San Franciso - August 25, 2008 - IQ212 Games today announced the release of Redneck Fishin’ for mobile. In the woods, the suburbs, or the city, Redneck Fishin’ allows players to fish for trout, bass and more using dynamite for bait. Read more »

iFund is an investment fund created by KPCB (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) to invest in iPhone oriented start-ups. It has a US$100 Million pool and has already invested in 5 companies: Whrrl (whose parent company is Pelago), iControl, Gogii, Ngmoco and another unnamed (yet) company.

While Whrrl is a location-based service and iControl is a remote-monitoring one, Gogii and Ngmoco are gaming companies about to launch this fall.

Gogii Games was started by George Donovan, after selling his previous company  Infiknowledge Inc. to Traffix Inc. Gogii received $5 Million from KPCB and is concentrating on casual games that will be both online and based on social networks, targeting the iPhone primarily.

Ngmoco is a company created by KPCB by bringing a few former EA seniors together. Bing Gordon, formerly chief creative officer of EA, is on the board and Neil Young (no, not THAT one…) is the CEO. Neil was on the team of games such as Sims 2 and the up-coming Spore. Also, Bing Gordon is on the board of Zynga as well, a company KPCB also invested in and which concentrated on making a games network which is cross-social-networks. Thus, it is likely the new compnay is going to play a role in facebook/myspace/etc, as well as on the iPhone.

According to the NYT, iFund investments range from $100K to $15 million, and KPCB already invested between $5M to $8M in these companies.

It would be interesting to see how things will go for these companies and how different will they be.

Zeemote JS1 Controller Will Integrate With Nokia N-Gage Games and S60 Applications

BEDFORD, MA, Aug 20, 2008 — Zeemote(TM), Inc. , the makers of intelligent wireless controllers for mobile devices, today announced that Nokia will be the first organization to launch its Zeemote Zeekey(TM) application. This new application enables the Zeemote JS1 Controller to work with N-Gage games and other S60 applications. The Zeemote Zeekey application will come pre-loaded on featured handsets as special gaming bundles and is also available for download on the Nokia website. Read more »

This is a dedicated forum for the developer community to immerse itself in all aspects of creating consumer and business applications for the BlackBerry platform. You’ll get:

• An overview of the latest technical advances in software, hardware and tools from RIM and its partners to enable highly connected, interactive mobile applications and content services
• Proven insight from fellow developers who share their first-hand experiences in successfully creating, integrating and managing wireless applications
• Shared best practices from industry leaders to shortcut development cycles and drive new applications to market

View the list of sessions.

Santa Clara, CA., USA

Event Website: http://www.blackberrydeveloperconference.com

Mobile Internet World showcases the mobile Internet technologies and business trends paving the way to the future delivered by the innovative pioneers of today. Attended by all the major leading companies and industry experts, it’s the best place to learn directly from the application developers, service providers, device manufacturers, content providers and entrepreneurs behind the future of the mobile Internet in a relaxed and fun environment.

Boston, MA, USA

Event site: http://www.mobilenetx.com

Mobile entertainment provider partners with Trixcell to introduce mobile magic content category around the globe

LOS ANGELES, Calif. / BERLIN, Germany, 21 August 2008 – Jamba, a leading global provider of mobile content and entertainment, also known as Jamster in some countries, today announced a global partnership with Trixcell, the first company to introduce the concept of mobile magic. With exclusive deals in more than 201 countries, Jamba is the first to offer Trixcell’s innovative magic applications as part of its diverse mobile entertainment catalog. Read more »

Mumbai, India and Chicago, USA – August 20, 2008 – Reliance Big Entertainment today announces the launch of Jump Games USA and the opening of a new U.S. headquarters based in Chicago. Jump Games, a leading publisher and developer of games across mobile platforms, is aggressively looking to acquire top mobile content licenses and brands for distribution on its mobile worldwide network. Read more »

Tuesday through Thursday (26-28 August) Adobe will be offering a free Flash Cast training course for anyone interested in learning how to develop Flash Cast channels for Verizon Wireless Dashboard service. The training will be held here at Adobe’s San Francisco office and Emily Kim will be the instructor. You can register here.

Since Flash Cast is partially based on Flash Lite 1.1 Adobe is also offering a one day Flash Lite 1.1 training course on Monday the 25th August if you don’t have any mobile Flash development experience. If you’re familiar with Flash Lite development then it’s not necessary for you to attend this training.

via Bill Perry

Pasi Manninen decided to test KunerLite plugins and report to the community. Kuneri have done 11 nice plugins to extend Flash Lite applications and Pasi went out to test some of them.
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