Amos Laber, an independent developer from Toronto, shared his thoughts on working on mobile games and porting them to various platforms on his blog. 

It’s already official: Apple has sent out an invitation to the iPad 3 announcement. It will take place on March 7. Along with the announcement, the first image of the future tablet appeared. 

The vice president of Google said that the new version of the platform will not be released in the summer, as previously reported, but this fall. Moreover, it will be released every year. 

Opera has announced the launch of its own payment system within the Opera Mobile Store application store. The first regional partner of the system was the Yandex service.Money.”

The Android platform has come close to iOS in terms of the number of users,” said one of the founders of the search giant. 

Distimo has presented the results of its new study of two mobile application markets: Google Android Market and Amazon Appstore.

The analytical company Azimco has drawn an interesting graph on the number of devices shipped for almost forty years: from 1975 to 2011. 

As always on Mondays, we prepare a small information block on the most interesting events, research, and facts of recent days. In this release: apps in the Android Market are much more expensive than in the App Store and Windows Marketplace; paid flash support has appeared on iOS.

The independent Getjar market with a catalog of 480 thousand applications has launched its own viral currency for Android devices.

Saturday is a rest time. According to the Jewish canons, it is impossible to work on this day at all. We don’t insist. Conversely. We offer you to get acquainted with three wonderful games: Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Pizza Vs. Skeletons and Spice Bandits.

To protect the rights of users, six leading companies in the field of mobile technologies have created a single legal protocol for mobile applications. 

comScore has shared the results of a study of a number of mobile markets. According to its results, in many of them, the level of mobile media use has exceeded the 50% mark. 

The number of downloads from the Android Market in Russia, the UK, Germany and Spain is more than from the Apple App Store. 

Congratulations to all men on the holiday, and in order not to get tired of reading the news on the weekend, we suggest listening to them. In this issue we will tell you about the App Store’s from different countries, let’s do a small overview of the tablet market and say a few words about how Rovio Mobile launches Angry Birds into space.

Apple’s popularity plays into the hands of developers: they receive $12 from each iOS device sold by the company.

MTS, one of the largest Russian telecom operators, and more recently one of the largest retailers, has published data on the Russian smartphone market for the whole of 2011. 

Analysts from Nielsen recently shared detailed information about American smartphone users. 

One of the developers of mobile applications made a small series about how to write code correctly for a promising platform from Microsoft. 

RIM will release a new version of its mobile platform for tablets. It promises support for Android applications and its own email client.