There is a fascinating interview with Arun Sarin, Vodafone chief executive, on the FT site today. It gives an insight into Vodafone thinking. I particularly liked the following part…
"Q: Given the entry of Google and Nokia, all pushing on mobile services, how do you avoid Vodafone becoming a pipe down which others send services?
A: Most […]

There are so many developer competitions on at the moment. As well as the high profile Android Challenge there’s also UIQ’s Open, BT’s Wi-Fi Challenge and Nokia’s Mobile Rules.
One you may not of heard of is the Adobe/Playyoo contest geared towards Flash Lite game developers.

At the recent FOM conference, Matt Millar of Adobe commented that there are now more Nokia S60 users than Mac users. A very recent In-Stat report predicts that "Size and Growth of Smartphone Market Will Exceed Laptop Market for Next Five Years".
However, S60 is a phone and Mac is a PC. It’s not sensible to […]

Oscar Bernabeu of paniccode.com and xatakamovi fame has been enticing Nokia, with bottles of wine, to produce PHP for the S60 mobile web server. The result is PAMP which will be demonstrated and released in Las Vegas in January 2008.
"PAMP stands for Personal Apache, MySQL, PHP, so yes, the full LAMP stack will be made available […]

In my previous post on the Google Handset Alliance I commented that Google have a large amount of work to do and that they have to catch up with Symbian and Microsoft in terms of OS capability, tools and documentation.
Now that the early look SDK has shipped I must say that I under-estimated how much Google […]

Today, I went to the Future of Mobile conference in London. There were presentations by Brian Fling (Blue Flavor), Tony Fish, Luca Passani (AdMob), Andrea Trasatti (dotMobi), Steve Page (Mobile Commerce), Guillaume Peersman (Dialogue), Prashant Agarwal (Refresh Mobile), Daniel Appelquist (Vodafone), Charles McCathieNevile (Opera), Dave Burke (Google), Simon Rockman (Sony Ericsson), Julie Strawson (Monotype Imaging) and […]

Symbian has kindly sent me the latest Symbian Press/Wiley book for review - "Developing Software for Symbian OS" by Steve Babin.
This 2nd Edition of the book builds on the original 2005 book and has been updated for Symbian OS 9. Most importantly, it includes the changes and implications of platform security…
"This book is an essential guide for anyone wishing […]