Articles Archive for December 2007
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the lawsuit, FalconMobile hopes to get hold of non-paid revenues from
one of the biggest aggregators in the world of mobile games.
Arjan from MobileGamesBlog reports of a message he got from FalconMobile’s CEO, Kirill Shishkin, explaining the move:
“FalconMobile
Inc. company plans to file a suit against the Telcogames company on
grounds of non-payment of the latter for using our copyrights.
Telcogames company, which is the biggest publisher, distributor and
developer of games for mobile phones, protracts the royalty payment
from selling the FamesMobile Inc. games for more than 12 month. Because
of this FalconMobile Inc. company has suffered sufficient financial
losses. One should note that this is far from being the first time when
Telcogames company doesn’t execute payment. The aggregate damage equals
to 100,000 US dollars.”
News Flash »
The mobile entertainment industry is throwing away up to 10% of its
gross revenue due to inconsistent and inaccurate content sales
reporting, according to research from the Mobile Entertainment Forum
(MEF). The findings were unveiled as part of MEF’s
global Content Sales Reporting Initiative.
Confusion apparently now reins across the value chain,
as operators, service providers and content providers all have
different reporting styles. Half of those surveyed said they receive up
to 50 different types of reports. 42 percent said their reports
were not accurate, and blamed lost revenues, wasted resources and
reduced investment in mobile content on poor content reporting.
MEF is working with key industry stakeholders to
create a best practice guidelines for content sales reporting that can
be adopted within the industry. The initiative hopes to address specific
issues around timeliness, relevance, accuracy and consistency of reports.
Symbian »
Forum Nokia released a new code example showing how to use location-based services.
The example demonstrates a use case of asking the GPS location of
another device via SMS and showing its location and distance to it.
