ScreenDigest are reporting that …
"A conflict between French mobile operators and broadcasters led to a major delay in the launch of DVB-H services in France. The business model to adopt is at the centre of the argument."
Many of the large and small projects I have worked on have seemed to hit problems when it has […]

Wireless Labs PowerBoot S60 freeware became available over the last few days. It’s an application that allows the user to specify which applications start on boot. It’s especially interesting because it allows the user to start other 3rd party applications - something that would usually require those applications to pass Symbian Signed testing.
The previous thinking was that applications […]

I just learnt via the MoMo London newsgroup that FirstPartner have a great new Widget Market Map available free of charge.

While you are there, check out their other useful Market Maps on UK Mobile Marketing, European MVNOs, Guide to VOIP, Web 2.0 Communities and the Skype Ecosystem. 

Today’s survey from Canalys highlights the fact that consumers are excited by the prospect of having GPS on their phone…
"62% agreed or agreed strongly with the statement that it would be useful to have satellite navigation built into their phone, with even higher levels among existing navigation system owners and regular business drivers."
In my opinion, current […]

Yesterday’s Mobile Monday London was all about widgets. Several concepts were covered that I hadn’t previously thought about…

The prospect of Ad funded widgets.

S60 widgets within the idle screen. This won’t be possible. Instead they will run from shortcuts on the idle screen. I suspect (but don’t actually know) this has something to do with inter-process platform […]

There’s an interesting post from Paul on the Nokia Forum blogs saying…
"F-Secure are now apparently flagging two Symbian signed applications as Spyware in their mobile security application"
I did some research and it turns out to be FlexiSpy. In my opinion it’s not really Spyware in as much as it’s not an application masquerading as something else nor […]

Michael Gartenberg at Jupiter Research asks the interesting question why Nokia is licensing S60 to third parties (currently LG and Samsung). He says…
"Licensing to folks you compete with doesn’t work, either your licensees do better than you do, (in which case often the license revenues don’t make up the shortfall) or you do better than […]