The paper version of Mobile Today has published a headline article ‘Nokia Riles Operators with Skype’.
 
It says 02 and Orange "are understood to have vented their anger in high-level discussions, which involved group level executives from Nokia"
"The row centres around ownership of the customer and well as potential lost calls from Skype’s internet call […]

Pete Dailey wireless analyst at Stratecast (a division of Frost & Sullivan) has written an interesting article on the factors that might have the greatest influence in determining the relative success of mobile platforms.
He says…
"I am persuaded that, ultimately, the key to success will be the ability of the operating system and its core applications […]

Got a new mobile idea? Wonder if there will be demand now that there are worldwide economic problems? Need to know what kinds of services people are looking to use in Europe and the US?
A new survey of 50,000 European and U.S. mobile users shows that, despite worldwide economic problems…
"Consumers intend to dramatically increase use […]

As a mobile developer, I obviously welcome the latest craze for application stores.  However, I came across Symbian Foundation’s plans today which has set me thinking.
The Symbian Foundation plans to have a ’store of stores’ which will aggregate other store offerings. What does this mean for the end user?
Imagine a user on Orange, using a […]

Popular mobile services sometimes evolve from something else or their implementation evolves significantly. Two high profile examples are…

Shozu originally started as a phone sync solution under the Cognima brand, moved over to a camera phone print solution and then moved on to today’s solution as multi site upload.

Flirtomatic started as an installable application and moved […]

According to reports, over the last few hours the Android store went live showing paid applications to some end users in the US.
Viewing paid listings requires an update to the phone firmware. So far, this only seems to have happened to some phones in the US. My phone in the UK hasn’t updated its […]

I sometimes come across companies, especially mobile startups, that lack even rudimentary software engineering and business processes. What do I meant by processes? Well, methods, rules, guidelines, standards, practices and tools to get things done. Here are some examples…

Requirements Specifications
Source Code Control
Software Engineering Process
Change Control
Information Sharing (Intranet)
Coding Standards
Formal Testing
Separate Production and Development Environments

The usual […]