Interestingly Samsung has Anounced the Samsung Ativ S on the IFA in Berlin! I tought it was reltively sure, that the first Win 8 Phones will come from Nokia - which is now proofed that this was wro [...]

Apple was recently awarded 1 billion USd in damages from a jury in a local patent case against samsung. The jury has determined, that samsung had indeed copied the iPhone and iPad, infringing on se [...]

In this post, I want to write about the bidding system for mobile advertisements. This Bidding System is responsible for the CPC you'll get as a publisher. As you all know, if someone wants to run [...]

I recently had a brilliant idea! ..actually it was a dumb idea but could bring some fun and also brings up some toughts. Why not open your own Apple Store? Nonono, not selling weak devices for the [...]

Google AdMob is a bit of a pain when it comes to finding the best fitting banner to use on all the different screen sizes. That question get worse, when it comes for use on apps/games in landscape [...]

Time for the monthly report again, I know, that some of you already waited for it. This report could be very long, because many things were done, so I will split the report into parts for every mea [...]

Lovely Mr James Francis.. please, stop sending me your hoax 10 times a day - that's ridicolous. I am pretty sure, there are some people out there dumb enough to believe your mail, but they will [...]

Many months ago, I've put up a small app intended for kids, where they can push a button and get a laser blaster sound. Nothing exciting but a bit of funny. In this app, I hve built in an ad banner [...]

The RIAA is a funny institution.. Sure, there is respect for cultural property and it is an important topic - but their arguments are just poor. They are whining all the time about how much people [...]

With this post I will not support piracy - not a bit. But there are some thruths out there which will show up the current process between copyright and piracy from the sight of the payers - yes, the c [...]

Recently in the world of internet kim.com turned into a buzz word somehow. I am sure, you all read about him, the (co)founder of megaupload.com which was involved in some nasty FBI things - no need [...]

It is time for another political/critical post. I recently found a new game made by com2us - they named it Tower Defense - well, that's ok. But they also print a "registered" Sign on it - what t [...]

I am very late with the monthly report and also there was not much happening througghout that month. I was very busy with different other projects, upgrading my working machine and stuff, do some l [...]

I just brought on this topic by some other discussions on some android game developer blogs like droid-blog.net about the Copy Cat Situation. What is a Copy Cat? People tend to flame developers for [...]

Most of the time, you - as an indy developer - will not be able to relay on big institution measuring the player acceptance your game. You may even not know what your exact userbase is. So, we need [...]

With this post I may introduce a new series for developers who start out making games and may face different new situations. Before I start: I am NOT a learned Game Designer, I just design my own g [...]

We all know, that the usual CPCs at admob are around 0.03 ct .. nothing to get excited about and running in circles (yelling) But that night (GMT+0) something was different - there was an unbelieva [...]

More or less accidentaly I've found out today, that there is a new AdMob SDK around which finally has some useful features for me :-) I was always struggling with the different screen sizes and wor [...]

There was some confusion about removing the micro sim card out of the galaxy s3 in the past, and I have to admit, I was also a little bit wrong about it. It is quite easy to remove the sim card as [...]

I recently got some new parts and were just building my new development station. That means also to install everything from scratch to have a clean workspace. After a while I came to installing the [...]