It’s always enlightening talking to people from the non-mobile development world and listen to their thoughts on mobile applications. Yesterday, I spoke with a friend of mine who is a pilot for British Airways. He has a new (Java ME capable) phone and has seen other pilots using iPhone applications to fetch specialised airport weather […]

On just about every mobile (and non-mobile) project I have worked on I have found people end up asking the same questions again and again. Some questions are related to development while others revolve around how to setup, install, use and support your particular mobile application.
It’s for this reason I believe every project should […]

There’s was an interesting TechCrunch Interview yesterday with Steve Ballmer. There’s mention of Microsoft’s strategy and the "Need to be first and best" to integrate communications and technologies. There’s also an entertaining part where Ballmer can’t seem to bring himself to mention Google and instead refers to Google (Search) as "The Incumbant".
The more useful information […]

As the World recession continues, Ewan at AllAboutSymbian asks "will there be any innovation in the mobile market in the near future?". He gives the example that "at at Tech Crunch 50, the number of start-ups built around a mobile concept was minimal". Ewan asks "Where does the next big thing come from, or is […]

At the end of last year I attended the O2 Litmus launch event. At the time I wasn’t that impressed because there was no way for O2’s users to discover the site from the main O2 Live Portal.
Nevertheless, I thought I’d give it a try. I took some freeware I had for Android and […]

Two years ago I had some thoughts on background applications that might police applications running on the phone. I mentioned this again within the context of the iPhone and more recently within the context of Symbian Signing.
I am pleased to see that the latest version of Android (Donut) includes a battery meter tool that shows […]

Around two years ago I asked why there weren’t that many successful Java ME consumer applications that weren’t games. I went on to conclude that the few that were successful were just a window on more open, capable and consistent processing somewhere else.
It’s interesting to see that a number of development frameworks for […]