Vodafone to drop Wayfinder for navigation

Microsoft pushes Silverlight to mobile developers

Xobni Outlook add-in goes BlackBerry

Rating: Responds to user pressure
Pressure from existing desktop users has led to Xobni launching a mobile version of its product for the RIM Blackberry, according to Xobni’s Eric Grafstrom. Best known as an add-in for Outlook, Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry offers fast-searching for emails, addresses and SMS.
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Those missing St Patrick’s Day apps – an update

Rating: Irish pub finder still a challenge

Those amused by GoMo News’ story ‘Finns Irish apps go missing‘ will be pleased to hear that the whereabouts of two have been confirmed. Nokia has admitted the third isn’t quite ready and the fourth is still AWOL.

Good & Bad news for Android lovers

Rating: Nexus One sales poor while 3 promises six handsets

Android lovers have just been hit with both Good news and Bad news. The Good news is that UK operator, 3, is rumoured to be readying no fewer that six Android based handset while the Bad news is that Flurry has revealed that sales of the Nexus One have continued to be pathetic.

Genera’s F1 app is officially unofficial

Rating: Has blessing of Formula One Administration after all

When Formula One Administration released its ‘official’ 2010 application in time for last Sunday’s [March 14th] Grand Prix, there was some suggestion that the ‘unofficial’ F1 apps would be closed. However, Genera Interactive’s Enrique Tapias Fraga has ardently denied this.

Mobile social networking in London

Yesterday saw the second Social Media World Forum run in London - an entire day of presentations and speeches by the social media community. I was chairing the mobile branch of the event , so I didn’t get a chance to do any interviews, but there were a lot of interesting tidbits about mobile social networking that I pulled from the event.

Native iPhone apps developers still thriving

Rating: Second largest suppliers of iPhone games

An interesting item concerning the make-up of companies developing apps for the iPhone turned up in a blog produced by Flurry Analytics. It appears that native iPhone application developers are more than holding their own in the games sector which Flurry describes as being, “The iPhone’s largest revenue generating category.”

Finns Irish apps for St Patrick’s Day go missing

Rating: Must have been hitting the Guinness, coz they ain’t there

Crickey. Nokia has caught St Patrick’s Day [17th March] fever and claims to have launched four apps to celebrate. This obvious attempt to entice people to its Ovi store appears to have backfired. Those apps are: - Find the best Irish bar; Fly the flag; Get by as a local, and Find a cheeky leprechaun. But GoMo News couldn’t find any of them.

Opera expounds the 5 merits of its browsers

Rating: Good reasons to download, Part III

To mark the fact that it has released the final versions of its Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 mobile web browsers, Opera has come up with five good reasons why consumers should download and install its leading alternative mobile browsers.