August 2005
Java = mass market
Despite the growing challenge of optimising applications for individual Java implementations, Sun’s platform remains the clear choice for developers seeking mass market adoption. While open OS smartphone volumes are rising rapidly, Java’s overwhe…
Meet the speakers: Andy Tiller
Dr Andy Tiller leads the development of Cognima‘s seamless replication technology. The company’s SNAP platform maintains an automated link between data such as photos or contacts on a user’s handset and an online information store. This has a wi…
Application Developer Perspective: Part 1: Payment
This is the first in a series of posts describing what I see as the primary issues affecting the current user experience. As a mobile application developer I see the same problems appear again and again. I anticipate MEX will cover many new ideas …
Meet the speakers: Julian Swallow
Julian’s history in the mobile industry dates back to early days of handheld computing, when as a founder and CEO of Purple Software, he led the development of some of the most widely used mobile computing games and applications in the 1990s.
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Micro-learning through mobile blogging
Following yesterday’s article on Mobrio’s mobile blogging deal, Roger Fischer of Kaywa has been in touch to share a white paper on the ‘micro-learning’ experience facilitated by this kind of technology. You can download a copy of the PDF from thi…
Meet the speakers: Aditya Dev Sood
CKS has offices in both Bangalore and Delhi in India, but its interest in emerging economies stretches around the world. According to Aditya Dev Sood, founder and CEO, the company is actively building partnerships to share their experiences with …
PalmSource, MontaVista establish partnership
You could be forgiven for thinking MontaVista and PalmSource are direct competitors, after all, they are both developing a Linux-based, small-footprint multimedia OS for smartphones. Why have they announced a collaborative partnership to: “furthe…
Mobrio, Glue design MTV Starzine mobile blog
Mobrio, which develops a mobile blogging platform, has struck an agreement to provide its technology to Glue, a London-based creative agency. The first result of the relationship is the MTV Starzine, a mobile community sponsored by Nokia which en…