I am currently getting a very large number of calls and emails from offshore companies in India. Either I am on some kind of list or offshore companies are concentrating more on mobile.
The thing is, I do all development myself. I sometimes recommend companies (offshore and non-offshore) to people but that’s the extent of it. […]

If you are a mobile entrepreneur you need as many facts and figures as you can find to evolve and validate your ideas. One source I came across recently is a study by thinkinsights with Google. It’s in the form of a slideshare presentation that provides information on how smartphones are used in daily life, […]

If you have ever done development on Nokia phones or even owned a Nokia phone, you should find nokiamuseum.com interesting. It contains just about every one of Nokia’s phones and currently lists 801 models. The early phone names are very entertaining … ‘Talkman’, ‘Actionman’ and ‘Cityman’. Just think if they used these names today.

Mozilla have announced Boot to Gecko (B2G), a web-based OS to compete with mobile operating systems such as iPhone, Android and WP7. The associated forum explains how they intend, initially at least, to base the bootable/Linux/kernel part on Android as they have already done work in that space.
One of the problems with todays’ web apps is that […]

Today I came across Strategy Analytics’ statistics on Q2 2011 tablet shipments. This is the first time it has been shown that Android tablets have been able to significantly eat into Apple iPad sales…
 

 
More interesting is the fact that total tablet shipments increased by 331 percent over the year which suggests there’s a growing market. 15 million […]

When budgeting for a mobile app, people often look at the headline cost of the initial development. In practice, the real cost is usually much more. However, by following a few common sense guidelines you can reduce the over-spend. Here are a few tips…

Re-work. In many of the mobile projects I have worked on there […]

I recently came across a great mobile enterprise site. After a brief registration you can gain free access to some informative reports and white papers including…

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