Dean Bubley talks about extended mobile presence…
"In theory, mobile phones ought to be good platforms for presence information - both rudimentary connection details (online, offline, idle etc) and some personalised state or emotional content as well ("Dean is currently thinking about lunch" and so on).
But at the same time, I think the mobile presence industry […]

The Register reports from Google I/O that Android will offer an i-Phone-like App Store.
The more interesting part of the report is at the end - after all, how will such an app store determine what applications are compatible with what phones?…
"They can add to it. They can remove from it. They make it their […]

Nokia has just published the results of the Mobile Rules! developer competition. if you want to read about some of the latest ideas in mobile, visit the Mobile Rules! web site, download the PDF or view the slides on SlideShare.
While on the topic of competition winners, Silicon Alley Insider has a list of winners of […]

Penrillian have a new newsletter covering Android. It concludes that Android will probably increase rather than decrease fragmentation for developers.
In order to become the de facto standard, Open Handset Alliance OEMs will have to ship a substantial number of phones. Currently, most handset sales are driven by what’s available from the network operators. If […]

Earlier this month I commented on how I perceived Windows Mobile is growing, based on the number of development enquiries I have been receiving. I guessed this was because of better 3G Windows Mobile devices and greater uptake by network operators.
Last November, while reviewing the Skypephone that 3 sent me, I commented on the rise […]

It’s fascinating that there have been 1788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge . I wonder how many of these are already mobile developers or are PC/Mac/server developers attempting mobile applications. If they are predominantly Windows Mobile, Java ME and Symbian developers then these platforms may have seen less development in the last few months.
It’s […]

If you are interested in Google’s Android, the BBC has just posted an interesting video interview with Andy Rubin, Google’s director of mobile platforms. It shows Android on a 3G device running at 300MHz on a Qualcomm MSM 7200 - the same processor used by the latest HTC (Windows Mobile) Touch devices.
 
Darren Waters […]