Some research out from Xyologic today on app store download trends in 2011 indicates that while games have remained a popular category across both Apple’s App Store for free apps and the Android Market, they appear far more popular on with iPhone users than they are with Android users when…

It has become something of a meme that young kids take to smartphones and tablets like fish to water. Today sees a development that could foster that idea along with more content for them to consume. Mindshapes, an educational games publisher started in 2010 by five execs with a track…

During the three-day outage last week that affected data services for millions of BlackBerry users, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) executives were focused first on getting services up and running before talking about compensation. Today the company finally came out with its first (and so far, only public) apology in kind: a…

You can almost see the lawyers for Rovio debating whether or not they’d like to use the exploding black bird or the dive-bombing white bird against Lodsys, which has extended its patent claims to a number of gaming companies including the maker of Angry Birds, the most popular mobile game…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: —Lenovo: Two new Android tablets and one based on Windows 7 are hitting the market this summer. (via Lenovo) —T-Mobile: The operator is unveiling new “Value” plans where users can either buy devices or bring their own to the…

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has made another mobile-related acquisition, picking up Firemint, a mobile games developer known for hit iPhone titles like Flight Control and Real Racing. The deal follows the video game developer’s purchase of Angry Birds publisher Chillingo in late October, and it will boost its already fast-growing…

Digital Chocolate, the mobile and social gaming firm started and led by Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) founder Trip Hawkins, has raised $12 million in a fourth round of funding led by Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital, with past investors Sutter Hill Ventures and Bridgescale Partners also participating. The company says that…

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS), which has invested heavily in its digital business through a series of recent acquisitions, including the purchase of mobile publisher Chilingo and social games firm Playfish, says its digital revenues jumped 39 percent to $195 million during its third fiscal quarter. The company says that overall…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q0309	Net Inc. vs Q0309
Electronic Arts	Release		15%	292%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS), which has been investing heavily in its digital business, posted another jump in digital sales for the quarter but its previously fast-growing mobile business reported a small drop-off in sales. Overall, digital revenue increased 25 percent to $161 million. Total mobile revenue was $49 million, compared…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q0209	Net Inc. vs Q0209
Electronic Arts	Release		23%	49%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

—Microsoft’s 2-D barcodes: Microsoft’s Tag product, which uses 2-D barcode technology in marketing campaigns, says 1 billion Tags have been printed in the past four months, bringing the total to 2 billion Tags printed since its its launch in January 2009. Advertisers have crated more than 100,000 Tag accounts, and…

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has confirmed it has purchased Chillingo, a U.K. publisher of Angry Birds and other iPhone and iPad games, reports the LA Times.

Sprint (NYSE: S) unveiled a new service today at CTIA called “Sprint ID,” which bundles packs of applications together around a theme, so that first-time smartphone users don’t have to search tirelessly through the Android Market. But Sprint’s real interest is not only about increasing smartphone adoption, but also about…

The day after Nokia started shipping its flagship N8 smartphone, it released a furry of statistics to make the point that it was making progress in building out its Ovi Store and distributing applications. It said 200,000 people sign up daily for the Ovi Store; downloads have increased to 2.3…

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) continues to expand Kindle’s potential as a dedicated e-reader with some related uses, including games. The latest addition to a very limited game library: Scrabble for Kindle from EA Mobile, available now for $4.99.

Digital Chocolate, the game company started by Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) founder Trip Hawkins, is suing Zynga over the title of Zynga’s hit Facebook game Mafia Wars. Digital Chocolate has its own mobile game called Mafia Wars and wants Zynga to stop using that tile.

If only the rest of Electronic Arts’ businesses could be doing so well ... During the company’s earnings call Monday, executives said that the company’s digital business was “growing very rapidly and (is) profitable” (Executives had said during a call last quarter that digital was in fact now the most…

With sales of traditional video games down, Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) continues to look (so far unsuccessfully) for its digital business to make up the gap. The video game giant said that its digital revenue reached an all-time high of $152 million during its third fiscal quarter, up 30 percent…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q0308	Net Inc. vs Q0308
Electronic Arts	Release		25%	87%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Namco Networks may be known for big mobile hits, like Pac-Man, which has been downloaded to the iPhone 23 million times, but overall it hasn’t relied too heavily on licensing big brands for mobile. Namco said that’s changing. It has hired Chris Lucero, formerly of United Talent Agency, to head…

EA Mobile plans to announce tomorrow at a press event in Montreal that Tetris has been downloaded on to mobile phones 100 million times since 2005. That’s a tremendous number, considering that every single one of those downloads was paid for. EA said it has been building the mobile version…