Gartner continue their strange habit of including connected and unconnected devices in their latest PDA sales analysis. They also classify the Nokia E61 as a PDA rather than a smartphone.
However, it’s interesting (and surprising) that Windows CE sales are up 38.8% and Symbian down 5.9% - especially since that the E61 has been so popular.
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Nokia have just announced Open C which is based on Symbian PIPS. Tommi at s60.com thinks "this could be a big thing".
Without PIPS and Open C, Symbian OS already has some support for POSIX in that it provides an implementation of the C Standard Library (STDLIB). I have previously ported large complex multi-threaded Linux code to […]

Last night’s London Mobile Monday was themed ‘Mobile Search’. Speakers were Nic Newman from the BBC, Martin Wilson form Yell, Steve Ives from Taptu and Claudia Poepperl from Mobile People.
Here’s some of what I took away from the meeting…

The BBC considers that their mobile web site traffic is small given the effort they have put […]

The Telegraph is reporting that Europe’s biggest telecoms groups are aiming to create a mobile phone search engine that could challenge Yahoo! and Google, the US giants.
"…mobile industry believes it can retain a greater share of advertising revenues by developing its own service."
If this comes to fruition I suspect the implementation will fall far short of […]

Informa’s latest report concludes that the mobile web heralds a new age…
"…the introduction of a whole host of new players into the value chain presents new opportunities for growth in the mobile content and services market, whilst simultaneously posing a threat to mobile operators who face losing control of the billing relationship with their customers"
While I think things […]