Two days ago I wrote about the opportunities for Android in the enterprise. Related to this, PWC have a new free report ‘Unleashing enterprise mobility (pdf)’  that examines how smartphone provide more opportunities for enterprises than might be obvious at first glance.
The report includes some great articles and interviews including ‘Turning handheld power […]

BGR has a rumour that RIM is considering using Android’s Dalvik JAVA virtual machine on its forthcoming QNX tablets and smartphones. This ties in well with a post I wrote in 2008 when I considered if Dalvik was the new Java.
Since I wrote that post Oracle has acquired Sun and hence Java […]

The Forrester blog has some numbers on which mobile operating system (US) enterprises are supporting and how this is changing over time.
While BlackBerry and Windows Mobile top the list, both iOS and Android are seeing significant growth. Android growth is particularly strong up 11% from 2% to 13%.
Now that Windows Phone 7 has a more […]

Latest comScore research shows that mobile email usage is on the rise. In just one year,users of email have increased by 36 percent.
This made me think about several projects I came across last year where the client had decided they wanted a mobile app primarily to alert the user when something had happened. In actual […]

Last week Nokia released Qt SDK 1.1 Technology Preview. This is a very important milestone for Nokia. This is the first release that allows developers to a) Use deeper Qt Mobility APIs to access phone features b) Easily create QML apps for Symbian. Previously, this required a lot of patience, luck and black magic to […]

The Harvard Business Review has a small article by Eric Schmidt (of Google), explaining Google’s priorities for ‘Preparing for the Big Mobile Revolution’.
They are…

Developing the under­lying fast networks
Development of mobile money
Availability of inexpensive smartphones in the poorest parts of the world

As a developer, the last item interests me the most because, while it’s doing something […]

There’s an interesting article at the GSMA on "The benefits of native versus web apps". Although  the article mentions little about the ‘benefits’, it talks more about how apps are becoming more popular than the web…
"Native apps are already capturing 50 percent of all data volume, stealing share from the web browser"
We are told that…
"App […]