The Galaxy Note sequel will debut and go on sale on August 29 on the eve of the IFA 2012 exhibition, – reports Reuters with reference to Samsung representatives.

Ex-Nokia employees who founded the company Jolla Mobile are working on a new operating system for smartphones. 

Global smartphone shipments for the second quarter of this year increased by 47% and reached 158.3 million devices (with China’s share of 27%). Moreover, according to the analytical agency Canalys, Android has only strengthened its leadership in this market.

The Finnish developers decided that they were getting too little on their main franchise and added not only 15 new levels to the next update of Angry Birds, but also several IAP tricks that seriously upset the balance of the game. 

The American studio Imangi Studios has announced that the number of downloads of its mobile game Temple Run has exceeded 100 million.

The conversation with Leonid Bugaev, Creative Director of Nordic, took place within the framework of the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference.

In the second quarter of this year, the share of tablet shipments from the total number of computers shipped was 22% (for comparison, in the first quarter of the year, this figure was 19%).

In three days, the number of downloads of a new f2p game for iOS called Bubble Mania has reached the millionth milestone, – the authors of the game from Storm8 report.

Square Enix has officially announced that the classic jRPG Final Fantasy 3, previously released on the Nintendo DS handheld console (2006) and on iOS (2011), will be optimized for the Ouya platform and will be included in its launch line.

Despite the sale of more than 17 million iPads in the last quarter, Apple’s share of the tablet market has declined markedly over the year, according to a new study by the American consulting company Frank N. Magid Associates.

Among the largest game publishers, perhaps, it is Electronic Arts that is most actively and consistently developing the digital and mobile directions. And although the company earned less on the mobile front in the last quarter ended June 30 than in the previous three months, there is a clear general trend towards an increase in revenue in this sector.

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Sega’s management expects that the mobile market will help the company get back on its feet and return to profitability. 

There are 400 thousand apps in the App Store whose rating and downloads are zero. The researchers of the analytical company Adeven insist on this.

Google is changing its payment policy on Android: from now on, there are no third-party payment systems in applications distributed on Google Play.

Google is putting things in order in the official Android app store. The goal is to protect users from unscrupulous applications, spam and intrusive advertising alerts. 

According to Bloomberg, the Russian telecom operator Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS) has officially accused Apple of arrogant attitude towards partners and strict pricing policy.

Max Grinev, the author and developer of the game Contre Jour, which received the title of the best iPad game according to Apple, gave some good advice to indie developers.

According to Fiksu, the number of downloads of iOS apps has started to increase slightly again, but at the same time, the cost of attracting users is growing more rapidly.