Symbian News

Share Advertising Revenue With Your Mobile Phone

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST

MoadCast brings the consumer and the advertiser closer together in a more meaningful, cost-effective and targeted manner with a revolutionary permission based mobile phone community. MoadCast offers its members a guaranteed revenue share of the advertising revenue generated through MoadCast's mobile phone advertising platform. Members join for free and have the ability to earn up to GBP45 per month.

Regarding Google’s $750 Million Acquisition of AdMob

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST

“The news that Google acquired mobile advertising player AdMob for $750 million confirms the legitimacy of the mobile advertising industry, and overcomes any skepticism of whether small screens can offer big opportunities to reach mobile consumers,” says Dave Gwozdz, CEO of Mojiva Inc., which operates a mobile ad serving platform and mobile ad network. “The fact that Google has placed a premium on owning a mobile ad network is very notable. The market has definitely matured to the point where it makes sense for online behemoths to try to combine networks, analytics and delivery technologies in the hopes of capturing a share of this growing market.”

Our Social Network Just Got Bigger

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:15:00 EST

LG Electronics Canada and Rogers Wireless today announced a world first: the LG Eve, a new Android OS-based smartphone designed specifically for social networking, is now available exclusively at Rogers. The LG Eve provides customers with the freedom of mobile social networking, making it easier to stay connected anytime, anywhere.

LTE - The Rise of the Mobile Prosumer

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:00:00 EST

Such consumer & technology transformation has distorted the way 'Prosumer' consume their products & services, and interact with their mobile devices. The industry awaits to see if Asia’s Top Telecom guns can decide on a unified approach to map revenue streams back to the operators. The average handset has evolved from the humble voice-box, to the total media centre. As a result thousands of start-up companies are profiting out of the Telecom sector's advances, supplying the various add-ons which inevitably accompany any new wave of technology.

Vodafone 360 Samsung M1 Expands Market Reach of LiMo Handset Portfolio

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile industry leaders today announced the Vodafone 360 Samsung M1, the second LiMo compliant device built upon LiMo Platform Release 2 (R2). This latest handset developed by Samsung offers mobile consumers a unique mobile experience presented through Vodafone’s stunning feature-rich, highly customizable Vodafone 360 user interface (UI) – providing a new set of Internet services for the mobile and PC that gathers all of a customer’s friends, communities, entertainment and personal favorites in one place. Following in the footsteps of the Vodafone 360 Samsung H1, the Vodafone 360 Samsung M1 is designed in price and function for a larger segment of mobile consumers.

Push It Up! Implementing Apple's Push Notifications for Fun and Profit

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EDT

Ever looked into Apple’s Push Notification? If you thought it was as a simple as flicking a switch, think again! Enabling Push in your app is just the start and Joe Pezzillo, Co-Founder of Push IO LLC and the founder of Metafy LLC, will show you how to get your application up and running with Push Notifications in no time.

Qualcomm Innovation Center Joins the Symbian Foundation

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EDT

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC) and the Symbian Foundation today announced that QuIC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, has joined the Symbian Foundation and has been appointed to the Symbian Foundation board of directors. QuIC will support the Symbian Foundation with active participation on the board of directors and each of the four councils that govern the development of the Symbian platform.

Rapid Application Delivery - Going Hybrid

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EDT

According to Lee Barney, “You will learn how and why to use the standard UIWebView in your applications in any way from a simple display of easily formatted text.” Barney will be presenting a 45-minute breakout session at iPhone Developer Summit 2009 West, being held November 3rd, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in conjunction with SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Expo (November 2-4, 2009).

Key Steps to Developing VoIP-enabled Apps for the iPhone

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:30:00 EDT

According to Jan Skoglund, “Trying to cobble a VoIP solution is likely to cause developers severe headaches, time delays and frustration.” Skoglund will be presenting a 45-minute breakout session at iPhone Developer Summit 2009 West, being held November 3rd, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in conjunction with SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Expo (November 2-4, 2009).

Selling Products with StoreKit

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:30:00 EDT

According to Ernest Svehla, “Iwill include a quick review of key components then present best practices for organizing your products, selecting a selling model, and implementing your approach.” Svehla will be presenting a 45-minute breakout session at iPhone Developer Summit 2009 West, being held November 3rd, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in conjunction with SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Expo (November 2-4, 2009).

Design Patterns for Distributed Mobile Applications

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:45:00 EDT

According to Jason Christensen, “Patterns are important for consuming ReST based web-services, TCP stream based services, and Push notifications from the iPhone.” Christensen will be presenting a 45-minute breakout session at iPhone Developer Summit 2009 West, being held November 3rd, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in conjunction with SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Expo (November 2-4, 2009).

Enabling Enterprise Mobility on the iPhone

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:45:00 EDT

According to Senthil Krishnapillai, “As pressures mount on IT departments to allow devices access to complex types of corporate data, iPhone business use must go beyond secure email access.” Krishnapillai will be presenting a 45-minute breakout session at iPhone Developer Summit 2009 West, being held November 3rd, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in conjunction with SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Expo (November 2-4, 2009).

Rhomobile CEO to Speak at iPhone Developer Summit 2009 West

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:30:00 EDT

With the iPhone more than earning its place in the consumer market, it is now being adopted by enterprises. But just how easy it is to create robust enterprise applications for the iPhone, as well as all the other major mobile platforms? With Ruby and HTML in the cloud, according to Rhombobile CEO Adam Blum, the answer is "Very easy." Blum will be presenting a 45-minute breakout session at iPhone Developer Summit 2009 West, being held November 3rd, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in conjunction with SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Expo (November 2-4, 2009).

Rhomobile to Announce Production Release of RhoHub at 4th Cloud Expo

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:45:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Rhomobile, Inc., the makers of the Rhodes smartphone development framework, will be Exhibiting at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, taking place November 2-4, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. At the event, Rhomobile will be announcing the Production Release of RhoHub, the world’s first development-as-a-service offering for the mobile industry. RhoHub provides a web-based service for both smartphone app development and hosting of mobile applications, making native mobile applications easier to build, deploy and run on all smartphones including BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian and iPhone. RhoHub allows developers to generate, compile and run smartphone applications through the web giving them flexibility in their build environment. No SDK (Software Developer Kit) is required, making the build process faster and more affordable. Developers can write code online from the RhoHub website anywhere.

MapKit Best Practices

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:45:00 EDT

According to Ernest Svehla, “I will include a quick review of key components then present best practices for displaying map customizations and annotations specific to your application needs.” Svehla will be presenting a 45-minute breakout session at iPhone Developer Summit 2009 West, being held November 3rd, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in conjunction with SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Expo (November 2-4, 2009).

Risks and Enterprise Mobility?

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EDT

This is the fourth in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enteprise Mobility. For this penultimate article I've decided to raise the Risks to be aware of before and during implementation of an Enterprise Mobility Strategy.

Bluetooth SIG Opens Nominations for Best of CES Awards

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:00:00 EDT

The SIG’s Best of CES Awards is a revamped version of the organization’s annual Best of CES contest. The new awards program was designed to create a simple and flexible nomination process to better shine a spotlight on the year’s most exciting Bluetooth devices. Submissions must no longer fall into a product category and can be entered when nominated by a member company or the SIG itself.

The Smartphone OS Battle Intensifies

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:01:00 EDT

Market research firm, In-Stat (www.instat.com), believes we are entering a very critical time for smartphone OSs, as exemplified by four major smartphone announcements on October 6 from AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Palm, and Microsoft. “With Android on the upswing, Palm’s Web OS starting to expand, and Apple’s iPhone not showing signs of slowing down, the battleground, and subsequent weeding-out phase of the smartphone OS war has started,” according to In-Stat analyst, Allen Nogee.

Recursion To Announce the First Real Cross-Platform C++ Toolkit

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:30:00 EDT

Recursion Software is about to say that it’s ported its high-performance C++ Toolkit to five of the most popular mobile operating systems so programmers can finally write a single app that can run on any phone using those systems with virtually no modifications. The Symbian release is available now, with iPhone, Android, Windows and Linux support planned for release this winter.

Unisys Provides Mobile Support

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:45:00 EDT

Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) announced Unisys End-User Productivity Services, an innovative suite of services designed to provide organizations with the ability to support an increasingly mobile, technology-smart workforce that values integration of consumer technologies into the workplace. The new Unisys services will enable CIOs to reduce end-user costs by providing support for devices, desktops, applications and mobility through a flexible mixture of traditional, virtualized and secure cloud-based service delivery models.

LA Phil Launches Microsite Celebrating Incoming Music Director

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:00:00 EDT

The Gustavo microsite prominently features a brand-new interactive online game and iPhone application, Bravo Gustavo, designed by Hello Design to simulate the experience of conducting an orchestra. The Bravo Gustavo online game invites users to interact with Gustavo and the LA Phil performing Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique (music courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon). The Bravo Gustavo iPhone application adapts the mobile device into a conducting baton, utilizing the accelerometer to directly affect the overall tempo and note duration of the music – just like a real conductor.

RIM Launches BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac Users

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:30:00 EDT

Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM)(TSX: RIM) has exciting news for Mac® users that want an easy and reliable solution that syncs their contacts, calendar appointments, tasks and notes with their BlackBerry® smartphones. A new version of the BlackBerry® Desktop Manager software has been developed specifically for Mac users. The new desktop software is scheduled to be available for free download from www.blackberry.com/mac on Friday, October 2 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Windows PC Version of The Missing Sync for Palm Pre Released by Mark/Space

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Mark/Space, creator of award-winning desktop and handheld synchronization software, announced immediate availability of The Missing Sync for Palm Pre, for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Transfer and synchronize information and files between Palm Pre and Windows applications: Microsoft Outlook, Windows Media Player, iTunes and Explorer. Keep Outlook contacts in sync between a Pre and PC, automatically and wirelessly, via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth -- even when a Pre is on a Palm Touchstone(TM) charger. Copy Outlook calendars wirelessly too so that appointments and schedules are always at hand.

Smartphones Just Became Smarter

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:30:00 EDT

"Other local search applications present the user with a fog of information. World Surfer totally avoids that fog, providing just the information users seek - quickly, reliably 24/7," explains John Ellenby, GeoVector's CEO. Initial US content channels for World Surfer include Google, Microsoft Bing, Yahoo! Local, Wikipedia, Papa John's International, Inc. pizza restaurants and a convenient Starbucks coffee tracker. GeoVector's open platform supports third-party plug-in content channels and API documentation is available for developers.

WhitePages Mobile Offerings Surpass 2 Million Users

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:41:00 EDT

WhitePages now reaches more than 2 million mobile users through its iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, SMS and m.WhitePages.com mobile offerings. With popular features like caller identification and reverse phone lookup, click to call, GPS-aware directory services and directions, WhitePages mobile applications are achieving significant adoption.

Developing Mobile Websites with NetBeans and Netbiscuits

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:15:00 EDT

The development of a mobile portal is illustrated using a practical example. For this purpose, a popular Java web project will be created in NetBeans and is later connected to a Custom Application.

Nokia Linux Phone: Take It or Leave It

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:30:00 EDT

Nokia isn’t planning to customize its first-ever Linux Maemo phone, the N900 unveiled last month. It’ll be the same from all of the carriers it signs. The company told Reuters, “Very clearly Apple, Android…are a whole lot less about providing customization to the operators and a whole lot more about providing a really cool, compelling value proposition to the end customer. We have an opportunity that we are going to take advantage of with the Maemo platform to play the game a little bit more along those lines than with Symbian lines.”

Sybase and Verizon Team up to Manage Mobility Solutions For Enterprises Worldwide

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:00:00 EDT

Today Sybase & Verizon announced they are teaming up to enable Verizon's multinational companies to effectively manage the deployment and ongoing support of their growing mobile workforces. Business requires that organizations connect partners, suppliers, manufacturers, remote offices and remote employees directly to their systems, applications and information so they can improve customer service, bring products or services to market quicker, make better decisions and increase their organizations’ overall productivity.

Stewart McKie Launches Mobile Tagging and Content Delivery Topic on Ulitzer

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:00:00 EDT

Stewart McKie launched today the Vizitag Mobile Tagging and Content Delivery topic on Ulitzer. McKie has 25 years of IT industry experience. His education includes a MSc in Organization Consulting and a MA in Screenwriting. He was the Technology Editor of Business Finance magazine during 1995-2000 and also wrote regular features for Intelligent Enterprise magazine. He is the author of six books on accounting software and over 50 technology white papers. His current focus is his mobile tagging web app Vizitag.com and his scenewriting web app Scenewrite.com.

Ipadio’s iPhone App Makes Mobile Broadcasting and Audio Blogging a Breeze

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:00:00 EDT

For the first time, iPhone users can choose to live stream audio to their own web site or pre-record up to 60 minutes of audio and upload it later. Callers also have the option to use SpinVox voice to text conversion to produce title, tags and a transcript, plus all of the things you’d expect including adding photos from the phone, geolocating the call and automatically integrating with social media (Twitter, Facebook) and popular blogging platforms. Listeners can subscribe to each “channel” as a podcast in iTunes, within an ipadio account, via RSS or even old fashioned email. IPod Touch users can of course record and publish via ipadio.

Microsoft & Nokia Aim to Go Stomp Blackberries

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:45:00 EDT

Microsoft and its new best friend, erstwhile rival Nokia, still the world’s biggest smartphone maker despite Apple and RIM though maybe not as chi-chi, have cut a grand long-term global alliance that will see Microsoft support a mobile OS other than Windows Mobile for the very first time. The move suggests that Microsoft units are starting to adopt more of an “it’s every man for himself, boys” approach to the market.

The Faster Way to Better Living: Dream Properties at the Click of a Button on Your Mobile Phone

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:45:00 EDT

Axel Springer‘s real estate portal Immonet.de now enables property searches on a mobile phone, iPhone, Blackberry and on other smartphones. More than 950,000 houses, apartments and other properties can easily be found each month on mobil.immonet.de with the help of Netbiscuits, the leading software platform for the development, operation and marketing of mobile internet pages.

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Available in Stores

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:30:00 EDT

T-Mobile USA announced the national retail availability of the highly anticipated T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google. Customers can now purchase the myTouch 3G in T-Mobile retail and partner locations, as well as online at http://www.t-mobilemytouch.com, and also choose from an array of accessories and customized shells to make their device truly their own.

Mobile Comms Can Save €43bn in Energy Bills Per Year - Vodafone

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:00:00 EDT

A new report released by Vodafone and Accenture says that the use of mobile communications can reduce the annual energy bill for Europe by a €43 billion, equivalent to an annual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by at least 113 Mt CO2e (metric ton carbon dioxide equivalents) by 2020. The figure equals about 2.4% of the CO2 emissions for the whole of the EU, or eliminating close to one-fifth of the UK’s emissions. Obviously, there’s a catch. Vodafone says that the only way to achieve those goals is for the industry and governments to collaborate. The report, titled Carbon Connections: quantifying mobile’s role in tackling climate change, identified 13 opportunities that could enable carbon abatement across 25 EU countries.

Sybase Reports Double-Digit Growth in Q2

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:30:00 EDT

Sybase reported historical Q2 records achieved in operating, income, operating margin, net income, EPS, and cash flow. Revenue and EPS exceeded first call consensus. Management raised full-year guidance for revenue, EPS, and cash flow.

$725 Million to Acquire Nortel's Assets

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:45:00 EDT

MPAM Wireless., an affiliate of MatlinPatterson, submitted to Nortel and its creditor constituencies a proposal to acquire substantially all of Nortel's CDMA and LTE Access assets for US$725 million. MatlinPatterson believes that its alternative proposal is higher and better than the "stalking horse" bid from Nokia Siemens Networks B.V. ("NSN") and provides, on multiple fronts, a superior outcome for Nortel and all of its stakeholders.

Adobe Flash Media Server on iPhone

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:15:00 EDT

Modulation Index, LLC announced that the Tuner2 Hi-Fi Radio app for Apple iPhone is the first ever iPhone application to natively support the true RTMP protocol for streaming audio via Adobe Flash Media Server. Radio stations can now use a single standard streaming format to serve MPEG-4 HE AAC v2 audio to listeners on Windows, Mac, and Apple iPhone. In addition, Modulation Index announced that this functionality is also available immediately to all station customers taking delivery of customized versions of its iPhone radio app.

Sybase iAnywhere Recognized as a Leader in Mobile Device Management Enterprise Software

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EDT

Whenever I speak or write (check out other recent articles) about Enterprise Mobility, I always express the necessity of Mobile Device Management, to cover all of the mobile devices that an Enterprise may have, in the very important areas of...

Sybase iAnywhere Blue SDK & the Android Platform

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:15:00 EDT

Today Sybase iAnywhere announced that it had added add the Android framework to its growing list of Bluetooth ported products. This is part of a new version of its Blue SDK (Software Developer Kit)...

Sybase Announces Support for Android

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:00:00 EDT

Sybase iAnywhere today announced a new version of its iAnywhere® Blue SDK (Software Developer Kit) that will help developers and product managers incorporate Bluetooth® capabilities into Android devices. With the underlying Bluetooth functionality running on a Linux based 2.6.x kernel, the Sybase iAnywhere Blue SDK provides necessary application layer support for developers to effectively add increased wireless flexibility to the rich Android framework.