There’s a recent thought provoking comment by Nick Jones, a Gartner Analyst, entitled ‘Nokia Widgets Will Encourage S60 Mobile Services’.
  Ignoring all the Widget stuff for the moment it’s this paragraph that caught my eye…"Nokia and S60 dominate the consumer smartphone market, shipping over half of all smartphones in 2006 (approximately 40 million units). This dominance […]

I just learnt that Oracle have acquired the intellectual property of AppForge. 
 
"Oracle has acquired the intellectual property assets of AppForge, a company formerly based in Atlanta with a mobile application development and mobile applications platform. Oracle has also hired several former employees of AppForge."
Sadly for existing customers…
"Please note that Oracle’s acquisition of AppForge’s […]

Take a look at the free PMN Dashboard for a great overview of the four major handset manufacturers.
"Keep track of the performance of the four major handset manufacturers from quarter to quarter, tracking metrics such as unit shipments, profit margins and average selling prices."

For example, the above chart shows the year on year Q1 performance - measured as […]

Sonopia is the ‘Do-it-yourself’ MVNO. You may remember I wondered how programmable the phones were and whether it would be possible to create a Sonopia MVNO differentiated by some kind of mobile application.
Sonopia Customer Service previously told me that only BREW was supported. I have since had an email from the VP Engineering at Sonopia. In actual fact, […]

The fourth of my ‘Getting Started’ tutorials has just been published on Sony Ericsson Developer World. It describes how to create your first UIQ application. Learn…

How to use either the UIQ3Wizard or modify existing sample code so as to obtain a skeleton application as close as possible to your needs

How to use the command line […]

The last year has seen some great new Wikis from UIQ, Symbian, Sony Ericsson and Nokia Forum. The only problem is that these great resources have ended up with arbitrary structures and it’s often hard to find information that could be on any of them or even on the older Symbian, UIQ, Sony Ericsson and S60  forums.
However, Google […]

With all the buzz about Mobile Web 2.0 and widgets I have had some thoughts that people should be careful when using AJAX and Javascript.
AJAX works by using XMLHttpRequest to exchange data asynchronously with the web server. This is all well and good. The idea is that the Javascript application exchanges small amounts of data with […]