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.

Gamevil have announced that this month they will be releasing an Android version of their very popular role-playing action game, Zenonia.  Zenonia has sold more than a million copies worldwide across the iPhone, Windows Mobile and BREW platforms.
“We”re extremely happy to bring one of our fastest growing franchises, ZENONIA, to one of the most fastest growing mobile platforms in the world.”, stated Jin Woo, Marketing Director at GAMEVIL. “Through our success of Baseball Superstars on the Android Market, we”ve decided to bring more of our games to Android to satisfy …

A couple of enterprising web engineers called Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman are using an Android phone as a ‘brain’ for a fully mobile robot they have created.  At the moment, it’s nothing more than a cardboard wagon with a phone on top and it doesn’t do very much more than roll around, but it’s creators see a lot of potential in the little fella that they call – “Truckbot”.

Truckbot uses a G1 phone for it’s brain, tying in with the phones on board compass, and later versions will utilize …

You’ll no doubt have heard the news that Google are giving out free Nexus One or Motorola DROID phones to Android developers who have apps with over 5,000 downloads and an average rating over 3.5 stars.  There were initially some concerns that this was a hoax designed to get developers’ personal details which prompted comments and tweets from Google officials which went some way to ease the worries, but there were still a few developers out there who were wary.  Well, Mario from Badlogic Games got in touch yesterday to …

Polarbit have today announced that the highly anticipated sequel to their 3D racing game Raging Thunder has been released today to the Android Market.
We expect this game to be hugely popular if the success of the original is anything to go by.
Click the link to see the official press release.

Vodafone have updated the discussion on their forum pages regarding any updates for their Google branded HTC Magic phones. The possibility of an update is looking more positive now than it was last week. Click the link for more.