I received the UK iPad yesterday. Here are my initial impressions…

Great feel to the hardware. Feels heavy though. Will I carry it outside my home? Probably not. Too easy to drop, get stolen and get overseen.
Strange to have to connect to PC/Mac before can use first time. Why?
Lack of Flash is less of an issue […]

Yesterday Google told us more about the new Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM). This allows small amounts of information (up to 1024 bytes) to be pushed from your server to a specific application on given users’ phones.
The Google article briefly mentions polling vs push. As I have previously mentioned, I have found polling to […]

Bango have a great new whitepaper ‘Make money from your mobile apps‘. It includes an overview of the current mobile applications marketplace, information on best practices for making the most out of your mobile application, advice how to effectively distribute and tips how to make money.
There are also some statistics from Bango’s survey of mobile […]

Gigaom tells us (after a VC panel at Google I/O ) that we should never charge for a Mobile App.
As with most advice, I’d say "it depends…". If you are a large brand or a well known publisher then people will be willing to part with their money. However, for the unknown author it’s […]

There’s a thought provoking post at O’Reilly Radar ‘Google Doesn’t Need To Win’. The part I find most interesting is the theory that Google just needs to keep multiple smartphones (platforms) in the market…
"As long as there are multiple smartphones in the market, content developers will be driven towards open standards like […]

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a large report on the state of the US wireless industry. While the statistics are just for the US, I would think Europe and parts of Asia are also undergoing similar trends.
Business Insider has extracted the 28 charts and some conclusions . Some insights… […]

Robin Jewsbury has an useful post on mobile advertising on the Forum Nokia Blog. He describes his experiences of using mobile advertising and why he uses more than one advert provider to improve income.
Robin mentions the main problem with mobile advertising - scaling. Whether you are using adverts, providing them or in some mobile operations, […]