The runaway success of an iPhone game created by two brothers on a laptop is pressuring video- game makers Square Enix Holdings Co. and Capcom Co. to reboot their strategies and appeal to mainstream players.

Flexion wrapper to enable users to Try & Buy pre-loaded content on ALCATEL handsets London, June 10th 2010 : Accumulate's Flexion wrapper has won another global deal and will be used to allow subscribers to Try & Buy pre-loaded content across the range of ALCATEL mobile phones from TCT Mobile. TCT Mobile will launch the Flexion wrapper in its first ALCATEL Android handset, the OT-980. By ...

Investors saw a gold mine in Internet addresses reserved for websites designed to be viewed on cellphones. But advances in technology have made them obsolete. Rick Schwartz made his fortune the new-fashioned way, raking in millions of dollars buying and flipping domain names such as Candy.com, which he sold for $3 million.

Windows Mobile is a distant also-ran in the smartphone market, accounting for less than 20% of smartphones in use in the States and less than 10% worldwide.

Software firm metaio has developed a first person augmented reality game for Nokias OVI store.

Today's Bing-on-the-iPhone news means that Microsoft's chances in the mobile search game have improved--if only a little bit. Microsoft - IPhone - Apple - Bing - Smartphones

David "DC" Collier, 44, from Britain, could not speak a word of Japanese when he first came here seven years ago. Not only has Collier, president of mobile phone game company Pikkle, become conversant in Japanese, but he conducted e-mail correspondence with The Japan Times in Japanese and reads game-related blogs in Japanese. He credits his ability to owning a company.