Archive for March, 2007

Java’s not worth building in?

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

There has been much Internet discussion, for example on Javalobby about Steve Jobs comments on Java ME .
"Java’s not worth building in [to the phone]" and"It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain."
Many people have taken this to be an attack on Java ME. However, I see it a bit differently. You have to put this into […]

March MoMo London

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

It was an interesting demo evening at London Momo London last night. I came away thinking that the ideas that were most likely to succeed (Monilink from Monitise and Oystar) leverage existing non-mobile services (the UK Link ATM network and London Oyster card) with which consumers are already familiar.
Getting consumer buy in is always difficult […]

Why Open C ?

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

I have been wondering why Nokia has been putting so much effort into Open C. More specifically, Nokia has gone to great lengths to extend Symbian’s PIPS and publicise it to developers. These thoughts came about after several people emailed asking me what I thought was the reason for PIPS and Open C other than to allow […]

Symbian DevCerts and Validity Periods

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

If you are working in the Symbian device-creation community you may be interested to know I now have a version of SExplorer that has been built (but not signed) with AllFiles capability. The idea is that if you are working on another project that requires an AllFiles devcert then this can also be used with […]