Archive for June, 2009

PayForIt

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

This post is mainly about UK mobile payment so if you are not in the UK then this might not interest you.
At Monday’s MDA/KTN ‘Monitising the Mobile Internet in Tough Times’ event Thomas Green of MX Telecom gave a great summary of PayForIt. Later there was a panel session with payment representatives from all the […]

New Nokia WRT Plugins

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Last week I was invited to Nokia to learn about today’s announcements regarding extended tools support for the web runtime (WRT). There are now plug-ins for Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft Visual Studio and Aptana Studio.
I was curious as to why Nokia chose these IDEs rather than Carbide. After all, Carbide is free while the first two […]

Monitising the Mobile Internet

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

I was at the MDA/KTN Monitising the Mobile Internet in Tough Times event yesterday. Much of the event covered the UK PayForIt phone bill-based billing that the UK operators are championing. I’ll cover PayForIt in a future post. I’ll also cover Mark Curtis’ session on Flirtomatic in a future post as there were many insights […]

Handset Profits

Friday, June 5th, 2009

There’s an interesting yet contentious post at TechCrunch on Brian Modoff’s (Deutsche Bank analyst) report on handset operating profit share. While many of the post comments question the numbers, I think the overall message is probably valid. Apple and RIM are taking an increasing large share of handset profits.
The bigger question is whether this is […]

Twitter Update

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

I have been using twitter for just over a month now. I previously avoided it because I thought it would be a drain on my time. It turns out most people only tweet a few times a day so I have found it to be less of a distraction than I envisaged. Nevertheless, I have […]

Rhomobile and App Store Rules

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Following on from my previous posts about Rhomobile and interpreters on the iPhone, you might like to read Rhomobile’s take on the App Store rules.
There’s an interesting observation that..
"There is an exception to this ‘downloaded interpreted code’ ban of course.  That is, use of JavaScript within a browser control… Many of such existing web […]