Motorola launched their mobile Linux based MOTOMAGX platform today. It will allow development under Java ME, via WebUI Widgets and some time in the near future, native development.

At the moment, being a ‘Strong Ecosystem’ (at the bottom of the above image), is probably a wild claim. The first products based on the MOTOMAGX platform are […]

The theme for last night’s MoMo London was Mobile Digital Identity. Here’s a quick summary…

Companies such as Sun already have some technologies, currently used in enterprise systems, that could be applied to more wide ranging mobile communities. Issues include scalability, interoperability with legacy systems and logging.

Dave Birch from Consult Hyperion explained… when new identity systems […]

One of the headaches of Symbian OS development is that the SDK documentation tends to be poor. Also, it often takes several tens of lines of code to achieve things that can be done with one line of code on other platforms. Fortunately, the coverage and quality of the Symbian Press books (and more recently […]

When doing feasibility studies for companies, sometimes things can’t be done without the Symbian (or Nokia) partner APIs. This is a make or break thing for the smaller companies who can’t commit tens of thousands of Pounds or Euros to partner with Symbian and (or) Nokia to use the more capable partner APIs.
The theory used to […]

People often ask me why there aren’t that many successful Java ME consumer applications that aren’t games. I think this could be for a combination of the following reasons…

It’s not possible to do much with the phone specific features without the application being signed. Also, signing doesn’t currently mean it will work on all phones. It depends […]