Monday 27 February
- What Will Your Apps Do With 2.5 Gbps of Bandwidth? (08:50) - NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it achieved 2.5Gbps packet transmission in the downlink while moving at 20km/h. The fourth-generation (4G) radio access field experiment took place in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture on December 14, 2005.The article discusses some more technical... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 3 January
- Mobile Usability: The Pause Feature (09:30) - Another one from Forum Nokia where they have published a document talking about the design of the pause menu in mobile games. As they are quick to point out, pause isn't just for action games to be able to take... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 21 November
- Diversions: How to Keep Your Job (13:00) - Those of us that are in the U.S. have a holiday coming up this week. Just about everyone not in retail has Thursday and Friday off. With that in mind, this link is for entertainment and fun. Let's start off... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 1 August
- Need Ideas for Your Future Mobile Apps? (12:46) - Over at Tech Digest, they've got results of a recent analyst report about mobile markets. At the top, games will grow from USD (all in USD) $2.6 billion in 2005 to $11.2 billion in 2010. Mobile music sales will continue... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 21 July
- [Off Topic] BeerXML (08:22) - When looking around for QUALCOMM BREW items to post here, it's not too uncommon to run across sites about beer brewing. Well, this particular site actually has a twist to it that I thought some people might find amusing. It's... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 30 June
- Quake? On My Phone? (20:42) - And no, I don't mean the vibrate feature. This game was extremely good for it's time. And if it's as good on my phone then I'll have to play it. Not sure if it'll be as spooky in the dark... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 29 June
- Creating Small Graphics for Small Devices (16:37) - Developing software for mobile phones and other resource constrained devices has a variety of critical differences as compared to developing for a desktop or server. However, creating graphics for these devices has a number of key difference, too. You can't... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 10 December
- FCC Rules May Change to Expand Market for Apps (09:27) - The FCC may consider changing rules for commerical US flights to allow the use of cell phones. This means people could have even more hours of free time to sit around and use applications on their phones. Right now, most... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 5 November
- Mobile Games Market Small Compared to Content (10:00) - Mobile games have long been poor relations to ringtones and wallpapers. One research company estimated that only 5-20% of all downloads are games. However, if you look at the entire gaming industry and compare it to, say, the entire... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 29 October
- User Testing: Why We Can't Do It (09:20) - This article talks about why real end user testing is needed and why we can't do it. We (us mobile engineers) do not make a very good target audience -- at least for most areas and demographics. This may not... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 31 August
- CTIA Announces Developer Offerings for show at end of October (23:27) - CTIA- The Wireless Association(TM) announced the developer offerings for CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2004, the breeding ground for cutting-edge wireless software and applications. Leading wireless developers will be on hand to meet with top manufactures and service providers... | 0 Trackbacks
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Sunday 29 August
- Bush vs Kerry Boxing from Sorrent (13:14) - Can't wait for November to punch your vote? Sorrent, a leading creator and global publisher of mobile entertainment, today announced the launch of Bush vs. Kerry Boxing, the first and only politically charged game for mobile phones. Bush vs.... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 25 August
- Smartphone Summit 2004 at CTIA 2004 in San Francisco (23:07) - Smartphone Summit 2004 will be held Monday, Oct. 25, coinciding with CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2004 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. The Summit aims to gather the top smartphone-based enterprise solutions covering all smartphone OS... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 24 August
- Scanbuy's Optical Intelligence (21:33) - This resulted in the creation of Optical Intelligence, a utility which provides developers with the ability to include barcode reading functionality within their applications. The user of the application points their phone's camera at the barcode and Optical Intelligence... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 18 August
- Forum Nokia on Optimizing the User Experience (08:52) - Frequently, mobile developers face a challenge in optimizing their applications to several different devices. Nokia Develop/Optimize is a practical programming paradigm that describes how to leverage the strength of Nokia's developer platform approach while acknowledging and addressing device variations.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Mobile Gaming Continues to Bring Investment and financial activity (08:28) - This article, from MSNBC, talks about mobile gaming and how it relates to investment and venture capital (you know, because mobile gaming is all popular now so the big guns want to invest, naturally). MSNBC - Cell phone gaming gathers... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 16 August
- Archos' new Gmini400 Supports Mophun (14:06) - Archos has a new media player availabled called the Gmini400. Unlike the AV400 series, this does not record video. But it can playback video and audio as well as viewing pictures. However, and of greater interest to this group,... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Mobile Software Platform Business Models (08:06) - This article is interesting in that it gives a run down of the various business models in use within mobile right now. This isn't in a specific level, but rather in broad, sweeping terms with speculation. The point of... | 1 Trackbacks
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Monday 9 August
- Bruce Lee Enters Mobile Gaming (09:12) - Indiagames Ltd., a leading Mobile entertainment developer, has entered into an agreement with Universal Studios Consumer Products Group to bring wireless content honoring the legacy of Bruce Lee to mobile phones. The wireless content for mobile phones will include... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Mobile Gaming Drawing Investment (09:06) - This article from MSNBC talks about the growing trend that we've noted here: mobile companies are getting lots of investment and starting to take part in public offerings. Mobile gaming is catching fire, thanks to the explosion of color... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 5 August
- IN-FUSIO, developer of Mobile Games, receives $27 Million Funding (08:17) - In the continuing trend of mobile companies receiving investment or being acquired, we have yet another round of investment here. IN-FUSIO, the leading global game publisher and game services provider for mobile phones, today announced that it has raised $27... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 4 August
- New Embedded Development Conference in San Jose, CA (08:34) - The first annual Embedded Software Development Conference, to be held mid-August in San Jose, will focus on high-level applications development for embedded platforms such as J2ME, Windows CE, Palm OS and Embedded Linux. It's bound to include QUALCOMM's BREW,... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 29 July
- Spiderman 2 for your Mobile Phone (07:46) - IndiaGames, the developers of J2ME, BREW, I-Mode and Symbian games has entered into an agreement with Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., and Marvel comics to bring "Spiderman 2" to the wireless arena. Two games will be developed. One is a... | 0 Trackbacks
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Sunday 25 July
- Weekly Wrapup from The Feature (12:04) - TheFeature brings us a nice wrapup of a variety of things moving around the wireless world this week. It's earnings season, KTF is officially dropping BREW in favor of the Korean mandated WIPI, and other such fun things... TheFeature ::... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 16 July
- iWireless World next Week, July 21-22, 2004 in Hollywood (17:06) - iHollywood Forum, Inc. today announced the final lineup of executives confirmed to speak at the fourth annual iWireless World(TM) (www.iWirelessWorld.com), an international conference and showcase focusing on how wireless technology is transforming entertainment and the enterprise. The summit will take... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 13 July
- Visto Launches 3rd Generation Mobile Server (07:36) - As an important component of the Visto Mobile platform announced on June 15, Visto Mobile Enterprise Server 3.5 provides a number of important enhancements requested by mobile operators, their enterprise customers, and industry analysts, including: over-the-air (OTA) synchronization of... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 28 June
- Mobile Acquisitions Everywhere (07:54) - The wireless industry was abuzz this week with news of companies snatching up other companies to either expand their portfolio or strengthen their overall business. Here's a roundup of the latest mergers and acquisitions. WirelessWeek.com... | 0 Trackbacks
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Sunday 27 June
- Handango Announces 2004 Mobile Awards (14:51) - Last night, Handango, the leading provider of mobile downloads, announced the winners of the Handango Champion Awards at the Handango Partner Summit. Judged by members of the media and other industry experts, the Handango Champion Awards honor the best in... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 24 June
- Digital Chocolate Acquires Sumea Games Publisher (07:54) - The acquisition provides Digital Chocolate with relationships with some of the world's largest wireless carriers, international distribution channels, and a catalog of leading games for mobile phones. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Digital Chocolate applications will be available... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 18 June
- Mobile Email Still Small (07:58) - Just over a year ago there were around twenty companies in the mobile email space: today with acquisitions and failures, it's less than ten; and by next year it might be less than five. Many companies have recognised the... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 15 June
- Visto Mobile Launched for Wireless Operators (07:52) - Visto Corporation has announced a new integrated platform allowing mobile network operators to provide push-based mobile email/PIM solutions aimed at individual, small business or corporate customers. With this new release, Visto has also improved product usability and performance on popular... | 0 Trackbacks
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Saturday 12 June
- Terraplay Systems Receives Investment for Continued Expansion (12:21) - Terraplay Systems has completed its financing round raising 6.5 million from Nordic Venture Partners and existing shareholders. The market for mobile and fixed multiplayer gaming continues to develop rapidly. Terraplay has made substantial progress in this market over the last... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Investment Moving into Wireless in Canada (12:10) - The Bell Accelerator Fund is launching its eighth funding round to sign agreements with innovative companies targeting the development and commercialization of new products and services in the wireless as well as wireline-wireless convergence space. The fund is seeking to... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 8 June
- SoBe and SmartServ Partner to Offer Ringtones, Games, and Images (07:42) - The site, which can be found at http://www.SoBePhoneGear.com, lets users personalize their phones with free, SoBe-branded mobile content and offers free registration in SoBe's "Very Important Lizards" (VIL) membership club. Users can also purchase content from a selection of... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 3 June
- SmartServ Provides Kiosks in APS Wireless stores (07:54) - SmartServ will be placing kiosks for purchasing ringtones, wallpaper, and games in to APS Wireless, a retail outlet for mobile phones. The content can be delivered via SMS, WAP, J2ME, BREW, and on RIM Blackberry and Pocket PC devices. SmartServ... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 1 June
- Q1 Smartphone Shipment Numbers (08:14) - The overall market grew about 41 percent from Q1 last year. In Europe, Nokia has about 48% of the market but only about 25% in North America and Asia Pacific. On the other hand, PalmOne has 37 percent of the... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 28 May
- France Mobile Gamer Trends study (10:40) - A recent study by IN-FUSIO in France has new statistics about mobile gamers. 60% of those questioned would like to be a member of a mobile game community Female gamers are loyal regular consumers of mobile games but aren't sufficiently... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 21 May
- Mobility: Are we there yet? (07:27) - This new article discusses mobility from the eyes of enterprise usage. As part of this, RIM's J2ME is bashed and Microsoft's .NET Compact Framework is praised: The development environment uses a proprietary flavor of J2ME that requires a learning curve... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 20 May
- on Trust and Mobile Applications (15:54) - Everyone is looking for our trust at the moment. Schemes for digitally signing applications seem to be popping up like gophers across the mobile landscape, each of them confident that we'll place our trust in their authority. Microsoft, of course,... | 0 Trackbacks
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- SmartServ reports Q1 results (07:15) - SmartServ, a mobile company with distributions on BREW, J2ME, WAP, SMS, and other mobile platforms including Pocket PC and RIM Blackberry. Revenues were down to $73, 711 from $230,987 same time last year. Highlights: Completion of Private Placement. SmartServ raised... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 13 May
- Handango announces 2004 Award Finalists (16:25) - Chosen from more than 50,000 applications, finalists for the awards that will be given on Jun 24th in San Diego have been announced. The platforms for the awards include: Palm OS, Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Windows Mobile Smartphon, J2ME, Symbian,... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 11 May
- Companies spend >25% of time on Wireless (07:32) - DevX has teamed up with the Evans Data Corp. to bring you the results of their comprehensive Wireless Developer Survey. In this installment, find out how much time your fellow developers are spending on wireless development. Also, what sorts of... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 7 May
- Phone sales up 29% worldwide (11:45) - Mobile phone sales increased in 04Q1 from 03Q1 by 29%, moving up to 152.7 million. That more the 50 million phones purchased each month, world wide. And most new phones have some sort of application platform available. What is interesting... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Mophun games to be distributed in Beijing (09:16) - Through the partnership with Synergenix, Beijing Etone will provide mophun games to Beijing Mobile subscribers through Beijing Mobile OTA services “Beijing-In-Hand”. Wireless Developer Network... | 0 Trackbacks
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