There are some interesting stats in m:metrics latest press release. It shows the most popular mobile web browsing behaviours of Europeans and Americans…

Strangely, none of the top genres above are social networking which I had heard from other sources is becoming popular. The problem with these statistics is it might make people think ‘OK, Sports, so I had better go […]

This week, several things have made me think back to previous projects I have worked on where I have had to port code to Symbian. One thing stands out - if at all possible avoid porting code that’s still unstable and changing significantly. Otherwise, depending how you do it, you will may up doing the porting exercise lots of […]

Over the years, this blog has become more popular than I ever imagined. The log statistics show that the blog is read by several thousand unique readers every day, all over the World.
A growing number of companies and their PR agencies contact me to get a mention. However, I rarely do so unless there is something interesting […]

There are have been some news articles saying Ericsson and Texas Instruments have partnered to allow Ericsson’s 3G modems to be used with TI’s OMAP hardware. For example, infosync have said, under the title "Future smartphones to face fewer delays"…
"Smartphones are bound to ship faster now that Ericsson and Texas Instruments have joined forces."
I think this is […]

Following on from my post yesterday on Open Applications, I came across a news article on The Wall Street Journal that says Google are planning a search engine for mobile content. This shows that Google is not only championing Open Applications but is also attacking network operators from another direction…
"Google’s plans to broker the sale of mobile content like […]

About five years ago I went to a Microsoft mobile developer conference where the presenter from Ovum explained that we were going to enter an era where network operators would fail in their attempt to monetise mobile data. This failure would be due to them trying to work well outside their core competences of providing […]

These days, a large percentage of my work involves applications performing some kind of Internet access. Hence, it’s interesting to see if applications such as these are affecting mobile data revenue.
The latest Informa research shows that nearly one third of mobile data revenue now comes from non-SMS services…
"Global mobile data revenues from services other than SMS exceeded US$10 […]