Only last week, the first, still working screenshots of Mozilla’s mobile OS appeared, and several vendors have already announced their intention to release smartphones running on it. 

Velti has published a monthly report on trends in the mobile advertising market. According to him, the most “mobile-involved” country is Israel, the iPod Touch accounts for more advertising impressions than the iPad, and eCPM (effective price per thousand impressions) in the USA, the number of games increased by 20% in a month. 

This was stated by Russian officials, denying applications the right to be called “intellectual property”, and at the same time loading VAT. 

Google managers seriously underestimated the market potential of the older version of their own tablet. As it became known yesterday, the 16 GB Nexus 7 has already been completely sold out by now. 

Hi, exactly a week ago, the Bnet team, to which I was lucky enough to have a certain relationship, released the Dialogues application for iPhone.On the basis of this application, several hypotheses related to the promotion of applications were tested, to a greater extent in the Russian segment of the AppStore. Actually, the conclusions that were made will be discussed.

The research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners has published the results of its study of iPad user preferences conducted in the period from December 2011 to April 2012.

Vladimir Kolesnikov, an expert in Microsoft software development technologies, answered several questions about the promotion of the Windows Phone platform, the future of mobile games and the principles of their implementation.

The global mobile advertising market Adfonic in its report for the second quarter of this year demonstrated that Android is currently a much more interesting platform for advertising sellers than iOS. 

Cloning in the mobile market has moved to a new level, turning into theft. And, what is especially curious, theft from large PC projects. The Armed Heroes Online scandal may be the first alarm bell. 

Collectible card games on mobile platforms have great potential. At least, this can be judged by the indicators of the main spring-summer blockbuster from the Japanese giant DeNA. 

In less than six months, the number of downloads of StartApp, a tool for additional monetization of Android applications, has almost quadrupled. According to the company of the same name that developed it, six months ago it was 40 million, but now this figure has reached 150 million.

I know from my own experience that the keywords for the layout of the first application are often formed approximately according to this scenario:

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Recently, the cost of attracting new users of mobile applications has increased significantly. Therefore, there is a demand for tools to minimize costs. One of them may be the ApEngage service. Its beta version was recently launched by Apsalar.

We just got the news that 96% of mobile app developers immediately make some of their products multiplatform. Do you agree with this, and if so, which engines would you recommend using?

According to the results of the latest research from Evans Data Corporation, 94% of mobile application developers create at least some of their products immediately multiplatform.

As part of the annual meeting of Microsoft sales partners, Steven Sinofsky, Director of Windows Development, announced the release date of Windows 8. According to him, “this is the biggest event for the company in at least the last 17 years.” The new version of the Windows 8 client operating system will go on retail sale on October 26.

Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA has announced that as part of its development strategy in Western markets, the company has signed a partnership agreement with Hasbro to release mobile games based on the popular Transformers franchise for Europe and the United States.