A month ago, I started my second startup and whereas I now know all the things I should not do again, I can say its just as hard this time.   I continue to make mistakes but at least I've learnt from the previous ones and they're different mistakes this ti...

webOS 1.3. You want it. I want it. In fact, we all want it running its point-updatey goodness on our Pre phones, because there's nothing like an OS update to reassure one that the mother company does indeed still love you. It's on its way very, very soon - in fact, some developers ...

If you were one of those getting your hopes up over Tuesday's report on the possibility of webOS GPU support in the "immediate future", prepare to have those hopes dashed against the rocks of reality: Ajaxian have appended an update from Palm to their note on the webOS developer t...

iPhone gaming can be hazardous to your privacy, apparently. A security hole in the iPhone OS allows someone with the right know-how to design an iPhone app to secretly learn an iPhone’s phone number. The problem is serious enough that iPhone game developer Storm8, creators of...

While going through Gabor's article On Google's move in navigation, I happen to see the Google Sync page, Google Sync can setup with Mail for Exchange. You just need to download and install the Mail for Exchange (MfE) and later follow the Setup Google Sync. This ...

Palm recently demonstrated a new web-based platform it plans to offer to developers to help speed up the creation of applications for webOS. The platform, called Ares, will feature a drag-and-drop interface and won't require developers to download APIs ...(follow link to read)

Well now you just about can. This is not released by Spotify, but rather a budding developer over at xda-developers.The application will allow you to stream audio using the Spotify service, directly on your handset, using your favourite media player (that supports OGG).Requirements...

Well now you just about can. This is not released by Spotify, but rather a budding developer over at xda-developers.The application will allow you to stream audio using the Spotify service, directly on your handset, using your favourite media player (that supports OGG).Requirements...

SEE 2009 (Symbian Exchange and Exposium) is Symbian's annual big show. In the video below you can join me on a walkabout around the show floor at SEE 2009. I share my impressions and analysis in an unscripted, one-take, walk and talk. As well as covering many of the Symbian related...

Hello people! The Mobile Monday event is going to take off in Rio next Monday (November 9th). This will the debut of Mobile Monday here in Rio. The event theme is "Mobile Innovations". The confirmed speakers are: Luis Valente (yeah, it's me ), I'll speak about what ...

Presenting at the Open Mobile Summit today, Palm has unveiled their latest weapon aimed at bringing more developers to webOS: Ares, a drag-and-drop web-based tool aimed at speeding up webOS development even further, said to be released by the end of the year. PC World has the scoop...

Presenting at the Open Mobile Summit today, Palm has unveiled their latest weapon aimed at bringing more developers to webOS: Ares, a drag-and-drop web-based tool aimed at speeding up webOS development even further. PC World has the scoop: In a demonstration at the conference, a P...

In this episode, Forum Nokia’s Riikka Jarvinen speaks with Stuart Harrington, front end web developer for Tui Interactive based in London.  Stuart discusses his most recent application development projects and also provides some advice for users who are new to mobile so...

I have just been reading how the market for telemedicine devices and services in the USA will generate nearly $3.6 billion in annual revenue within the next five years, with mobile-services companies taking a sizeable chunk of that business. This ties in well with a potential cli...

From Nokia has now release an APIBridge component for WRT developers. This component was once internal and only available to our selected partners (e.g. facebook, netflix, project). FN has now approval from internal teams to release to general developers. You can find the download...

The Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group is holding an eSeminar on Friday 13th November at 12 PM EST. Mark Doherty from Adobe will share some information about Flash Mobile development. Here more information and here is the eSeminar link to beused on November 13th: e...

The HTC HD2 quick start guide and user manuals have popped up on the web thanks to this post on XDA-Developers.As well as showing all the features of the HD2 in considerable detail, they also have "what's in the box", mentioning both a microSD card and a "Pouch", though there are n...

The HTC HD2 quick start guide and user manuals have popped up on the web thanks to this post on XDA-Developers.As well as showing all the features of the HD2 in considerable detail, they also have "what's in the box", mentioning both a microSD card and a "Pouch", though there are n...

Yesterday I decided to set up my camcorder and record a walkthrough of the HTC Touch HD2, which I know lots of people are excited about... and here it is! It kinda turned into a rather epic video coming in at just under 45 minutes! I DARE you to watch it all the way through, hah!Th...

Yesterday I decided to set up my camcorder and record a walkthrough of the HTC Touch HD2, which I know lots of people are excited about... and here it is! It kinda turned into a rather epic video coming in at just under 45 minutes! I DARE you to watch it all the way through, hah!A ...

Forum Nokia Kevin Sharp has produced a nice summary of Nokia's plans for Ovi Maps in terms of in-building navigation (think malls, airports, etc.), collating material from several recent events, much of it from Michael Halbherr, VP of Social Location. It's a good read, although the...

There’s no recession for the leading mobile games developer Gameloft. During the first nine months of 2009, the company’s consolidated sales went up by 18%, reaching 90.2 million EUR. On a constant exchange rate basis, that’s actually 16%, which is still impressiv...

It's been announced a couple of days ago that turn-by-turn GPS navigation would be supported soon on devices based on Android 2.0 platform. Free of charge. The new Google Maps Navigation offers free turn-by-turn navigation garnished with Google's core business (...

World's First Mobile Development As a Service Offering Simplifies Native Smartphone App Development

Canalys have just released their Smartphone sales statistics for Q309. Smartphone shipments grew 4% year on year and continue to defy the poor World economic conditions. The data of most interest to mobile developers is the split by operating system:    In terms of ...

Jakarta, Indonesia - Nokia Life Tools, the service which gives consumers in small towns and rural areas the ability to get a range of livelihood and life-improvement services on their mobile phones, will launch in Indonesia in early December 2009.

Before Twitter, before Live Messenger, before Yahoo!, before Skype and before ICQ, there was one instant-messaging service to rule them all: Internet Relay Chat. The now-ancient technology was first created in 1988, and to this day remains the favoured chat service of 'net nerds gl...

Yesterday we saw news break that HTC's Touch FLO 3D had been ported to work on the Samsung Omnia II, and now today Herg, a well known developer over at xda-developers has managed to successfully port Sony's X1 Panels to run well on a HTC Touch Pro2.Check out Herg's corner for more ...

Yesterday we saw news break that HTC's Touch FLO 3D had been ported to work on the Samsung Omnia II, and now today Herg, a well known developer over at xda-developers has managed to successfully port Sony's X1 Panels to run well on a HTC Touch Pro2.Check out Herg's corner for more ...

For compatible devices, the BBC iPlayer widget just got a big update from version 1.6 to version 2.5 (hat tip to Nokia Users). Speed and formatting are much better, and there are improvements in encoding and N97 homescreen widget support. More information, including some screenshot...

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has recently updated its Analytics product to help developers see how people are using specific parts of their iPhone and Android applications. As with websites, you can track pageviews and events. Since there are no HTML pages involved in mobile apps, developer...

Product Category: GPS-assisted softwareManufacturer: JMD SoftwareWhere to Buy: From the developer -- download available here; or from the Windows MarketplacePrice: $3.99USDSystem Requirements: Marathon requires a Windows Mobile 5.0+ Professional device with a GPS receiver an...

It seems many insiders have known this was coming for a long time now, however, only just recently did it become official... no more N-Gage Platform and all roads lead to Ovi Store.

Ajaxian, the web development blog founded by Palm's heads of Developer Relations, Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, has caused quite a flutter in the online Palm community today, with a fresh post covering a recent webOS talk in London that the dynamic duo hosted in conjuction with O2...

Opera Software today unveiled the beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia and other Symbian/S60 handsets. Most notable in the new Opera Mobile 10 beta is a sleek design, which Opera first introduced to the world in the recent release of Opera Mini 5 beta.

<OVI beta> <podcast> by Martin   Ovi Developer Beta [ link http://www.forum.nokia.com/Ovi/Develop_with_Ovi.xhtml ] already allows select developers to embed Ovi Maps into their websites using simple and familiar web technologies. They can take advantage of rich mapping and positioning functionalities, such as 2D/3D maps, add custom content and fly trough. In a podcast from Nokia Developer Summit, Michael Halbherr, Vice President of Social Location at Nokia, talks about how developers can leverage the billions of dollars of development embedded in Ovi Maps and NAVTEQ data. At the Web 2.0 Summit, Michael unveiled that Nokia Maps will in the near future include the insides of buildings such as shopping malls, airports, hotels and other facilities. This will expose mobile consumers to a whole new range of services that can include the mixed realities and augmented realities of real internal maps, metadata about the sites seen, and realtime interaction from the user. The idea is simple enough, but turning the idea into reality is not. To begin with, GPS tracking ends when you lose your line of sight to the sky, so the interior mapping of a user’s location must be done through cell ID triangulation, and through WiFi hotspot identification and triangulation. ‘There must be one logic system for location, whether it is through GPS, cell ID, or WiFi,’ asserted Halberr. Right now, those systems are separate, but Nokia is working on the integration. Halberr said that Nokia is also working on including the 3D element to the interior mapping system. In one sense, this is an obvious need, in that the items one finds on the 4th floor of a large department store will be very different from the items for sale on the 5th floor. In a deeper sense, however, this may also include the 3D mapping of objects that one may find on a given floor. When it comes to collecting the actual images that will form the interior maps, Halbherr says that Nokia has an advantage over Google. ‘We have millions of S60 devices already out there, and each of them is capable of collecting data,’ says Halberr. ‘We switched on the cell learning features, and within weeks we recorded 90 percent of all cell coverage in major countries. As we move to the mapping of interior walking paths, we have the advantage of numbers.’  Halbherr indicated that the buildout of interior mapping will include the installation of inside cellular base stations in shopping malls, airports and other locations by the wireless operators. By triangulating the device's position relative to the GPS satellite outside the building, and to all the cellular and Wi-Fi hotspots inside, Nokia will be able to associate the device with a specific cell (areas 10 meters or less) as it moves around inside the building.   When pressed about the timeframe for the interior mapping project, Halbherr gave himself a leisurely deadline of within the next two years. I suspect that we will see real demonstrations of parts of the interior mapping system long before that as the most popular locations will probably be mapped first.   All of this came from the Q and A session after Halbherr’s talk. During the speech itself, he discussed the state of the Ovi SDK, which is currently in closed beta, and why it is important. The best feature about the Ovi SDK, of course, is that it is built for use with Javascript, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and HTML. The bottom line is that developers with any of those three skillsets will be able to create mobile apps without having to know the deeper technologies like Symbian C++. Even Javascript writing may be abstracted up to a higher level, Halbherr claims. ‘Javascript is to mobile programming as assembly language was to the PC. It will be generated by higher-level tools rather than written directly.’

Do you develop mobile apps for the iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian or webOS? Well, we want to hear from you! We’ve partnered up with “Under The Radar” to find cool mobile apps that will blow our minds. We’re asking any and all mobile app developers ...

Movial, the company that inspires rich, intuitive Internet experiences, today announced at the Rich Communications 2009 conference that it has been selected to provide its RCS-ready Communicator mobile client for Symbian Series 60 based on the GSMA Rich Communication Suite (RCS) in...

Sybase Addresses Market Need for Hosted Device Management and Personally-Owned Devices in the Enterprise

(TROIS-RIVIERES, NOVEMBER 3RD 2009) Inventis today announced the release of OGR2GUI version 0.6, the graphical user interface used to convert and manipulate geospatial data.

I have just completed some work on Locatorz that went live today. It’s a phone (BlackBerry and S60) location system that uses Ordnance Survey maps and data that’s far more detailed than that provided my other mapping systems. It also converts locations to named areas a...

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA? X10 is Sony Ericsson?s first phone on Google?s Android OS platform, delivering a consistent user experience where communication truly becomes entertainment. XPERIA? X10 offers a compelling opportunity for developers.

Ellis Vigeo’s TextSafe is one of those apps designed for people who look for an extra layer of security in their messages. Using the iPhone application, users can create messages and crypt them using anyone of 10 different encoding “ciphers” and then send it [mess...

Online universe of fan communities for games PlayHaven is “going iPhone” by opening up its platform to the iPhone developers. As a result, interested individuals and companies which make iPhone games can instantly establish a community presence online and in-game for fr...

<video> <app> by Kevin  I am a firm believer that the best uses of technology disappear. Good technology, like good design, gets out of your way and let's you do what you want to do. Only technology geeks care about how the developer did what the devel...

It seems a plethora of music-creation Apps have crashed on to the iPhone of late ? and I?ve had the opportunity to play with quite a few of them! My stand-out favourite to-date has been Groovemaker, which I think is a genius bit of coding. So it was with great interest that I recei...

<video>  <podcast of presentation> <podcast of conversation> by Kevin   You’re on top of the world, but the world is changing, noted EVP Mary McDowell as she opened her presentation High Order Bit – When can we scale the Mobile Web? a...

In this episode, Executive Vice-President Mary McDowell discusses mobile-first usage, scale, and the steps required to bring the next one billion consumers into the mobile universe in her presentation at the Web 2.0 Summit. Entrepreneur and program chair John Batelle introduces Ma...

AT T FAST-PITCH ALSO SELECTS IQ ENGINES PHOTO LABELING APPLICATION AS THE WINNER IN CONSUMER CATEGORY Developers Win $10,000 Grand Prize, Exposure to Millions of Wireless Customers

NEW YORK- The outlook for mobile handset markets continues to improve , says Jake Saunders, ABI Research's VP for Forecasting. While 3Q-2009 showed a YoY 6.5% contraction in shipments to 291.1 million, 2009 should close out with only a 4%-5% contraction (to 1,138 million for the year).

Appointment Strengthens Foundation and Drives Innovation on Symbian in Japan

It’s strange that themes seem to surface in unrelated things I hear about or in conversations with people. At the moment it all seems to be about ‘cost’. A few weeks back I made the observation that it’s difficult to compete with free applications. I als...

<design aid> by Kevin Why start from scratch? Nokia Mobile Web Templates offer a series of custom, styled, and tested mobile web components. Mix and match components or use the full series to completely customise your mobile website or application. The components are ...

I participated Symbian Exchange in London last week. We had a small Birds of Feather session there about Runtimes on Symbian. For that I prepared a small roadmap presentation giving out information of what new features our future Java Runtime releases will contain for developers. I...

Palm's development team has announced that select webOS developers with applications available in the Palm App Catalog will now be able to get early access to future webOS system updates. Palm is providing this new program so that developers can primarily test compatibility of the...

Epocware, the developer behind applications such as Handy Shell and Handy Weather have just released a new application dubbed the Handy PhoneGuard. Being a security application, the Handy part plays in when with the help of one user chosen password, it lets you protect several part...

Palm (NSDQ: PALM) seems to struggle to get developers on board. The idea would be to sell the Pre and Pixi in more countries and engage the worldwide developer base, as the current strategy doesn’t seem to work. Their App Catalog now counts 300 titles, which is very, very poo...

The everlasting question is upon us again, but is there an easy way to figure out what smartphone platforms developers should choose? Check out our take here.