Tim Cook: 500M iOS devices sold to date, 10 iOS devices sold per second in Q1

Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company has sold half a billion iOS devices to date and “sold 10 iOS devices per second” last quarter, he said today during Apple’s quarterly earnings conference call.

Opera Ice may finally help Opera make a dent on iOS, Android

Next up from the web browser maker Opera: A new browser that aims to take full advantage of mobile and give the company a significant foothold on iOS and Android.

This 22-day-old open-source Minecraft-cloning game builder runs in Javascript in your browser

Max Ogden has built a tool for creating Minecraft-like 3D games, all within a browser using JavaScript and OpenGL.

Balrogs! Kabam can’t keep No. 11 top-grossing iOS game The Hobbit live tonight

The superpopular Tolkien take-off The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth is apparently too popular.

66% of phone, tablet owners don’t really care if they run iOS, Android, or Windows

Watch out Apple and Google: Two-thirds of smartphone and tablet owners don't have strong brand loyalty to any one particular operating system, according to a new study by Accenture.

Google Play will hit a million apps in June (probably sooner than the iOS app store)

Google actually caught up with Apple in October -- or got close enough that the distinction became academic -- with 700,000 apps.

Old phones and new users are key reasons Apple topped 53% U.S. smartphone market share

Sure, the iPhone 5 is a big part of Apple's jump from 35.8 percent market share in the previous quarter, but it's not the only part.

Android Jelly Bean finally reaches 10% penetration (6 months after launch)

Google has released five major Android updates since 2010, most named for something sweet. Today, Android's developer site revealed that for the first time, more than 10 percent of Android smartphones in the market are running Jelly Bean, the latest version.

Dragon Runner is a space-based indie game that’s as deep and accessible as Mario

Dragon Runner could be the next great "one-runner" -- as deep and accessible as Mario, only you fight dragons in space.

Red Robot Labs gets off to good start with Life is Magic location-based game

The second major location-based game from Red Robot Labs is off to a good start.

Record-breaking Christmas week: 50M iOS and Android devices activated, 1.76B apps downloaded

After a record-breaking 17.4 million iOS and Android devices were activated on Christmas Day, the following week saw record-breaking activity as well: over 50 million iOS and Android-powered smartphones and tablets, and a staggering 1.76 billion mobile app downloads.

Report: User acquisition costs for iOS shot up 30% last month

The cost of acquiring loyal users for iPhone and iPad apps shot up by almost a third last month as marketers started the big Christmas season push.

Microsoft launches first game for iPhone, iPad with Xbox Achievements

In an extension of the Xbox gaming ecosystem to iOS, Microsoft game studio You vs the Internet has launched Wordament, the first-ever game for iOS with Xbox Achievements, on the Apple app store.

Jordan Mechner’s Karateka remake returns to Apple (iOS) devices today

The developer's classic martial arts title wanders the Earth to iPhone and iPad.

Mochi Media says 86 percent of Flash game developers are expanding into mobile (exclusive)

Still, 63 percent of mobile developers create for the web first to get the bugs out and gauge market interest.