Posts By Anders
Nearly 50% of the 5 million mobile gamblers across the UK gamble exclusively on their mobile phones, according to Colin Burrows at last week’s Mobile Gaming and Gambling Summit. 2.2 million people in the UK access mobile gambling sites purely on their smartphones, having never used a betting shop or even their desktop to place a bet.
Using a location based social network and online street map, a new app designed in Helsinki has been developed for blind people that can tell them where they are and how to get back on the road in case they get lost.
Nokia, the Finnish mobile brand that has been dominant in the technological field for just under a decade, has been bought out by Microsoft for £4.6bn.
An increasing amount of British workers aren’t taking advantage of their holiday days due to the pressures of work and various financial strains. Fortune Frenzy is giving away a £1,500 holiday fund so its players have the chance to treat themselves before the summer ends.
Fortune Frenzy has announced the launch of yet another high quality, HD slot called Mayan Moolah, taking their sum of mobile games to a total of twenty.
Nomophobia reportedly affects more than half of the UK, defined by a fear of losing signal, running out of battery or an owner’s mobile not being in sight.
Facebook will be testing a brand new mobile payment app that allows users to make purchases on third party sites using their login information.
For the first time in mobile history, smart phone sales have exceeded feature phone sales with the highest growth rates being seen in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia, according to research firm Gartner.
A new smart phone game that gets players to sift through vast amounts of Cancer Research data for fun aims to discover new treatments and ultimately cures for different cancer types.
Labour MP and gambling critic Chuka Umunna has accepted a £20,000 donation from gambling giant Coral, it has been reported. Umunna has publicly spoken out against the number of betting shops in the UK, and has recently been reported to have accepted a donation from a member of the Gala Coral Group, one of Britain’s biggest bookmakers.
