Rhomobile today announced the compatibility of the Rhodes smartphone development framework with iPhone OS 3.0 and the recently announced iPhone 3G S. The Rhodes “write once and run on many” framework allows developers of all levels to utilize their HTML skills to create robust native applications for the new iPhone 3G S – without having…
AdWhirl – the most popular ad platform solution among iPhone application developers
AdWhirl announced today that it has closed a one million dollar seed round led by Foundation Capital, with additional participation by several angel investors. Founded in April of 2009, AdWhirl has apparently become the leading open ad platform for iPhone developers, with over 1,000 publishers and more than one billion ads served per month to…
PSP development becomes cheaper… will encourage more developers?
In a slightly staggered double-hit, Sony has announced the PSP Go (as we know, pictured), and also significant reductions in the cost of developer tools hardware: Sony Computer Entertainment has boosted its support for software development on PSP by reducing the price of its PSP Development Tools hardware, making it even easier for companies to…
Oman Mobile boosts 3G network to 14.4Mbps
Cellular News is reporting that Oman Mobile has announced its 3G network is going HSPA – or in simple number terms, boosting up to around 14.4Mbps! Of course, it’s quite likely that peak rates won’t oft be attained, and also that 3.5G coverage won’t be region-wide – however, those lucky enough to be in the…
UK: Carphone Warehouse profits leap up!
Cellular News is reporting that Carphone Warehouse has had a big jump in full-year profit from £73 million last year to £550 million this year – this being due to a big gain from the sale of its retail business. The company is now in two parts, with the fixed-line telephony and ISP (TalkTalk) being…
T-Mobile Austria testing LTE
What’s with all the LTE News?! First it was TeliaSonera, and now it’s T-Mobile Austria who are getting on the LTE bandwagon… TeleGeography is reporting that T-Mobile Austria has installed a test LTE network in its Vienna Renweg store. As with some other Operators, it’s Huawei that is on infrastructure duties. They managed to get…
3 Italia and Ericsson tie up Network and Managed services agreement
Ericsson have announced an exclusive contract with 3 Italia that includes a seven-year agreement to modernize and upgrade the existing WCDMA/HSPA network with Ericsson technologies and architectures. It also includes an extension of the current managed services deal. Under the network transformation contract, Ericsson will modernize and upgrade the existing 3G mobile broadband access and…
Huawei and TeliaSonera achieve world’ s first LTE mobile broadband connection
Huawei and TeliaSonera/Netcom have announced the world’s first mobile broadband Internet connection over a live commercial LTE network in Oslo, Norway. The first showcase on the live LTE network in Oslo, between a Laptop PC with a 4G modem and public Internet/Intranet included downloading of high resolution photos, music, movies and mobile business applications, at…
UK: eXpansys: Nokia N97 with £30 of vouchers included!
Those of you that are not enamoured with the iPhone or Pre might be pleased to know that e-tailers are looking after your Nokia needs with the N97 and some good deals! eXpansys is one of those companies, and are currently offering the N97 for £499.99 – but with £30 of vouchers in there, for…
Poland gets a new MNO
So Poland has now get a new Mobile Network Operator, called CenterNet. It’s a GSM network (don’t get too excited) running in the 1710-1730MHz range. Apparently CenterNet is aiming to get 200k subs on in the first year, and be at 2.5m within five years! Of course, as we all know infrastructure roll-out takes time,…