- Hands-On Mobile
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Established in 2001, Hands-On Mobile is a wireless entertainment company.
The company develops, publishes and distributes mobile content via network operators and portals. It offers its content in or via Java ME, BREW, SMS, MMS, and WAP in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Czech, Chinese and Korean.
Hands-On Mobile is a private company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has further offices in San Diego, London and Manchester (UK), Krakow (Poland), Madrid (Spain), Paris (France), Munich (Germany), Beijing and Shanghai (China), and Sao Paulo (Brazil).
Hands-On Mobile's investors include eFund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, General Catalyst Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Contents
Senior officers
- Judy Wade, CEO
Partners
Notable customers
AT&T, Sprint/Nextel, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Alltel, US Cellular, Bell Mobility,
Notable Media partners
Activision, Billboard, CBS, NASCAR, NBA, and World Poker Tour.
Published applications
- 3-in-1 Sudoku Garden
- Amazing Spider-Man Webslinger
- Astrology Zone
- Astrology Zone Premier
- Barry Bonds Home Run History
- Benchwarmer Personalization
- Billboard Mobile
- Blade Trinity
- California Games
- California Sexy Exposed
- California Sexy Poker
- Call of Duty
- Call of Duty 2
- Call of Duty 3
- CBS Baseball 2005
- CBS Baseball Game Center
- CBS Basketball Game Center
- CBS Fantasy Baseball Companion
- CBS Fantasy Football Companion
- CBS Football Game Center
- CBS SportsLine Mobile
- CBS Track and Field
- Chip's Challenge
- Connect 4
- Connect 4 Challenge
- Crystal Quest
- Darkest Fear: Grim Oak’s Hospital
- Ducati Extreme
- Duckshot
- Elektra: Assassin
- EPYX Summer Games
- EPYX Winter Games
- Fantastic 4
- Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
- Fieldrunners
- Flirting by Blind Date
- Ghost Rider
- Guitar Hero III Mobile
- Gumball 3000
- IHRA Drag Racing
- IHRA Drag Racing 2
- Impossible Mission
- The Incredible Hulk
- The Incredible Hulk: Rampage
- Iron Man
- IQ Academy
- LEGO Bricks
- LEGO Brick Breaker
- LEGO Racers
- LEGO World Soccer
- Marching Martians
- Marvel Personalization
- Milton Bradley Operation
- Milton Bradley Game Pack
- Monopoly Tycoon
- Monopoly Tycoon 2007
- NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile
- NBA 2 Go
- NCAA Football
- NFL Fantasy Companion
- Popeye Kart Racing
- Pro Bowling
- Pro Bowling 2
- Scratch City Pool
- Star Trek Nemesis
- Sudoku Garden
- The Elder Scrolls Travels Stormhold
- The Italian Job
- Thunder From Down Under Personalization
- Top Gun: Air Combat
- Top Gun: Air Combat II
- Top Gun 3: Gulf Crisis
- True Crime: New York City
- True Crime: Streets of LA
- Ultimate Spider-Man
- Universal Monsters
- Vacation Solitaire
- Venus Williams Tour Championship Tennis
- Winter Games
- Woody Woodpecker
- World Poker Tour 7 Card Stud
- World Poker Tour Texas Hold 'Em
- World Poker Tour Texas Hold 'Em 2
- X-Men 2
- X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse
- X-Men 3: Mind Maze
- X-Men 3: The Last Stand
History
Hands-On Mobile was founded by Daniel Kranzler, a wireless industry executive and entrepreneur. Hands-On Mobile grew organically[clarification needed] as well as through business combination[clarification needed] when it acquired several leading mobile entertainment developer and technology companies: nGame Ltd and Blue Beck of the UK, Mobilemode Ltd European operations, FingerTwitch (a U.S. mobile technology company), and two mobile entertainment content development companies in China. In 2008 Hands On sold its Korean operations to EA, and sold its European operations to Connect 2 Media. Then in 2010 Hands On sold its US applications business to GoTV.
External links
References
Categories:- Mobile software
- Mobile phone game companies
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