Private equity firm, Elevation Partners, will pay $325 million in cash for a 25 percent stake in the company and Palm will pay a special distribution of $9 a share,or about $940 million in cash to shareholders for their reduction in ownership. Jonathan Rubinstein, the former head of the iPod division at Apple and creator…
Java to make tools for designers to fully utilize Java FX
Partially not mobile related, but something I love to keep a track of is this new world of rich internet applications. How we experience the internet in the next 5 years is something I love to think about and try to consume as much information about said topic as I can. First off we have…
Video: Palm Treo 500v walkthru!
Thank you Cellulare Magazine Italy. Love the accent, love the video even more:
S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 to include eSWT support
The next version of S60 that will appear in devices set to launch in 2008 will include embedded Standard Widget Toolkit support. What exactly is eSWT and why should you care as a Java developer or as an end user? It makes creating a graphical user interface practically a cakewalk. More information about eSWT on…
Nokia looking to get into mobile search, meets with UK company Taptu
Nokia is getting pretty serious about offering services to the consumer, but are they actually considering competing with Google? Taptu CEO Steve Ives, former VP of Business Development of Qualcomm Europe, went to Nokia House in Finland on September 11th to talk about their product: Taptu is a new search engine, focused on providing the…
Video: Nokia N95 8 GB preview
Rafe is at it again, here is the Nokia N95 8GB from the Go Play event. If you want to know the 9 things that make the 8 GB version different from the plain old N95 then sit back and enjoy:
Live pictures of the white Nokia N73, pink Nokia E65 and brown N95
These seem to be for the Asian Pacific region only, but hopefully the rest of the world will get them in due course. These are the highest selling (volume) Nokia devices out there so it only makes sense to release more colors to spur sales. The white N73 isn’t too appealing, the pink E65 is…
QNX just went open source, how will this affect mobile phone operating systems?
Symbian powers nearly 7 out of 10 smartphones on the planet. Nokia uses it and builds S60 on top to create devices that lead in multimedia. Sony Ericsson uses it and slaps UIQ on top to create devices that are smarter than typical feature phones. A major competitor to Symbian is Linux, an operating system…
Sony Ericsson integration with the Sony Connect Music Store to be announced on November 6
The Inquirer is reporting that Sony Ericsson will be integrating the Sony Connect service into their devices on November 6th. Whether or not this is a response to Ovi is questionable, but do we really need another player in the “we hope kids stop pirating music” game? Sure the future is services, but why are…
Palm Treo 500v is official, how did our leak stand up?
We got everything right except for the product dimensions. Score. The new Palm Treo 500v is a Vodafone exclusive for now, triband GSM (900/1800/1900) and UMTS on the 2100 MHz band. With a weight of 120 grams and only 16.5 x 61.5 x 110 mm it is wider than the Treo 680, but thinner and…