Mobile Content Russia

Alawar's Farm Frenzy, developed and published by HeroСraft has been selected for Droid Gamers Android Gaming Challenge. The first in what is hoped to be many similar events worldwide.

As well as providing a free version of Farm Frenzy specifically for the contest, HeroCraft is also sponsoring the event and providing free games as prizes for various levels of winner. The full results will be announced by the end of August.

RIA Novosti has released new iPhone apps in English and French, available for free download at the App Store.

The new apps allow iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users to browse Russian and international news, watch videos, view photos and infographics, download and email favorites.

The apps are easy to use. All content is grouped into sections, such as Politics, Economy, Culture, Sports and International News. News items are displayed as a newswire, and users can easily scroll through the headlines like through any standard iPhone list. The time and date of the latest update also are shown and users can refresh the newswire manually or set it to automatically refresh.

«RIA Novosti wants to be closer to its customers all over the world. First we released an iPhone app that allows users to access the agency’s news in Russian. Now we’re releasing versions in English and French while developing interfaces for new iPhone apps in two more languages. We are planning to expand our presence in the global media market in cooperation with the world’s leading media brands», - says Sergei Lysakov, deputy marketing director at RIA Novosti.

Opera Software today announced that MTS, the largest cellular network operator in Russia and CIS, will now provide a co-branded version of the Opera Mini browser for its subscribers, who will be able to download it on their mobile phones at mini.opera.com. Subscribers of MTS will get access to a customized Opera Mini start page when they download the browser on their mobile phones.

The start page will have default bookmarks which give MTS subscribers quick and easy access to music, videos and games as well as giving users the opportunity to purchase content directly from the browser.

Mobile Content Russia Magazine is pleased to share with its readers the video of Victor Saeijs' presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference. Victor Saeijs is Vice-President Sales Eurasia Nokia. Victor presents the new SDK with Ovi Maps integration for mobile developers and explains why Nokia stepped into mobile internet-based services market.

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Mobile Content Russia Magazine is pleased to share with its readers the video of Ivar van Dijk presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference “Driving scale through bundling: Strategies for delivering mobile entertainment”.

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VimpelCom (which operates under the Beeline trademark) published the rating of content-providers for September 2009. Top-20 is based on total fee paid to companies by VimpelCom for providing services via partner programs (voice, SMS, WAP). Top 5 companies in the rating are Zed Russian (former INFON), A1, i-Free, SMS Online, and IncoreMedia. A new company RM-Invest (SMS-Dostup) appeared in the list.

1. Zed Russia (INFON)
2. A1
3. i-Free
4. SMS Online
5. IncoreMedia
6. Neva Line
7. Plastic Media
8. Next Media Channels (part of Next Media Group)
9. Iricom
10. Inform-Mobil/IMMO

Spb Software announces that the Windows Mobile Classic and Professional (touchscreen) version of its famous developmental game SPB Brain Evolution has received a major update and now reached version 2.0.

SPB Brain Evolution is available since January 2007 and by now has achieved the world's best selling Windows Mobile game status (year 2008). The game allows hundreds of thousands of users worldwide to improve their mental awareness and maintain their newly achieved brain fitness.

HeroРЎraft is proud to announce that the old Symbian versions of all its' games are now completely free to download and play!

This is the moment to show how useful that old smartphone can be. Don't miss this opportunity to try our high-quality games on your old device! Just dust it off, download whatever you like from the games below and enjoy!

The following games are available for free downloading at http://herocraft.com/en/index.php:

i-Free, a leading provider of content services in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, is pleased to note that the market for downloadable mobile content is showing signs of recovery. In July, mobile content sales showed impressive growth for the first time since the crisis struck, and remained high in August, while the mobile content index appeared to be steadily on the grow.

In July, i-Free analysts noted a more than 30% growth in the sales of mobile content downloaded by users from catalogues published by i-Free in the print media. Sales remained equally high through August.

J'son & Partners Consulting presents the key results of conducted research includes analysis of current situation and regions (America, Europe and Asia), a detailed review of mobile the further market development. The research contains the analysis of such mobile VAS as SMS, transfer, mobile commerce, mobile marketing and mobile TV.

Size and structure of Russian mobile VAS market

J'son & Partners Consulting estimates the volume of the mobile VAS market in Russia at 94 bln RUR (3.8 bln USD) in 2008, and at 55 bln RUR ($1.681 bln; at average currency rate 32,71 rubles per 1 US dollar) in the 1st half of 2009.