Motally have announced that they will be releasing an analytics package for Android, iPhone and Blackberry which is geared towards the mobile gaming market.  Game Analytics, as it has been imaginatively named,will allow games developers to track the in-game behaviour of their customers as they play, allowing them to see, among other things, where gamers are spending the most time and  where they’re dropping out, allowing them to adjust their game accordingly.
Motally Game Analytics includes:

Game Level – Find out what level your players are reaching. Use this info to optimize …

Opera have announced that a beta version of the Opera Mini 5 browser has now been released to the Android Market.  Opera Mini 5 uses Opera’s compression tech, which redirects webpage requests through the company’s servers where they are compressed to reduce their size, before they are sent back to your mobile.  The idea being that pages load quicker, although there are compromises in that images are also compressed.
Some of the features of Opera Mini 5 include- tabbed browsing, a download manager and “Speed Dial”, which is essentially just a …

Derek Brown and Dany Tijerina of computer security firm TippingPoint, have managed to convince just under 8000 smartphone users to download and install an app called WeatherFist, which, as you’d expect, is a weather forecast app.  But, it’s not just giving it’s users weather forecasts, it’s also been uploading their GPS coordinates and telephone numbers to a TippingPoint server.
The app was put together as a proof of concept botnet as part of a presentation at last week’s RSA Conference.  Brown and Tijerina claim that it would be a simple matter …

Mobile games developers Polarbit today released a statement that their Android games have surpassed 1 million downloads from the Android Market. Polarbit are the team behind some very popular 3D games such as Raging Thunder and Armageddon Squadron.
Click the link for the full press release.

The latest release of the Android Native Development Kit is now available for download, as announced on Google Android Developers blog yesterday. The most interesting addition is Open GL ES 2.0 support. Open GL ES 2.0 will offer Android phones (only those running Android 2.0 or later unfortunately) much improved 3D graphics – an area in which Android has previously been found wanting when compared to the likes of the iPhone 3GS.

Following on from Gamevil’s recent announcement that an Android version of Zenonia will be released later this month, we thought we’d take the opportunity to find out a little bit more about the company and their plans for their Android titles. Gamevil have a few Android games on the market already, including the very popular Baseball Superstars. Kyu Lee, President of Gamevil USA, kindly agreed to answer a few of our questions.
Click the link to see the full interview.