Handango have just released their Yardstick for 2007.
"Entertainment applications rose to the leading content category, showing a shift in consumer smartphone usage from business only to work-and-play"
The top devices adding software make more interesting reading…
 
Last year I questioned why there were so few Symbian devices adding software. This year, the same seems to have happened […]

I bit of a reflective post this one - but hopefully it will inspire someone because I know many students read my blog.
I often wonder why I don’t get bored working in mobile and IT in general. I think the reason is because of the large range of domains in which I have worked. Yes, […]

According to GCN.com, Sybase are creating a new cross-platform runtime environment for mobile devices.
While I am looking forward to the recently announced cross platform environments and runtimes, I can’t help but think that if there are too many of them, it may prove difficult for a developer such as myself to keep up with them […]

Following my previous post on increased Handango Commission, I learnt today that Handango has just secured $9.5 Million in Venture Funding.
Handango started in 1999 and I find it hard to believe it still needs venture funding, especially when it has been charging developers such high commission fees. Something seems wrong here.
Meanwhile, the press release […]

I am getting many requests from people asking if I will create a Symbian dev cert for them. Why? Well, Symbian has taken away the facility to create dev certs without a publisher ID.
This means people can’t sign and use many of the freeware applications currently available. Symbian intend to introduce the new Open […]