According to yesterday’s rumors, the presentation of the fourth smartphone from the Samsung GALAXY S line was to take place in February as part of the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2013) conference and exhibition. This report by The Korea Times was refuted today.

According to official data, Microsoft has signed an agreement with Research in Motion (RIM) on the use of the exFAT file system in mobile devices.

Sony announced today that the PlayStation Mobile Store will launch on October 3. Users of Japan, USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Australia will be the first to test it in practice.

The era of the Japanese console games industry is coming to an end. There are fewer and fewer developers in this market who create successful projects,” says Yoshiki Okamoto, founder of Game Republic. Everyone goes into mobile development. 

Facebook is testing a new mobile advertising system that allows social network advertisers to place banners in third-party applications.

According to the Danish company Distimo, the forecast of analysts from Gartner, according to which free downloads in 2012 will account for “only” 89% of all installations, overestimates the user’s love for paid programs.

Ludei, a company specializing in creating HTML5 application development tools, announced the release of the Ludei Cloud Compiler public beta.

The Japanese giant of the social mobile games industry GREE has made another step in the development of Western markets. The company acquired a studio from San Francisco – App Ant Studios.

The new project of the Finnish team threatens to become the most original development in its history. Rovio this time decided not to “wisely” copy the achievements of other studios, but to create a completely original game mechanics.

Igor Matsanyuk and Alexander Vashchenko, ex-heads of the gaming division Mail.ru , we have registered a company Narr8, which will write book series for tablets. 

Yesterday it was exactly one year since DragonVale has been sitting in the top ten American iPhone games at the box office. What is its secret, the British from PocketGamer decided to figure out.

Despite numerous problems, Zynga continues to buy up assets of interest to it. This time, the “victim” was the California studio A Bit Lucky, which released two sims on Facebook: Lucky Train and Lucky Space. 

On the eve of the launch of the new platform, on October 23, the Windows 8 Summit partner conference will be held in Moscow, aimed at business audiences, entrepreneurs, startups and professional developers.

Apparently, the announcement of the next, already the fourth smartphone from the top line of Samsung GALAXY S will take place at the end of February next year. 

The author of the comic book “Spider-Man” is developing a mobile game about saving the Earth from an alien threat.

On the eve of the release of Windows 8, Microsoft has announced competitions for application developers. The best applications will be demonstrated by Steve Ballmer at one of the major Microsoft conferences.

Flash GAMM Kyiv 2012, a conference on the development of mobile, social and, of course, flash games, will be held in Kiev from December 8-9. 6waves, Adobe, Marmelade, Unity and many others have already announced their participation in it. 

By the official release of Windows 8, which will be available on both PCs and tablets, there will be about 3,000 programs in its app store. 

Last Friday it became known that Nokia’s Lumia 920 and Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2 will appear on U.S. shelves on the same day – October 21. According to Examiner journalists, these gadgets may well compete with Apple’s creation.