Telmap responses positively to criticism

Rating: GoMo News stands corrected

It’s always heartening to receive positive feedback, so Ronen Soffer’s (CTO with Telmap) response to GoMo News’ story about partnering with operators (here) definitely merits publication.

Vodafone promises 700+ apps on 360 launch

Rating: Biggest shock is that V 360 is cross handset platform and cross network
An ambitious plan to have at least 700 mobile applications up and running for the launch of Vodafone 360 was revealed yesterday [28th October 2009]. This contrasts sharply with the 243 apps which were purportedly available for the release of the first [...]

Nokia/Symbian - Enough Hype!

Well that got your attention didn’t it! Don’t get me wrong, I think the announcement yesterday was good news. Symbian has needed to go Open Source for a while.
For one reason it can be a real pain to programme for. I know. I have hired developers, and good ones to do it and everything about [...]

Fancyapint – GPS enabled search to tickle your fancy

Rating:  Best use of LBS and mobile men can think of
Stumbled across a search engine right up my street here @ the S60 Summit - Fancyapint from Oxford Softworks. Naturally it’s a service aimed at drinkers visiting Central London. And it uses GPS.
It’s the company’s third major offering under the ‘nearme’ brand, with previous offerings including [...]

Aricent goes global with Celltop handset environment

Rating: Breaks out of single operator and single OS handcuffs
Having initially restricted itself to BREW based handsets and just one operator – Alltel, Aricent has widened the scope of its Celltop handset environment to include Java (J2ME) mobile phones.
This enables Aricent to target the much larger number of GSM based operators.
To facilitate this move, Aricent is making [...]

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