Vodafone has just reported a massive £14.9 Billion loss together with planned staff cuts.
Why is this when handset sales are actually at an all time high and projected to go higher? Why is this when the latest handsets can do much more and have the potential to encourage people to use more services and hence […]

There’s a thought provoking article at The Register on how Motorola think developers should be turning to mobile to capture the large market. The reality is probably somewhat different. Fragmentation of Java (i.e. differences in implementation) across mobile devices is currently the largest barrier to taking advantage of this lucrative market.
However, one comment made me think…
"So one of […]

IBM have a great document available for free download: Primetime for Mobile Television.
The document covers all the issues, some of which will be very familiar to mobile developers who don’t work in Mobile TV. For example, there’s the difficult issue of resolving the business model across too many parties.

In fact, it’s worth looking at all […]

Nokia have released the source code for S60 WebKit.  This is a super-set of the source already available at opensource.nokia.com.
This new release is provided in a way such that developers can extend or contribute to the S60 WebKit project. There’s even a ‘Reindeer’ reference browser UI that can be used to create derivatives of the […]

Most mobile development occurs under either Symbian OS, Windows Mobile or Java ME. However, there also a few opportunities to work with proprietary operating systems. Up until recently, there was very little information on how proprietary technologies worked. However, more and more information is becoming public domain.
For example, Motorola have recently created opensource.motorola.com where you can find kernel […]

Wavemetrix have a report based on two polls into US carriers and Mobile TV. The US carrier poll demonstrates how the user experience extends to network quality and customer service which consumers see as much more important than the services being offered.

The Mobile TV poll results are also worth a read.

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Bucking the trend for closed linux based phones, SavaJe have released a new Jasper phone and partner program allowing developers to create custom user interfaces…
"The Jasper S20 is the first Java powered mobile phone to support an early access version of JSR-209 specifications, providing Java Platform Micro Edition application developers with the ability to create advanced user […]