There’s an article at Yahoo! Tech mentioning a survey from SMobile Systems saying "one in 63 smart phones powered by the Symbian OS are infected with some form of malware".
Can this be true? At first I thought not. We are all used to scare stories from Anti Virus vendors saying phones are insecure when, in […]

I have been reading up on Symbian Foundation’s Horizon initiative. It turn’s out it’s less of a store of stores but more of an evangelistic process for Symbian applications. Think of it as a working like a book publisher except that the publisher makes no commission!
If the Symbian Foundation likes your application they will provide […]

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With GPS integrated mobile device shipments almost certainly set to grow, there are […]

Mobile developers will be interested to hear that Nokia is trialling the idea of offering dealers (retail stores) commission for every Ovi Store application or service sold. For the trial, the commission will be £2 per application/service.
In some ways this makes sense. It provides a way for Nokia to use store staff as […]

According to the latest AdMob metrics it looks like Android is becoming more popular, especially in terms of web page viewing… "Requests from the Android Operating System increased 25% month over month. Android has 5% worldwide OS share and pulled slightly ahead of Windows Mobile for the first time."The June report states that "54% of iPhone […]

Digitimes has some rumours on HTC’s future plans. First of all they are going to start using Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile Platform (BMP).
"The BMP-based handset will come with a touchsreeen, HTC’s in-house developed TouchFlo 3D technology and HTC Sense interface as found in the HTC touch-enabled smartphone lineup, and yet the device will be available as […]

The theme for yesterday evening’s Mobile Monday London was ‘Mobile Entertainment Applications’. It turned out to be less about entertainment applications and more about applications in general, widgets and the perennial web vs app argument.
First of all, Patrick Mork from GetJar gave us some interesting statistics on GetJar…

1.2 million […]