Apple has released an update for the iOS mobile operating system to version 6.0.1 and a beta version of iOS 6.1.

The company’s internal studio yesterday released Air Patriots, Amazon’s first mobile project developed immediately for Kindle, Android and iOS. 

The search giant has demonstrated the impact of holidays on the number of search queries and advertising clicks on mobile devices. 

Crowned with laurels, the Finnish Rovio team, together with fellow countrymen from Nokia, is preparing another replenishment of the Angry Birds franchise called Angry Birds Roost (“Roost of Angry Birds”) exclusively for the Lumia line of smartphones based on Windows Phone.

In September, the price of a loyal iPhone user in the United States fell to the level of May 2011, as for the number of downloads, it remained almost at the level of August. 

There was a rumor that the presentation of the new flagship smartphone model from the Korean company Samsung is already scheduled for the beginning of next year.

A study of the mobile audience conducted by Flurry showed that older users prefer tablets to smartphones, the main activity of “tablets” falls at nine in the evening, and also that they play on them much more than on “smart tubes”. 

The first snow has fallen – we can assume that winter has come. This means that the coolest mobile gaming conference Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference will take place soon.

The German studio Wooga yesterday announced the release of its very popular Facebook game Bubble Island on the iOS platform.

The number of iPhone users intending to purchase a smartphone of the same brand in the future has decreased for the first time since 2007, according to Strategy Analytics. 

Strategy Analytics has published a report on the analysis of the smartphone market for the third quarter of this year. According to the data obtained, the combined supply of market-leading Apple and Samsung occupy more than half of the global smartphone market.

Last night there was a large-scale malfunction of iCloud, during which a warning hung on the official Apple website to users about the impossibility of using any iCloud services other than Mail and iChat.

The indie team of industry veteran Peter Molyneux 22Cans has announced that the release of its experimental mobile game Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube for iOS and Android will take place on November 7 at 0:22 Pacific time.

Yesterday Microsoft released a full working version of the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 for creating applications for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.5.

Last week, Casual Connect Kyiv 2012 was held in Kiev. Surely you have already got acquainted with our series of interviews dedicated to this event. Today we offer some notes about the event itself.

Big Fish and Betable have announced that their joint project, the mobile gambling game for real money Big Fish Casino UK, has finally launched in the UK App Store for iOS.

ComTech analysts analyzed smartphone sales figures on the global market for the third quarter of this year and came to the conclusion that Android is losing the American market.

In the last days of autumn, St. Petersburg will host a major international forum Mobile VAS Conference dedicated to mobile technologies and applications. The forum participants include Creative Mobile, AppAnnie and Xyologic.

Mobile and social games will become a priority for the gaming division of the George Lucas company, which is now owned by the Disney Corporation.