GoMo grapples with social networking apps

Rating: Not much luck with Ovi/Facebook and Zbang
GoMo News isn’t having much luck this week with social networking apps for mobile phones. For starters, Zbang’s claims to have a mobile element turned out to be exaggerated. Then Facebook for Nokia wouldn’t work.
Having seen a teaser on Facebook for apps aimed at the mobile phone owning [...]

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 [...]

Scribblings from the S60 Summit in Barcelona

Rating: The agenda includes LBS and widgets
I’ve managed to squeeze an invitation from Nokia to attend its S60 Summit here in Barcelona. The main purpose is to showcase the innovation taking place amongst S60 developers.
 
Looking at the agenda for the next two days, several of the presentations look set to be highly provoking. Such as [...]

A week of widgets in the news

Rating: Nokia actually explains what a widget is
This week was very definitely widget week with announcements from both Nokia and three mobile operators who formed the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL). (See separate story).
The Nokia announcement was useful because it did at least explain why a widget would be useful in the first place. What Nokia [...]

Idle Screen Mobile Search: Nokia and Google mobile search client for S60 devices

So, I saw on my twitter feed that a couple of people in the blogosphere had downloaded the S60 Google Search client. I then read a review on All About Symbian and thought as the previous Mobile Search Analyst it was my turn.
Yikes. My immediate reaction to the Google S60 Client is “gosh it is [...]

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