While Apple and Google attract all the attention, Symbian keeps chugging along in the background. The company says that 20.4 million smartphones running its OS shipped in the third quarter of 2007 That’s up 56% over the same quarter a year earlier, and means a cumulative total of 165 million Symbian devices have been sold.
One [...]
Cellular-News reports that somebody is considering using the Russian Myasishchev M-55 spy plane as a flying mobile mast. The story appears based on a piece from the Russian site Novosti, which alleges that makers of the plane are negotiating with “an unnamed Western firm” about the resumption of manufacturing of the plane, last made in [...]
UIQ has announced another Fast Track event, scheduled for November 29 and 30 in Budapest. I went to the San Francisco Fast Track back in May, and was really impressed. If you’re just getting started in UIQ or mobile development, it’s well worth attending.
Along with the announcement, I’m going to do a little giveaway of [...]
The discussion about how Vodafone UK is using Novarra’s transcoding technology to break the mobile web rolls on, but kudos to Tom Hume for spotting this gem from somebody at Novarra in an email to a W3C list:
A well-designed content transformation server can do a better job of following the mobile best practices than a [...]
Back in June, I pointed how Vodafone UK’s newly launched “improvements” to the mobile web experience for its customers included using a transcoding system from Novarra that undoes the hard work of developers and publishers that have bothered to create mobile-specific sites that use autodetection. Instead of passing through the correct user agent from a [...]
A lot of companies have been talking for a while about femtocells — tiny base stations users could put in their home or office, and which use a broadband internet connection for backhaul. The idea is that they can improve in-building coverage and offer cheaper phone calls, since they can travel over the internet rather [...]
It was rumored a couple weeks back that the Palm Foleo had been delayed because of some pretty serious bugs. The company’s now dealt with those bugs, and any others the device might have had, by ditching the Foleo completely.
It’s the right decision, for sure. The company says it’s because it only wants to have [...]
It would appear that Novarra’s the vendor responsible for the cock-up that rendered many mobile web sites useless for Vodafone UK subscribers. The company’s put out a press release touting the wonders of its “Vision(TM) server version 6.5″, highlighting the “rich user experience” it offers, and how it “automatically transforms the web to fit handset [...]
I’d written earlier about Vodafone UK’s new data tariffs, which appear to be a marginal improvement over their previous efforts, though they are a small step in the right direction. The new charges went into effect this week, as well as some other “improvements” to the mobile web experience for Vodafone users.
Those improvements entail breaking [...]
Russell Beattie’s been busy since he quit blogging last year, he’s just been a little more quiet about it. However, he’s announced a new project, Mowser. It’s a combination of a transcoder (so mobile users can visit full HTML sites), a directory of mobile-friendly sites, and keywords (delivering quick access to certain sites and information [...]