I was doing some research on mobile related web apps and came across simplespark. I was amazed it lists no less than 140 mobile related web services. I hadn’t heard of some of the services. Many concentrate on email or media access combined with social networking.

I recently came across some very interesting GSM modules while performing a feasibility study. Telit produce a range of GSM modules that allow remote mobile telemetry applications to be created without having to use a consumer phone. Usually, this also requires use of a micro-controller and it all gets a bit more complicated and expensive. […]

There’s a fascinating article at The Register on the history of Psion. Here are some snippets that I found interesting…
"Potter approached Gates with a proposition. Psion would make Windows-based hardware, if Microsoft would license its operating system to Psion for free. Microsoft said it never licenses software for free, so the deal never took place," he […]

I was looking for tools suitable for creating .mobi compliant sites when I came across Ericsson’s new open source Mobile JSF Kit and Mobile Front Controller development solution. They are interesting solutions if you into server side JAVA programming.

If you are creating a .mobi site there is a free mobile site checker and sample files for static sites to […]

Penrillian have recently released a useful .NET application that allows anyone to package up passive content (music, images, ebooks etc) as part of standard UIQ or S60 .sis install.

My sixth tutorial in the ‘UIQ Getting Started’ series has just been published on Sony Ericsson Developer World. This final tutorial covers routes to market. It highlights issues I have encountered when distributing software such as demos, downloads, exposure, distributor commission, refunds, chargebacks, software registration, upgrades, providing support and preventing piracy. On the distribution side it covers distribution via Sony […]

I sometimes wonder why there aren’t any industrial rugged Symbian phones for use in applications such as supply chain and logistics. For example, it was strange to see Palm OS units being used to track people into the Symbian Smartphone show last year.
It’s not as though there isn’t a market. Symbian evolved from Psion which continued […]