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Misc Notes - Issue 4
2008-05-05 20:04:00
It took longer than the “usual” two weeks (sorry, I’ve been busy switching a job), but this is the fourth issue of Misc Notes . Misc Notes is my short, informal bi-weekly collection of news and links related to the mobile gambling market and development. If you see or hear anything worthwhile, feel free to send ...
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AdMob Mobile Metrics (March 2008)
2008-04-20 19:02:00
The March edition of AdMob Mobile Metrics is downloadable free here. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d20').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
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Misc Notes - Issue 3
2008-03-30 20:05:00
This is the third issue of Misc Notes . Misc Notes is my short, informal bi-weekly collection of news and links related to the mobile gambling market and development. If you see or hear anything worthwhile, feel free to send me tips by e-mail! Let’s start with a video which was uploaded to Youtube some time ago. ...
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AdMob Mobile Metrics (February 2008)
2008-03-19 07:20:00
The latest version of AdMob Mobile Metrics is available for download here. As always, it contains useful data for optimizing the limited handset porting resources. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d18').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
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Misc Notes - Issue 2
2008-03-17 18:36:00
This is the second issue of Misc Notes . Misc Notes is my short, informal bi-weekly collection of news and links related to the mobile gambling market and development. If you see or hear anything worthwhile, feel free to send me tips by e-mail! A press release received from Reuters reports that Probability plc has raised money ...
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Tanla Mobile Marketing And Advertising Guide
2008-03-10 20:08:00
Tanla Mobile has just published their mobile marketing and advertising guide. You can download the guide here for free. The guide is 128 pages and contains some interesting statistics (e.g. SMS marketing response rates in various countries which help you benchmark your campaigns). Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d16').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
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Misc Notes - Issue 1
2008-03-01 00:22:00
This is the first issue of Misc Notes . Misc Notes is my short, informal bi-weekly collection of news and links related to the mobile gambling market and development. The folks at Lady Luck’s mobile casino have revamped their website. They have also added a new section called “Arcade” which contains two new games. Below you’ll see ...
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The Netsize Guide 2008 Is Here
2008-02-15 09:12:00
The Netsize Guide 2008 is available for download for free. Gambling is not mentioned in the document, but there is a lot of information about mobile gaming in general. This is a must read for anyone interested in statistics and trends in the mobile market. Bookmark It Hide Sites

Targeting Your Handset Porting Efforts
2008-02-12 19:51:00
Anyone who says that guessing which handsets are worth supporting for is easy, is lying. We have to live with the fact that the R&D budgets are limited and there simply isn’t enough money to port the games to all the handsets. One must make decisions and it is hard when there is not enough ...
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Mobile Game Usability and Design Guidelines
2008-02-11 17:46:00
Me and my colleague had a long conversation about mobile game design some time ago. It all started when I was sitting in a bar and cursing some mobile gambling game which had very inconsistent menus and behaved very irrationally after someone had tried to call me while I was playing a game. We started browsing ...
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Mobile World Congress 2008 Preview
2008-02-10 22:01:00
Mobile World Congress 2008 is about to start in Barcelona. This year I unfortunately can’t participate. The past years have been rough for the feet and back but I have always enjoyed this event. In my opinion this exhibition has never been an ideal place to exhibit mobile gambling products and it seems that almost everybody ...
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Thanks For All The Emails
2008-02-02 17:14:00
I have not advertised this fairly new blog and I wasn’t even sure if there are any readers out there, but during the past couple of days I have received several emails both thanking me and suggesting topics to write about. Thank you! I will reply to everyone personally. Just keep sending me more email about ...
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International Casino Exhibition 2008 Report
2008-01-30 17:49:00
I am back from lovely London where I attended International Casino Exhibition (ICE) 2008 and its sister events ICEi (remote gaming) and ATEI (amusement technology). As always, it was a blast! Just like in previous years, there were thousands of casino and amusement machines in several halls. All were playable for free. Naturally I was like ...
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Practicing What I Have Preached
2008-01-27 02:14:00
Over the years I have had the pleasure to work with many companies and one of the first things I have told them (especially the ones in the mobile industry) is that they need to set up mobile friendly browsing sites. There are so many people like me who spend daily a lot of time ...

And Now for Something Completely Different
2008-01-18 17:26:00
I have decided that this blog is not for ranting. I am not about to do it now, but I sure would love to. The biggest newspaper in Finland , Helsingin Sanomat, reported on this Wednesday: “The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is planning to introduce an amendment to the law on gambling that would enable ...

I?ll Bet You Think I?m Betting on Mobile Gambling?
2008-01-16 07:41:00
…and yes, you are absolutely correct! Hi, I am Markus Aurala, your host and a novice blogger. I started this blog to write about my adventures in the world of mobile gambling. That world fascinates me a lot. I was involved in it for some time and I’ve witnessed how it started shaping up from the dust ...
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