More EA games for N-Gage

EA Mobile has issued a global release schedule for the Nokia N-Gage, furthering its support for the platform, reports Marketwatch.

Titles which will be available in time for the holiday season include FIFA 09, Spore Origins and Monopoly. Need For Speed Undercover, Tiger Woods PGA tour and The Sims 3 will be available in 2009.

Peter Parmenter, director of worldwide OEM at EA Mobile, said: "We're committed to exploring methods to make the experience of finding, buying and playing mobile games easier and more compelling and N-Gage gives us an ecosystem to bring to market some of EA's most popular franchises.”

Motorola is planning another round of layoffs in the mobile division as the group struggles to reduce the range of supported platforms, states The Register.

The cuts will see Android and Windows Mobile emerge as the smartphone platforms of choice, and the internally-developed P2K as the choice for embedded devices.

The company's previous strategy saw it supporting a huge range of platforms which lead to inconsistencies in functionality and interface.

Volantis Systems has released version 5.1 of Volantis Mobility Server (VMS) Professional Edition, says Marketwatch.

VMS 5.1 includes integrated connectors; Picasa, a Google application for sharing photos; a Flickr connector for the inclusion of photos in mobile mash-ups; and a Google Docs connector which enables the inclusion of documents in mash-ups.

This latest version will also include optimisations for the iPhone.