Sony Ericsson are reported to have hired 'attractive young actors and actresses' to go around various towns and cities, posing as normal young folk, asking ordinary members of the public to take their photgraohs with a SontEricsson T68i mobile phone....
There's an article on Linux Planet which considers the opinion that Microsoft has abandoned WindowsCE and is allying itself with Ericsson to produce broadband mobile software. Although Ericsson have said that this has nothing to do with WindowsCE, LinuxPlanet is hoping that this news, along with the news that Nokia intends to release a Palm based smartphone, puts Symbian in Peril - though it does depend on how you look at it.
Pots and kettles mean nothing to the Microsoft fangirl site that took great joy in pointing out this article that tells of how Motorola, Ericsson and Nokia (MEN) are allegedly monopolising the Mobile Phone market and the standards therein - and there was me thinking that Microsoft wouldn't know what a monopoly if it hit them in the face - seems that when it's someone else who's having the profits, Microsoft's eyes are wonderfully healed.
In this article on the Wireless Development Network Richard Bloor runs through an article on the Mobile VB systems and goes through a hello world example.
It is now possible, thanks to the new syndication system, to get the news and forums on your website. A beta system for watching the news and forums from your desktop is also available.
This article by Christopher Brown-Humes from the Financial Times looks at the position of Nokia in the forthcoming years and says the real competition is not from Motorola but Microsoft.
The Mobile Edition of All About ER6 News is now available. This is a version of the news designed for viewing on devices with small screens such as the 9210.
A feature by Michael McCarthy on the Wireless Resource Centre reports on a speech made by Stewart Walsop (a venture capitalist) where he discussed who will be on top of the market in 2007. He says that it won't be Nokia, Handspring or Microsoft. In fact, he says that these will have 0% of the market, each. He is putting his money on BREW.
An article on the Wireless News Factor makes for interesting reading, if a little depressing if you look at it the wrong way. Entitled Shutting Microsoft Out of the Wireless World, it looks at how attempts to block Microsoft's access to wireless markets are likely to fail.
AccountancyAge have an interesting feature / interview with Thomas Chambers the Chief Financing Officer of Symbian. There's a good analysis of Symbian financing in the article too and its well worth a read.
A column on Commweb, entitled Microsoft Dances Toward UC looks at the blessings (if indeed there are any) and the curses of having Microsoft involved in the unified mobile device market.
The register posted an artile a few days ago. The article explains that the anticipated cost of the z100 according to Sendo themeselves will be in the region of £300 / £700.
