Archive for December, 2007

Voice 2.0

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Yesterday evening’s Mobile Monday London was all about Voice 2.0. There were speakers from Erlang Consulting, Wireless Foundary and Spinvox. The speaker from Fring couldn’t make it so Christian Lindholm gave his views on Voice 2.0. Jay Fenton from Howler Tech also gave a demo of a mobile-based conferencing system.
Here’s what I took away from the […]

UIQ 3: The Complete Guide

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

The book UIQ 3: The Complete Guide, that I helped write earlier this year, is now online in the form of a Wiki. There are six chapters there at the moment and more will be added by UIQ in the coming days.
The book will be published conventionally, in paperback form, via Symbian Press in 2008. However, the Wiki […]

Google MyLocation: How Does it Work?

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Following on from my post last week, I have received an email from someone (called Tauno) who says the Sony Ericsson version of GMM doesn’t send the IMEI.
Now I think Vodafone’s version may be a custom version that uses their wholesale location service. The version that most people are using is just using the cellid […]

Simple Directmedia Layer (SDL)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

I recently commented on how Symbian libraries are starting to appear. SDL is a new Symbian multimedia library that provides low level access to audio, keyboard, 3D hardware via OpenGL and a 2D frame buffer.
SDL is particularly useful for cross platform development…
"SDL supports Linux, Windows, Windows CE, BeOS, MacOS, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, […]