A bit of a curiosity this one. If you go to Gauss, you can view the patent for the Symbian OS. As far as I can tell, the premise is that EPOC provides an efficient way of storing strings that, in turn, allows the OS to be created in c++ rather than c. I find […]

ARCChart has some thought provoking analysis on Nokia’s acquisition of Trolltech. It’s generally a negative view on the prospects for other mobile Linux vendors…
"It is even more telling that Trolltech’s management have accepted Nokia’s cash, instead of holding out an improved valuation were they confident that future market conditions would be favourable to the company." 
and…
"where […]

After last year’s Symbian Smartphone show I commented that the UIQ 3.x UI Designer would become part of the Carbide.c++ beta around January.
Nokia has now released their release candidate 1 for Carbide.c++ 1.3. This Beta-release is the first one that contains UI-designer with support for UIQ applications. It can be downloaded from http://groups.google.com/group/carbidecpp-beta after you […]

Nokia have announced their intention to acquire Trolltech. What will be the implications of this on Nokia and mobile developers? The press release says…
"Trolltech’s deep understanding of open source software and its strong technology assets will enable both Nokia and others to innovate on our device platforms while reducing time-to-market. This acquisition will also further […]

Jo on the London Mobile Monday email group has posted a link to Deloitte’s Telecommunications Predictions 2008. There’s a downloadable report and associated podcast that plays in your browser.

As I said two days ago, future predictions should be taken lightly. However, the report is nearer term than most and contains some interesting issues and ideas […]

According to the UK Guardian newspaper, Symbian is aiming to supply 10 percent of the world-wide mobile phone market within the next three years.It aims to improve market share by about 1 percentage point per year due to growth of use of the Internet on mobile phones.
It’s interesting to note that Symbian says…
"We do not […]

I am currently doing some work for Palringo so was interested to see the latest Forrester Research that European Mobile Instant Messaging To Triple In The Next Six Years.
There are two types of research. Forward looking such as this one and backward looking analysing what has happened. I tend to take forward looking ones […]