Mobile developers may be interested that 5o9 has developed a solution that allows BlackBerry and Windows Mobile device location to be made available to web sites without any native software development. A browser plugin provides location to web sites as well as allowing for customisation of browser menus to make navigation easier.
I contacted 5o9 to […]

If you are working with the mobile Internet and user agent strings you might like to take a look at user-agent-string.info. It’s a database of user agent strings (mobile and non-mobile) with an API if you wish to use it pragmatically.

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Despite the world financial problems, I am still seeing the same number of companies approaching me with mobile development opportunities. However, what’s changed is that not all of them have any money. A greater proportion are offering shares, a share of profits or other displacement earnings schemes to try to get developers on […]

Are you a mobile developer targeting (or thinking of targeting) the enterprise? Need to know what platforms to support? This week’s paper edition of computing has a ’stats of the week’ chart showing handheld operating systems supported by the enterprise… 
 
It’s no surprise that BlackBerry and Windows Mobile are the top-supported platforms. However, I was surprised […]

There’s a thought provoking article at GLG asking whether Android will save Motorola’s mobile device unit.The article asks…
"why canceling all work on Symbian, not joining the Symbian Foundation (open-source) and changing horse completely to go with android?… does Motorola really think that it will be easier to tackle head on a competition made of HTC […]

If you follow my blog you will probably know I haven’t been a great fan of Symbian Signed. It seems that Symbian Foundation have been listening to myself and many others.
There’s a new draft test criteria document (needs free registration to view) on the Symbian Foundation blogs. The new aims for Symbian Signed are…
"to guarantee […]