Beatnik has announced that they have developed a new audio format geared specifically for mobile devices. The company, fittingly founded by Thomas Dolby, claims that their new format can compress audio files ten times smaller than the popular MP3 format. To make good on their claim, the format includes just one copy of a repeated…
Facebook Rolls out new Mobile Video Uploading Service
Facebook users will now be able to upload videos right from their mobile phones. Thanks to the new Facebook Platform allows third-party development for applications that work with Facebook. The first Facebook Platform application, Video, “allows for the simple sharing of personal videos between friends within Facebook, as well as the creation and sending of…
Sony Ericsson Developer World launches in China
Everyone loves China these days. Ok, there are some companies which bluntly rip-off popular handsets, but other than that – all companies want a piece of the growing Chinese mobile market. Sony Ericsson is no exception, and just recently they’ve launched Sony Ericsson Developer World in China. The logic behind this move is simple —…
Nokia Handsets to Become Lightning Detectors
What else are they going to come up with? Nokia must really be running out of ideas for features to pack into mobile phones. In what must be more marketing than practicality, the n handset manufacturer has started development on software that will allow their handsets to warn the user of incoming lightning. We can’t…
Mozilla says Firefox Mobile is in the works
Mozilla has confirmed, through CEO Mitchell Baker, that developers are working on a mobile version of the uber-popular Firefox browser. The “Firefox Mobile” browser aims to bring the full, desktop experience that users of Firefox already enjoy, to the mobile arena. This is a long-term project and Mozilla is working ot ensure that the customizability…
Sun Microsystems debuts the jPhone, Linux-based Java Mobile FX OS
Sun Microsystem’s recent acquisition of SavaJe’s intellectual property has finally borne some mobile-OS fruit. As if to celebrate the merger’s finalization, last Friday, Sun debuted it’s Java phone (jPhone, anyone?) at JavaOne. The jPhone is powered by Java Mobile FX software, which is based on the SavaJe code that Sun acquired. The Java Mobile FX…
Forum Nokia introduces Series 40 platform 5th Edition
Nokia announced the new edition of its Series 40 feature phone platform. The new Series 40 5th Edition is a full hardware, software and API architecture, incorporating Java ME technology with support for the latest version of the mobile information device profile (MIDP 2.1), and providing an enhanced UI that enables developers to build richer…
Silverlight for Windows Mobile – Look out Adobe Flash!
Microsoft’s Silverlight format, an alternative to Adobe’s Flash format, has been opened up to .NET developers. Windows Mobile users can expect a slew of new Silverlight-based applications for their smartphones, in the near future. Flash is already renowned for it’s versatility and wide-spread adoption, so it remains to be seen if Silverlight can make any…
Nokia unveils new version of its Symbian OS development tools – Carbide.c++ v1.2
Nokia recently announced the availability of new developer productivity and cost-savings enhancements to its Carbide.c++ development tools for Symbian OS.
Nokia S60 Widget Development Platform Announced – Widgets On Your Nokia Phone!
Nokia has announced that they will be supporting the development of widgets for their phones running the S60 Symbian operating system. It looks like this may be Nokia’s answer to Microsoft’s ZenZui interface and Apple’s widget-based interface on their iPhone. But with support for Ajax, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, the Web Run-Time based widgets will…