WildTangent has announced an expansion of its partnership with Sony Mobile that will see games added to the Sony Select discovery app on certain Xperia smartphones.

The two companies have an existing partnership that dates back to 2011, and the WildTangent service already comes preinstalled on certain Vaio PCs and Sony tablets.

The new arrangement will see WildTangent’s offering – which enables users to rent or buy games from its curated selection – integrated with Sony’s own discovery app. Read more
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Nimbuzz, an Instant Messaging application, has announced the opening up of its Messenger API with launch of Chat Buddy Developer Program (CBDP). This initiative is expected to help brands, publishers, and independent developers get access to the 90 million Nimbuzz users from across 200+ countries. The CBDP allows developers to build chat buddies across various verticals such as Cricket, astrology, shopping, games, news, besides utilities such as ticketing, movie reviews, classifieds, etc.Read more
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Sony and games distributor Wild Tangent have teamed up to launch what they are calling a new gaming app store for Xperia phones

Some WildTangent games come pre-installed on Sony laptops and the like, but this would create more of an app store, with thousands of games to choose from, curated from various developers and publishers. We’re told it would be ‘realistic’ to compare it to the Google Play or App store, though without quite such a hefty back catalogue. Read more
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Speculations regarding Nokia selling off its mobile handset division have been doing the rounds for the last couple of years. Nokia on its part has always denied these rumours as it marched on to launch its much-awaited Windows-based smartphones.

However, this has not helped in putting an end to all the speculations. Tristan Louis writes in Forbes that Nokia is likely to exit from mobile handset business in 2013. Tristan Louis is the founder of Keepskor, a multi-channel platform for user generated games, and a respected voice in the industry. In his note he also adds that it is likely that either Huawei or Microsoft could be the potential buyers for Nokia’s handset business.Read more
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There are so many Android smartphones on the market such as the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the HTC One, but if you have lack of pennies in the bank and only can afford a certain amount then top handsets are out of the question unless you get them on contract. We do not normally like phones that sort of copy top names like HTC and Samsung but seeing as it is getting near to opening presents we would like you to take a look at the ThL W1 cost effective Android phone for Christmas.

The ThL W1 is on sale right now via Chinavasion for only £118.11, if you buy more than 3 it will cost £108.19 and the more you buy the cheaper each handset gets. The Branded ThL W1 runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and provides a nice 1GHz Dual Core CPU and 1GB, this is not what you call a very bad Android phone because it has some good features considering the price. The 4.3-inch qHD screen with a 960×540 resolution is not bad for watching movies or playing games on.Read more
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he Samsung Galaxy S III Mini is the new compact version of the Samsung Galaxy S III. Featuring a large 4.0″ display, the S III Mini is great for viewing more content on one screen, reducing the need for scrolling and zooming out. Its HD Super AMOLED technology also means that videos and pictures come to life in amazingly clear, crisp colours.

This elegant but minimal smartphone comes with a fast 1GHz dual core processor that allows apps and games to load quickly, enabling people to enjoy seamless browsing, gaming, viewing and downloading. Perfect for budding Instagrammers, the Samsung Galaxy S III Mini delivers great images using a 5 megapixel camera, which also has Best Shot mode that takes a burst of photos and then cleverly selects the best one.

Sylvia Chind, Head of Devices at Three, said, “Not only is the Samsung Galaxy S III Mini a top performing phone but it’s also full of innovative touches like the notification light, which can be customised to flash a different colour to alert users to new messages or calls.”Read more
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With 4G technology, the new Apple iPhone 5 is just as fast as the fastest Android phone, but results of Consumer Reports’ latest tests show there are still plenty of differences.

In a recent TV commercial, Samsung makes fun of Apple fans, claiming that Android phones have had better features and capabilities than the iPhone 5 for ages.

Back in the labs, Consumer Reports put all the phones through their paces, assessing each one’s features and options.

First on the comparison block is display. Everyone wants a big screen to watch movies, play games and use apps. While the iPhone 5′s 4-inch screen is Apple’s biggest yet, it can’t compare with the screens on many Android phones.Read more
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Consumer Reports has just finished testing the iPhone 5.

With 4G, it’s now as fast as the fastest Android phones, but there are still plenty of differences.

Back in the labs, Consumer Reports puts all the phones through their paces, assessing each one’s features and options.

Display

Everyone wants a big screen to watch movies, play games, and use apps.

While the iPhone 5′s four-inch screen is Apple’s biggest yet, it can’t compare with the screens on many Android phones.Read more
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Fans of the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone who prefer the classic black color over the Pebble Blue and Marble White launch colors or the Garnet Red available to AT&T subscribers may have hope.

The black-colored Samsung Galaxy S III has been spotted on the Carphone Warehouse’s internal stocking database along with the blue and white colors. Carphone Warehouse is a large phone retailer in the UK on which the launch colors of Samsung’s flagship device for 2012 have been spotted prior to the launch. Thus, it carries some credibility. On the other hand, there is some chance of course that it can be a hoax or an error since Samsung has neither confirmed nor denied the rumor. However, to add fuel to the Carphone Warehouse database rumor, photos of a black Samsung Galaxy S III have been found on the Samsung Mobile Facebook page as part of their Olympics Games 2012 promotion. Read more
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Suddenly, the conventional wisdom that social and mobile gaming was all about keeping it short and simple looks all wrong. The lasting money may be in making complex, difficult, and exciting games that take a long time to play.

On Wednesday, Zynga reported a dramatic second-quarter loss, marked by a severe drop in players for hit casual games like FarmVille and a 10 percent drop from a year ago on daily average revenue booked per user.

The point of Farmville, and other Zynga games like CityVille, was how unchallenging they are: You plow some digital ground, you sow some digital seeds, you reap some digital vegetation. You tell everybody you know on Facebook about it. Rinse, repeat. It was, at least for a time, nearly addictive to millions of people.Read more
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