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Bemoko claims easy web site 'mobilisation'

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.

MEX 2009 - what's up with the handset market

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.

Novarra says screen scraping is ARPU increaser

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.

Agito claims sucess in Wi-Fi/cellular integration

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.

Truphone transforms Apple's iPhone

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.

Kindle 2 sparks interest in mobile books

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.

Opera gives Google Android a boost

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.

Danger to be acquired by Microsoft

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.

MWC: No UIQ for Windows Mobile

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.