Wow. Russell Beattie has given up blogging (for now). I thought… Is it April 1st? No. Why did he do this when he has recently spent so much effort updating the ‘look’ of his site? Only a few days ago, he added a subscribe by email facility -what was the point? He once posted how much […]

The worldwide mobile phone market showed continued strength in the first quarter of 2006 with total shipments of 226.7 million units, representing 26.0% growth over the same quarter in 2005, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.

"Much of the worldwide growth has been attributed to developing markets, which have not only seen an influx […]

Do you program for J2ME? Need something to ease the differences between all the devices? The team behind J2ME Device DB project,  which currently supports 385 device profiles, has released the first version of Microcode - a multi-device development and deployment framework working under Windows.
Microcode features:

integrated powerful preprocessor Filepp

device properties from j2me-device-db project (over 300 […]

According To Ipsos insight’s latest The Face of the Web Study, mobile phones are poised to overtake The PC as the dominate Internet platform in some markets.
"Globally, just over one-fourth (28%) of mobile phone owners worldwide have browsed the Internet on a wireless handset, up slightly from 25% at the end 2004. Interestingly, growth in […]

According to new research by Compete Inc., a handset’s operating system is more important than camera, bluetooth, music or email capabilities. Furthermore, people are willing to pay more for a specific handset operating system.
Compete Inc. say…
"As consumers spend more time navigating menus and installing content and programs on their mobile phones, they have become more […]

My new Series 60 3rd Edition freeware has been very popular. In just a few days I have received many similar questions from developers. It’s obvious there is currently a lot of confusion over signing of Symbian applications and 3rd Edition development. Here are just a few answers…
Q) How is the application signed?A) The application […]

In David Wood’s latest Insight 7, he argues that mobile operating systems are not commodities. There’s lots of interesting stuff about how mobile Linux is incomplete, fragmented, closed and playing catch up. (Also see my related links below which have previously covered some of these topics).
There was one small part I didn’t totally agree with…
"In contrast, both […]