalvik technology. MIPS Technologies — which is a provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications — entered into a license agreement with Myriad to make their…
Blammo Games to develop two games for Glu Mobile in the next 12 months
Glu Mobile announced a multi-title partnership with Blammo Games, founded by the game industry veteran Christopher Locke, who most recently built and ran the studio responsible for freemium top ten grossing iOS titles Smurfs’ Village and Zombie Cafe. Moreover, he also served as external producer on another popular game – Lil’ Pirates. As part of…
UK: The Carphone Warehouse to pre-load HipLogic’s *Spark XL on select Android devices
HipLogic is teaming-up with The Carphone Warehouse in a deal that will see the mobile phone retailer pre-installing *Spark XL on select Android smartphones and tablets it sells — though we don’t know which models this will include. In addition, the popular real-time homescreen app will be available via The Carphone Warehouse’s Walk Out Working…
Glu Mobile to make mobile games based on the work of best-selling author James Frey
In what seems as a strange partnership, Glu Mobile is teaming-up with Full Fathom Five, the publishing company of best-selling author James Frey, for a “groundbreaking transmedia collaboration.” As part of the deal, James Frey and Full Fathom Five will work closely with Glu on the creation of a minimum of four original story ideas…
EA Acquires Flight Control and Real Racing Developer Firemint
If you own an iOS, Android, or WP7 device, then Firemint is a name you should know by now as their games, Flight Control and Real Racing, are some of the most popular titles on each platform. EA has announced today they have purchased Firemint for an undisclosed amount. Firemint will be placed into EA’s…
RIM Acquires Tungle.me Calendar App
RIM has just added another company to the BlackBerry family: Tungle.me. These guys do a simple productivity app lets users offer a variety of meeting time slots that invitees can pick from on a web-based calendar. It looks like RIM is gearing to upgrade the functionality in their native productivity apps, seeing as not long…
China Mobile, SK Telecom forge an R&D deal
China Mobile and SK Telecom (SKT) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly develop technologies focusing on next-generation networks, device platforms, machine to machine (M2M) services and the apps market. According to a statement from SKT, the two companies will commit resources to jointly research the “advancement of low cost, high efficiency next…
Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom working on further mobile tie-ups in Europe?
After successfully merging their mobile units in the UK to create the leading operator in the country, Everything Everywhere, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom are reportedly looking at similar deals in Europe. In an interview to German daily Handelsblatt, Deutsche Telekom spokesperson said: “We’re looking at every country, [including] Romania and Austria,” while also adding:…
SouthernLINC, Sprint ink nationwide iDEN data roaming deal
SouthernLINC Wireless has inked a nationwide iDEN push-to-talk and data roaming deal with Sprint Nextel, despite Sprint’s plan to start shutting down the network in 2013. According to SouthernLINC’s CEO Bob Dawson, the service will go live in April along with new simplified rate plans. Dawson said that Sprint’s decision to shut down its iDEN…
Ericsson, Vantrix team-up on mobile video optimization
In an effort to help mobile operators cope with the upcoming demand for video services, Ericsson is teaming-up with Vantrix, the global leader of mobile video optimization and delivery solutions. Under the deal, Ericsson will be bundling Vantrix Bandwidth Optimizer with its Multiservice Proxy mobile broadband traffic optimization solution. The mentioned solution optimizes video and…