Two days ago, the Symbian Foundation were giving away, via twitter, beta logons for their new web site. Here’s a summary and a few observations on the new web site if you didn’t manage to get a logon.
The site consists of a Wiki (MediaWiki), a bug tracker (BugZilla), forums (vBulletin), code search (Open Grok), SCM […]

There’s a useful if slightly misleading new article on MSDN on ‘Selecting a Windows Mobile API’. It explains when to use .NET, MFC, ATL, WTL and Win32 in terms of existing source code, your team’s skill set and vendor support for the API and supporting tools.
One thing I take issue with is the […]

I was surprised today to hear that S60.com will be closing this June. The reason given is that it’s due to the S60/Nokia/Symbian Foundation re-organisation. It’s unfortunate because there isn’t another official ‘evangelist’ site. This kind of site is important if people are to be made aware of what’s possible on S60 as opposed to […]

Google posted an article about Android compatibility yesterday. In summary,  you can query if an API exists and if not, avoid calling it and do something else.
People usually talk about compatibility where an existing older application can run on a newer version of the OS, not (as in the case of the Google article) a […]

Well, I succumbed to using Twitter this morning because Symbian Foundation were offering logins for their new beta site. I have previously stayed away from Twitter because I just don’t ‘get it’. Seems a great way of wasting time to me and I have more than enough to do. Nevertheless, I’ll give it a go […]

There’s a thought provoking article in the UK’s Guardian today regarding Sony Ericsson’s triple software bet. Several analysts are quoted as saying that using three different operating systems (Symbian OS, Windows Mobile and Android) could prove a costly mistake.
The Guardian article cites technical and subsequent cost reasons why it’s risky to offer phones with three […]

Stephen Wolak from Vodafone Group R&D has contacted me about Betavine Social Exchange. Stephen is a great believe in crowdsourcing , so much so, he has crowdsourced the requirements for Betavine Social Exchange .
He’s looking for comments from possible participants, particularly developers. Here are my initial thoughts. I thought I’d post them here rather […]