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One of the most neglected aspects of mobile game development is localization, and localization can be costly, ranging in price dramatically depending on how much text or dialogue there is in a game. In his latest column for FierceDeveloper, David Marino, the CFO and co-founder of Hidden Variable Studios, discusses the benefits that localization for specific markets can bring to mobile gaming and application developers in general. Chief among them is that localization helps reinforce the impression that the game or app was carefully crafted and tailored for each market, rather than simply “mass-produced” for worldwide consumption. Additionally, it allows the game or app to build credibility by demonstrating that developers care about the customs and sensitivities of other cultures. Commentary

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Full news stories today included wireless and app-propriate gifts for Mother’s Day, Motorola XPRT, HTC Bliss and Sony Xperia Play security.

Here’s the news that is too short to report:

Motorola Headquarters in Libertyville in Pursuit of Investments - Motorola Mobility, Inc. (MMI) corporate headquarters will remain located in Libertyville, Illinois.  The state is providing a business investment package to leverage private investment and to help keep approximately 3,000 jobs in Illinois.

Meffy Deadline Extended to Tuesday, May 10 - There is very little time left to submit your entries for the eighth annual Meffys Awards.  Judged by leading journalists, analysts and VCs, the Meffys span the entire mobile content & commerce spectrum, from games and apps to technology innovation and ad campaigns.

Windows Phone Market Reopens for Business – Windows Phone Marketplace was closed for technical problems on Thursday and is now reopened for downloading.

Samsung Infuse Doesn’t Lock Out Non-Market Apps – Samsung announced yesterday that the Galaxy S: Samsung Infuse 4G will have a May 15 release date, has a new feature not seen previously on AT&T Android smartphones, and you can load non-Android Market apps.

Spring 2011 Tablet Season In Japan – Wireless Watch Japan reported that spring is busting out all over with tablets from Apple, Motorola, Sony and Toshiba in Japan.

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Google’s Android OS is now a dominant player in the mobile space. A recent Gartner Research report stated that they believe Android will come close to being the worldwide mobile OS leader by 2014. However, when it comes to apps, Apple is still king with over 300,000, followed by the Android Market around the 100,000 [...]

Related posts:

1. Content Ratings coming to all Android apps
2. Apple: “more than two billion apps have been downloaded… more than 85,000 apps available”
3. Android Market to hit 100,000 app milestone this month

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We like Toronto-based Polar Mobile. They are one of the few Canadian companies that are truly succeeding in the global app market. Today date they have created successful apps such as The Hockey News, Time, NHLPA, Food Network, Toronto Maple Leafs and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Last week Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty stopped by their headquarters for [...]

Related posts:

1. Polar Mobile apps cross the 1-million user mark
2. Polar Mobile named in Canada’s “50 Most Engaged Workplaces”
3. Polar Mobile introduces “MINT” for BlackBerry Smartphones

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Apple announced their Q4 earning and dominated with record results. CEO Steve Jobs hopped on the earnings call and decided to vent his opinions about RIM, Google, their AppStore. We recorded the audio cast and Jobs stated: “We’ve now passed RIM. And I don’t see them catching up with us in the foreseeable future. They [...]

Related posts:

1. App Store reaches over 100,000 approved apps
2. Google “hopes to make an announcement next week” about Android Market paid apps
3. Apple: “more than two billion apps have been downloaded… more than 85,000 apps available”

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iPhone apps for profit?

Do you want to develop the next “big thing” in the iPhone world? That would be the next app… The apps you see in the apple iPhone commercials were made by someone, many people with no computer programming experience at all. So why not you! Why can’t you make that BIG MONEY?

THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT

The past few years has witnessed a change in the ecosystem of the wireless world.
Time was that cell phone companies were responsible for selling games and applications to their customers.
These apps were programmer in the java language using J2RE. Not only were these apps hard to develop, they were also severly limited due to several different factors:

- compatability with multiple phones
- limited hardware
- small screen size

When apple launched the iPhone in 2007 and the AppStore a year later, the world of mobile development forever changed.

A GAME CHANGER

The AppStore is an integrated distribution system for developers to sell applications on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It is pre-installed on all of these devices and is dead easy to use.

Since it’s launch in 2008, in only a year and a half over TWO BILLION APPS have been downloaded from the AppStore and the numbers keep increasing day by day!

And it will only GET BIGGER with the iPad coming in the next few months!

THE APPLE METHOD

Ultimately apple makes it relatively simple to become an app developer. You need to join the apple developer program and program your apps.

You need three things:

1. An idea
2. An annual subscription to Apples development program
3. A computer to program your app on (Windows or Mac will do)

After you write and code your app, submit it to Apple for approval and wait to get listed on the Appstore and the money to start to come in.

BUT I’M NO COMPUTER PROGRAMMER!!

Fear not because I’m about to tell you the secret of how anyone can learn to write and sell an app on the AppStore.
It makes it NEARLY GUARANTEED that you will be able to

A. Make BIG $$$
B. Start on a real career as an app programmer.

Who knows, maybe you will be the next big thing! Most downloaded apps do make a profit.
Even selling an app for a dollar and making .50 profit after your comission still NETS YOU 00.00!

HOW TO GET STARTED:

If this sounds good to you, and you found this article useful, then you need to check out the secret so many app developers know but don’t share…

I know it can be done and you don’t need to be a computer genius either!

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How to reinstall apps on iPhone when the AppStore tells you an app already exists, and it doesn’t.

Is iTunes acting up?
Does your iPhones AppStore tell you that an app is installed when it isn’t?

There is a solution for that:

The iPhone is not perfect and sometimes these strange things happen.
Try the following to straighten your phone out:

Sometimes when you sync your phone apps are installed by iTunes on your computer. To see if fabecook is already installed:

First, press the home button twice. The first time sill bring you to the first home screen, the second time brings up search. Type the first few letter of the app you are looking for. Do you see what you are looking for? Great, it’s already Installed.

If not try:

1. Restart the phone.
Hold down the top button you usualy turn the screen off with and the front button on the face at the same time for about ten seconds until th phone restarts and you see an apple logo appear

try and see if the phone let’s you Install your app now

2. Connect the phone to your computer. Open iTunes and on the main screen where you can manage you iPhone see under “applications” and make sure the box is not checked for the the app you want to install. Check this box and click sync below. iTunes will install the app for you.

Hope this solves your problem!

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Update: And just like that, Google says its fix is in place and developers are seeing their apps again. Huzzah! [Google]

Original: Apps have been disappearing from the Android Market for a good many of you (and us) for a few days now, and you’ve been screaming for answers. And we hear you. And, believe it or not, Google’s heard you, too. Here’s what Google told us about the problem:

"We are aware of an app visibility issue with certain recent devices. We believe it to be a device configuration problem and are working on a workaround."

We know, we know. You guys and gals won’t be happy until the apps are back in the Market like they should be. But remember that there are thousands and thousands and thousands of you using the Android Market, and we don’t wan things to get worse. (But that said, let’s get this fixed, Google, m’kay?)

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Qik Video, launched a new version on the new Sprint HTC EVO 4G with video chat. They have also updated their Android app to include Video Mail and My Videos. Qik video was first launched to stream video from mobile phones to the web where it can be shared with friends and others.

For Video Chat from the Qik app on the HTC EVO 4G, select the person from your phone address book and that’s it! If the person you are inviting has the Qik app on their phone, their phone rings and with a single click both of you are video chatting away. If the other person does not have the Qik app on their phone, they’ll receive an SMS with a link to watch the video live on their mobile browser.

You can toggle between the front and back camera within the same session. Every video is also automatically archived as a private video on your Qik account so now all your conversations are available at your finger tips.

If the person you are sending to is a Qik user – they’ll see the
message in their inbox and their activity feed. If they are not a Qik
user, they’ll receive an SMS with a link to the video mail.

Qik video camera allows all users to record, share and go live. This
enables users to record, share and go live to your favorite social
networks (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Myspace), video sites (e.g. YouTube,
Livestream, Brightcove, VMIX), blogs (e.g. Blogger, WordPress, TypePad,
Tumblr, Posterous) Click the big “Record” button in the main screen to
get into this mode. Then once you are in the viewfinder – click the big
red button to start streaming live to video sites.

The  updated version of Qik in the Android Market for all the non-Sprint HTC EVO 4G users  new features include Video Mail and My Videos. For now, you’ll need to get the Sprint HTC EVO 4G to take advantage of Video Chat

Launch offer for the new Qik Video!

For all the Qikkers on Android, experience all the features for free till July 15 after which the various Premium options will be available for a subscription of .99 / month.

Qik Features BASIC FREE

• Unlimited Qik-to-Qik video chat.
• Unlimited Live streaming to the web.
• Unlimited Live sharing to Social Networks (e.g. Facebook, Twitter,
  Myspace).
• Unlimited Live sharing to Video sites (e.g. YouTube, Livestream)
  and blogs (e.g. Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous).
• Qik-in-Touch Desktop App
• Video quality-Up to 640×480 (Standard).
• Video access settings
  -Public, private (Standard)

Premium Features

• Higher than 640×480 Video-  (Premium)
• Video archiving-Unlimited (Premium)
• Unlimited automatic downloads to computer (COMING SOON, Premium)
• Snap photos while recording videos (COMING SOON, Premium)
• Video access settings-Public, private, group (Premium)
• Upload and share videos recorded with the native phone camera app (Premium)
• Priority Support (Premium)

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Verizon is showing continued support for Android an’ Droid smartphones which are very popular.  So popular you may have to week a few weeks before getting your HTC Droid Incredible.

Tomorrow Verizon is expected launch V CAST for Droid
Incredible, Droid
Eris, Droid,
Moto
Devour, and LG
Ally.

They often pick and pull Android Apps they think Verizon customers will like.  Here are their most recent picks.

• Qik Video 2.0 allows customers to record and
  share video with friends and family via their favorite social networks,
  including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
• Twitter, the official Android app, allows customers
  to tweet; send direct messages; share photos, videos and links; search;
  and more.
• Mint.com Personal Finance is the top financial
  management app. Customers can view all of their accounts in one place,
  set budgets, track their spending and find personalized savings.

In other realms of Android an’ Droid apps they suggest:

• Mediafly Video + Audio Podcasts offers
  high-quality
  video streams of popular channels, including NBC and ESPN, and gives
  customers a way to organize and discover their podcasts and audio, video
  and radio streams.
• TuneWiki Social Media Player
  shows subtitled lyrics
  as customers listen to music, watch music videos or stream songs.
• Dropbox
  allows customers to create a Dropbox folder
  on their Android devices, which they can sync to their computers to
  browse and share files.

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