OMTP passes W3C’s 165 tests with BONDI

Rating: Demo widgets available on BONDI site
The Open Mobile Terminal Platform ( OMTP)  is pretty chuffed that its BONDI reference model is the first to be fully compliant with the W3C’s Widgets (1.0: Packaging and Configuration)  specification. It’s a big step towards cross-platform interoperable mobile phone widgets.
To reach compliance,  BONDI had to pass the165 mandatory [...]

Good news! Boost for mobile apps and widgets as manufacturers sign on to JIL

I’ve long been a fan of the Joint Innovation Lab and what it stands for (see below), so I was delighted to see the news today. Four major mobile handset makers have signed on to the organisation, providing a solid base to what was previously a group comprised only of operators. Perhaps most importantly, one of those manufacturers is RIM - meaning that the JIL has also gotten the support of a mobile operating system with a decent and popular app store.

Verizon launches social networking apps for digital TV

Verizon has interesting news releases for it’s digital TV service, FiOS TV, today. The operator has launched services that provide mobile application and social networking service on your television. It is even launching an Open Development Platform that will allow third party developers to provide widgets on the FiOS service, just like a mobile app store.

Qualcomm tackles mobile Internet retail with new Plaza service

Qualcomm Incorporated has announced an addition to it’s Plaza suite - The Plaza Retail solution. This has been designed to ensure that anyone selling applications can guarantee an easy-to-understand process that works exactly the same across a multitude of devices.

Wait, wait, wait - go back a step. What’s Plaza?

Plaza was launched last year, and was [...]

Nokia launches new mobile application development tools with Aptana

Nokia and Aptana have announced a new set of development tools to help developers create mobile apps for Nokia devices. Nokia WRT (Web Runtime) and the Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio will help third-party developers to create and deploy apps for Nokia. The latest version of Nokia WRT will also allow Nokia users to [...]

Widgets: Feed Henry the widget wonder of the universe!

Everyone has spoken about widgets. I might have been a bit slow on this area but my slowness has evaporated! I am the new widget loving fan of the universe.
 

Why?
Well by chance during mobile world congress I popped into the Oracle innovation lab and listened to a demo on widgets and endless possibilities of mobile [...]

Mobile Widgets make a noise at Mobile World Congress

Widgets are everywhere. The articles below are from Nokia and T-Mobile and also Orange. But I just had the most excellent demo of the all new Eircom Widget store at the Oracle stand. I was delighted to realise that the widget supplier for Oracle was Feed Henry a Waterford based business like GoMo News!

I wasn´t [...]

Amazing new technology allows you to watch TV on the internet… on your TV

Rating: New Samsung deal brings Yahoo! Widgets to HDTV

Samsung Electronics and Yahoo! today announced a new web-based service for Samsung HDTVs. Starting this spring, some models in Samsung’s new flat-panel HDTV range will include the Yahoo! Widget Engine, an app platform for “TV Widgets”. These widgets will allow TV owners to access some content previously [...]

Amobee to integrate ads into Qualcomm’s Plaza widgets

Rating: This widget is brought to you by our sponsors
How can you make money out of mobile widgets? Answer: Find a way of integrating adverts into them. That’s exactly what Amobee and Qualcomm have done together.
Back in May 2008, Qualcomm announced its Plaza offering which it claims is a platform-agnostic service that provides the necessary framework for the [...]

Qualcomm Introduces Plaza, a New End-to-End Widget Framework that Will Allow Operators to Drive Use of the Mobile Internet

Qualcomm today announced Plaza, a platform-agnostic wireless Internet service that provides a common framework for the development and support of widgets that will enable operators to provide their end users with quick and personalised access to the mobile Internet.
After the introduction of Plaza, operators and developers can produce and deliver Internet-based content across their devices, [...]

Operators set up widget lab

Rating: Vodafone, Softbank& China Mobile create the JIL
I was supposed to be participating in a survey covering how UK journalists have interacted with Vodafone. But I dropped out when Vodafone ‘forgot’ to send me the news about the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL).
The JIL is not the first time that Vodafone and China have got together [...]

GoMo News on Wheels! - Sony Pictures TV Intl - Assaf Tarnopolsky

Featured above is Assaf Tarnopolsky, Sony Pictures Television International’s (SPTI) vice president, mobile programming and digital product development. Based at SPTI’s headquarters in Culver City, California, Tarnopolsky is responsible for developing and implementing a cross-company mobile content strategy, including video, games, personalization and premium short message service consumer campaigns. Original video and related personalization products [...]

CTIA: Surfkitchen finally gets very very sexy - demo with CTO Dave Evans

I don’t want to keep being nice about companies and I thought when I met Surfkitchen I would be bored and remain unimpressed about the ODP marketplace. It would make for good reading writing that SurfKitchen had gotten it wrong again.

This time, however, after tracking Surfkitchen for years – Dave Evans CTO came up with [...]

Why even UIQ is too difficult

I am a useless female with no idea of mobile devices. I can test you WAP site, create your campaign, get you killer PPC rates. Then I can write and test mobile search that is available online or pre-installed.
Ask me to download anything above and beyond that and I crumble. Today, I downloaded the FlixWagon [...]

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