Yesterday, I went to a Microsoft BizSpark event in London. BizSpark is a Microsoft initiative to help startups with software, support, (Azure) hosting and investment. This particular event was for Windows Phone 7 and anyone could go along to learn about developing for WP7. It included talks from Microsoft and commercial/technical panels made up of […]

A long time ago, before iPhone and Android app stores, some people were saying apps were dead and the future would be web apps. The thinking was that fragmentation was making mobile development so difficult and costly that web technologies were the only solution common to all platforms. I commented that web technologies wouldn’t necessarily […]

I have been doing some research on mobile web apps and came across a useful graph at StatCounter that shows the top 9 mobile browsers from Oct 09 to Oct 10. It interesting to see that the iPhone browser is actually declining while BlackBerry and Android are seeing steady growth.
 
I can understand how growth of […]

There’s a very interesting article at Sony Ericsson Developer World on an Appcelerate event where highly successful mobile app developers and publishers shared their strategies for money making success.
This includes…

Getting users from free to pay through virtual goods
Virtual goods in mobile advertising
Retaining customers (The article also mentions seven strategies for retaining customers)

In reality, unless […]

I have been continuing to try to get the latest Qt tools working and have learnt a few things that should have been made clearer by Nokia. I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to get the Mobility 1.1 APIs working under emulation. I have tried on Windows, Ubuntu and have even tried […]

Following Nokia’s announcement that the future of all Symbian and MeeGo development will/should be based on Qt, Qt Quick and QML, I have been evaluating Qt Quick, QML and the latest mobility APIs for use on a client project I will be working on very soon.
Previously when creating Qt UIs, you had to […]

Millennial Media have a new October report based on use of their ad network that reaches users in over 250 countries. There are lots of useful charts that can be used by mobile developers. For example, here are the top 10 mobile app categories (based on impressions)…
 
The top 30 devices also gives […]