A few days ago, I came across tiggdo.com, a new free way of creating your own personalized WAP pages/RRS feeds that you can continue to add and edit. The author, Sanj of JAR Developments told me…
"I had initially thought about creating the platform using J2ME, but having built numerous midlets and experiencing the painful porting […]

Yesterday, I talked about $16 BOM phones. Well, today I came across UK retailers that are literally giving away phones INCLUDING free voice and sms usage. How?
Well, it seems that if you are organised enough to apply for refunds at the right time, over the course of your contract and you cancel at the end […]

I recently wrote about how Symbian is trying to reduce the bill of materials (BOM) of phones based on the Symbian OS. I commented how they may be chasing a moving target as all phone categories/ OS types reduce their bill of materials.
In the Ultra Low Cost Handset segment (ULCH) Silicon Laboratories have now produced […]

Do you program Java ME (formerly J2ME)? If so, you might like to know about a free J2ME emulator  that you can embed into your web pages.
 
To use mPowerPlayer start with the URL…
http://webstart.mpowerplayer.com/
.. append your URL and .jnlpto and that’s it!
For example,
http://ota.mpowers.net/piranha/pna-us.jadbecomes http://webstart.mpowerplayer.com/ota.mpowers.net/piranha/pna-us.jad.jnlp

Last week, Nokia released a beta version of Python for Series 60 3rd Edition. The final 1.4.0 release will be out some time in the second half of 2006. The first thing of note is that bug fixes and new features for pre-3rd edition are on hold while work goes on to get the 3rd […]

This month’s London Mobile Monday took on a different format. It was sponsored by 3i and centred on funding with a prize of £1000 for the ‘best’ idea. Five companies of vastly varying maturity, described their (mobile related) ideas to a panel of VCs.
Zzizzl films won with their Handango-esque scheme to distribute independent short […]

There’s an entertaining piece by The Diffusion Group at DigitalTrends.com. As the piece says, "The "proof is in the pudding", and the first course has yet to be served".
Meanwhile, Microsoft have already served two puddings that not many people have wanted and Symbian have already served a moderately successful two course pudding.
I think all […]