Vodafone Betavine was launched today…
"…a place where developers, students and early adoptors can meet as peers to work together on new concepts and technologies in the mobile and Internet communications space."
The site has been created by Vodafone R&D. I can only assume that Vodafone hope to use the site to help identify new ideas that […]

One problem with Symbian OS mobile development is that it’s often difficult to get started. There’s no shortage of documentation but it tends to be incomplete, distributed over many places and covers previous OS versions which can be confusing.
Documentation tends to be created by technical authors who haven’t really used the tools for real […]

LiMo Foundation is (yet another) new mobile Linux initiative… 

"Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone established the LiMo Foundation to develop the Foundation Platform, a Linux-based, open mobile communication device software platform.
A world-class Linux-based platform aims to provide key benefits for the mobile industry including lower development costs, increased […]

Wireless Developer Forum 2006 presentations have recently been posted on the Symbian Wiki. The Symbian Signed presentation shows some statistics for numbers of applications that have been Symbian signed. There have been 14000 SIS files signed since up to December 2006. 3700 of these were content rather than applications. The 30 companies that are self-certifiers (e.g. IBM, […]

Michael Mace has an interesting post on The shape of the smartphone and mobile data markets.
Michael says that there is an incorrect assumption that mobile data is for everyone. He says the market is actually segmented into those that do (35%) and don’t (65%) want added value services.
I am not so sure the situation […]

There’s a thought provoking set of Nokia videos at YouTube.
"View of the Future. Nokia has released a number of short videos that explore how mobile phone design may change in the next three or four years. There is a video for each of the four categories, or put more simply different lifestyle, that Nokia focuses […]

It was a very interesting MoMo London this month. The theme was ‘Bubble 2.0′ asking whether we are entering a large investment cycle that will burst. A panel of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and analysts gave their views on the current investment market. In the spirit of Mobile Monday, panelists were keen to stress that they […]