Microsoft has recently announced that payments on the WP7 phone Marketplace will start at the end of January. However, if you are outside the US, the bureaucracy required to accept these payments without an extra 30% US tax withholding is staggering.
First of all, you have to be in one of the supported countries.
Next you have […]

NS Basic Corporation have a new product ‘NS Basic/App Studio’ that allows you to easily create iPhone/iPad and Android apps.
 
I have had a quick play. Here are my initial thoughts…

You use a Windows-based app to define forms, their properties and functionality in the Basic programming language.
You generate apps to a web site (NS Basic’s […]

Over the weekend, I gained access to the PhoneGap Build beta. As previously mentioned, it allows building of apps via a web interface rather than having the respective SDKs and PhoneGap on your desktop PC. I gave it a try. Here are some observations…

It’s currently working for Android, Palm, Symbian, BlackBerry but not […]

I have frequently mentioned the wealth of opportunity for machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile development. However, there’s a thought-provoking article at Telco 2.0 that explains the biggest barriers to to greater adoption of M2M. The top problem is the cost of switching between carriers. Once you have a SIM in some remote hardware it’s very expensive to […]

One of my readers, Nikolay from the Ukraine emailed me today about research by Global Intelligence Alliance: "Native or Web Application? How Best to Deliver Content and Services to Your Audiences over the Mobile Phone".
It’s an interesting read. However, I think the report is optimistic about the timescales to get phone functionality into […]

Research2guidance have a new free (needs registration/download via their app store) whitepaper on how the mHealth Market Will Change Within The Next 5 Years. It’s based on a survey of 231 mHealth companies.
The whitepaper provides some useful insights such as…

The therapeutic areas that offer the best market potential […]

Tomi Ahonen has a new free book ‘The Insider’s Guide to Mobile’.  It discusses the current mobile telecoms and smartphones business opportunities including services, apps and handsets. There are 340 pages downloadable as a PDF.
Tomi is offering the book as ‘nearly complete’. It still needs a little work, for example, on the contents […]