With news today that Adobe have dropped the Flash Lite redistributable, it has made me question whether it’s the start of the end for Flash Lite. Recent Adobe redundancies and a new focus of running full flash on mobile also tend to suggest Flash Lite might eventually be a casualty.
In terms of S60, recent (and […]

The videos and presentations from MEX May 2009 have just gone online. There is lots of brain food for people working in mobile.

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Most mobile applications I have worked on over the last few years have communicated with a server. I have used lots of server side implementations and, even though I mainly write for the phone, I have created a few server implementations myself.
The main decision at the start of a project is one of scalability. […]

If you are a mobile developer in the UK you will be interested in Nielsen’s latest sales statistics for the UK.

Other interesting stuff…

There is still a large market to target with just one in seven Britons owning a smartphone
The number of people browsing the web on mobile increased 32 per cent between Q2 and Q3 […]

If you are interested in how applications are being used to promote brands then you might be interested in Johnny’s spreadsheet. It lists current iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Palm applications that explicitly promote a brand.
Notable by their absence in this study are Symbian applications. In other news there’s a rumour that Samsung will be dropping […]

I have just been reading how the market for telemedicine devices and services in the USA will generate nearly $3.6 billion in annual revenue within the next five years, with mobile-services companies taking a sizeable chunk of that business.
This ties in well with a potential client I visited today who isn’t anything to do with […]

Canalys have just released their Smartphone sales statistics for Q309. Smartphone shipments grew 4% year on year and continue to defy the poor World economic conditions. The data of most interest to mobile developers is the split by operating system:    In terms of technologies, over 80% of smart phones now ship with integrated GPS and […]