Rating:Get your mobile site going quickly
There've always been products which claim ease of conversion from full web (HTML) to mobile (WML & XHTML) but Mat Diss, co-founder with Bemoko, reckons to have cracked it. Developers write in HTML and his software does the rest.
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Rating: Forsyth says in a perfect world everybody would be Symbian - sort of
At yesterday's MEX meeting, John
Forsyth - who is on the leadership team with the Symbian Foundation -
maintained that in certain circumstances, the entirety of a handset
vendor's software R&D budget is being wasted on maintaining such
a physically large number of handset models. Yet he still appealed
for handset diversity.
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Rating: Company's message was a bit confusing
Either you are trying to promote your own mobile browser or not, surely? Well, Novarra - which offers screen scrapping technology - displayed a split personality over this particular issue in a press briefing.
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Rating: your Nokia lasts longer on wi-fi than GSM
UMA [(Unlicensed Mobile Access] based systems like BT's Fusion gave truly converged Wi-Fi and cellular solutions a bad name. But Agito Networks really does seemed to have cracked the problem with a 100 ms handover time.
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Rating: Brings Twitter, IM and even Skype calls to the party
What a transformation the very latest version of Truphone for the Apple iPhone makes. It now supports a whole range of IM clients plus Twitter and Skype. Fantastic.
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A remark made by Amazon spokesperson, Drew Herdener, has sparked fresh interest in loading books onto mobile phones. The comments came as Amazon launched its Kindle 2 'e-book' reader.
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Rating: Boost for Google initiative
Norway's Opera Software
has announced that its Opera Mini browser is now available for the
Android platform. So there's now an easy way of adding a browser to any
Android based handset.
True to the spirit of the Open net community, Opera is inviting
developers to test the first build and share feedback with Opera for a
forthcoming beta version.
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Rating: It´s all about social networking apparently
I was extremely puzzled when I learnt that Microsoft was going to
acquire (for an undisclosed sum) the mobile software specialist firm,
Danger.
Microsoft´s Robbie Bach muttered something about social networking at
the press conference and the press release which arrived today spells
it out more succinctly.
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Rating: What’s the point? We really like Symbian
With Motorola, Sony Ericsson and UIQ all sitting at the same table
here at the MWC, I had to ask the inevitable question, “Is UIQ going to
develop for the Windows Mobile environment?”
UIQ CEO Johan Sandberg’s reply summed it all up. “What and get out of the UI business?” he asked.
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