The tablet market is storming, despite Apple’s unconditional leadership. Among the leading vendors, there is a fierce struggle for second place in the market for the supply of devices. Kindle Fire starts to lose, Samsung goes up. 

Applications developed on HTML5 work up to ten times slower even on the most advanced smartphones than on laptops, according to Spaceport experts in their new study.

The company has released a multiplatform commercial version of its engine with a long history – GameMaker: Studio. The company’s first major client was the popular German publisher HandyGames. 

The most popular free game on the iPhone for the second week in a row is the puzzle 100 Floors. On the iPad, the first place went to the unusual social game Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grade & Friends. In terms of growth rates, the Dragon Story game was ahead of everyone.  

The start of sales of the new flagship of the Korean company Samsung in Russia is scheduled for June 5 at 19.00 pm. This was officially announced yesterday by the vendor himself.

According to figures published by Microsoft, its mobile platform has not only caught up in popularity, but also left behind Apple’s operating system in the People’s Republic of China. MTS claims that the share of WP in Russia is greater than that of iOS.

The other day, the Finnish studio, famous for games about angry birds, not only announced a new project under the Angry Birds brand, but also announced that it will be released on mobile platforms this summer – June 18. 

Distimo has shared data on exactly how many downloads are needed to get into the top 25 of the best paid and free apps for the American version of the Apple App Store. 

The new iPad, according to the Kommersant newspaper, will arrive in Russian retail on May 25. The price for a “white” tablet will be about 25 thousand rubles for the “youngest” model with Wi-fi and 16 GB. 

A third of social network users access Vkontakte from mobile devices.

The tenth anniversary conference of computer game developers – KRI 2012 opened in Moscow today. Part of the conference reports is devoted to the development of mobile applications. 

Angry Birds Space and Draw Something are leaving both the American top ten most profitable games for iPhone and iPad; Minecraft: Pocket Edition turns out to be one of the most profitable apps of the week; The Sims FreePlay is gaining popularity again after the update; Rage of Bahamut has been leading the top grossing Android apps for a month.

Apple allowed one of the studios to accept pre-orders for the game intended for distribution on the App Store, and also supported it on the Kickstarter service. As a result, three months in the top 10 highest–grossing apps in one of the categories of the American App Store.  

Nielsen briefly described how much the mobile software market in the United States has changed over the past year, sharing a curious infographic. 

Today, the Flash GAMM Moscow 2012 conference dedicated to the development of flash, social and mobile games opened in Moscow at the Cosmos Hotel at 10.00.

Android holds a dominant position in the mobile systems market thanks to Samsung’s good sales; Windows Phone has doubled its share in the American and European markets in a year.  

Staircase3 has found out which smartphone is the most popular among Android devices, on which devices it is best to test your own applications, and also why the fragmentation of the “green” platform is growing from year to year. 

Thanks to the GREE report for the third fiscal quarter (the company has it in January-March 2012), it became clear what amounts a developer can count on whose games fall into the top-grossing iOS applications. 

At the top of the free iPhone games chart is the 100 Floors puzzle. On the iPad, the situation is different: the Highway Rider racing runner is the most popular. As for the growth rate, Ice Rage hockey is out of competition among free iOS games.