According to Al Ramadan, senior vice president of mobile and device solutions at Adobe, consumers worldwide demand engaging content and services on their devices. Research by the Boston-based consultancy, Strategy Analytics, forecasts that there are 38 million flash-enabled mobile phone handsets today, but that number is going to grow to 216 million by 2010. The…
Flander to provide Symbian Signed certification
Mobile software testing and development company, Flander, has been granted Publisher Certifier status by Symbian. This agreement allows Flander to test both its own and third-party applications and content and to grant Symbian Signed certification. Flander’s high quality, well-defined processes (they received CMMI 3 level acknowledgment in 16 processes), allow them to offer fixed testing…
Bluetooth 3.0 coming in 2007!?
As DigiTimes notes, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is working with various groups in developing next-generation Bluetooth technology and expects end products using the technology to hit the market by 2007 at the soonest. The next BlueTooth technology will be integrated with Ultra Wideband (UWB) technologies and will allow a 480Mbps-bandwidth wireless transmission at…
The keystone of security
Some recent analysts and commentators have claimed that smartphones can pose a danger to corporate security. David Wood, executive vice president of research at Symbian, believes that although there are good reasons for the industry to be concerned with the issues of mobile security, provided that businesses and people follow some basic rules, there’s no…
Mobile user interfaces' new paradigm
3G Portal has a great article written by Olof Schybergson and Mike Beeston of Fjord Ltd, UK, about the mobile user interfaces. At the beginning authors examine the current industry trends where handsets manufacturers race have been one about hardware (more megapixels, size and clarity of screen, battery life, etc), and that with loyalty, churn…
AppleBerry coming soon!?
Globe and Mail has an interesting article speculating on the potential Apple-RIM partnership. The source of this rumor is the analyst Peter Misek (Canaccord Capital Inc.), who last year accurately predicted a partnership between RIM and Intel Corp. Interesting to add is that in a research note Misek said that senior Intel execs advised Apple…
China Mobile Registers .mobi
Remember the .mobi domain. Well, it seems that its success is round the corner, as China Mobile, the largest mobile telecom carrier in China becomes the first enterprise in Asia registering .mobi mobile phone domain name. That’s great news and I’m looking forward to see many new .mobi websites and mobile web services arise in…
Nokia steps up open source efforts
As mentioned, Nokia’s recent web browser code release to open source community is just a first step. The next stage is to go fully open source, with the aim of accelerating uptake and creating a major developer community. Lee Epting, head of Nokia’s global software development community, said that by releasing the S60 engine to…
.mobi domain is coming
“Dot mobi” domain is coming. It’s not yet open as at the moment only mobile companies can register trademarked .mobi domain names. After that, in mid-June other industries’ trademark holders will be able to register domains before they open to the general public on 28th of August. Not exactly the true Symbian news, but it’s…
3G crippled by lack of services
vnunet.com brings an interview with Thomas Chambers, CFO at Symbian. The main point of this conversation (as the name says) is the consumer uptake of 3G services in the mobile phone market. As said, it is happening much more slowly than expected and the main reason according to Chambers is the lack of services. He…