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A Conversation with Ed Hodges, Head of Mobile at Touchnote
I recently had a chance to interview Ed Hodges, Head of Mobile at UK-based Touchnote . During our conversation, Ed described the unique challenges of delivering a digital service (their mobile app for use on Nokia devices) that includes a physical product (printed...
JasonBlack, 11 November 2009 |
A conversation with Robin Jewsbury, co-founder of Mippin,...
Long-time Forum Nokia Champion , and co-founder of Mippin , Robin Jewsbury recently spoke with us about his experience developing Web Runtime (WRT) widgets for use on Nokia S60 devices. "We love web technology now – we're building on top of the Mippin...
siliconindia Mobile Application Conference India 2009
Hi All, Just wanted to let you know about an exciting event siliconindia is organizing on October 31 st (Saturday in Bangalore). This is a full-day conference that will explore the new opportunities that are emerging and ask the larger...
A conversation with Bernd Wiegmann, and his Ovi Store...
Bernd Wiegmann is a Forum Nokia Champion who has been developing for Symbian C++ since 2004, and now the CTO of the German company MojosMobile . His company produces a handy application named " CallRecorder " that uses rules-based functionality to...
Mobile Monday Beijing - Mobile Entrepreneurship in China
It was a great turnout. Many friendly faces and everyone avidly interested in the discussion pannel and the panelists themselves: Weihan Liu from Nokia Ventures was in the hot spot and being asked many questions about the type of investments in mobile that...
Ovi Store - Differentiate Freeware vs Adware vs Demos and...
Ovi Store is out now for the past few months and is indeed doing good. However from the various reviews from different people, it is very clear that they are not happy about one thing atleast: "Why are demos and trials given under free and only after download...
Good news on the Horizon
The Symbian Foundation announced a new application-publishing platform, called Horizon , which is intended to help developers, big and small, to publish their Symbian applications on the software market. Under this scheme the...
WRT Wigets on Ovi Store
Ovi Store has been opened for business. It is a great channel for web developers or designers to distribute their mobile content to tens of millions of Nokia S60 device users. Developers can use their existing web technologies skill sets (HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX) to...
Nokia OVI Store launched
Today the Nokia OVI Store finally launched starting from Australia. Dale , a Forum Nokia Champion, has posted some screenshots and a walkthrough of a game purchase . It seems that the first countries to receive the OVI Store are the ones with Operator/Carrier billing...
MoMoHu - Telco to Web by NSN
Damn, so many abbreviations, let me elaborate them. Mobile Monday Hungary has had another round yesterday with Nokia Siemens Networks giving presentation about Telco to Web . The event was also hosted by NSN at a nice place at their premises....
Facelift at SymbianSigned.com
A refreshed web site welcomes us at http://www.symbiansigned.com , with the site adopting Symbian Foundation 's colors. The change is skin deep however so do not expect any [major] changes in the familiar processes. What is...
OVI Store event in the valley: presentations available
Last week there was the OVI Store event in the valley , and now presentation docs are available: 01-Introduction-and-Event-Overview.pdf 02-Introduction-to-Nokia.pdf 03-Nokia-OVI-Store.pdf 04-Case-Study-Earthcomber.pdf ...
The $1 business model
There are two kinds of developers: those who want to sell their programs and those who write software for fun and/or for fame. The latter type is happy with writing freeware, most probably open source software. This article is about the former. Of course, most developers...
Mobilize your websites and win...
We have published a new section on Forum.Nokia.com home page about the business case Why you should mobilize your websites and also talk about the mobile web technologies options available to help you in mobilizing your web sites. Take a look and feel free to provide...
Mobile advertising - An experience
Background I decided to give a try to a Reversi-like game found on the Internet just the other day. There was a link to an installation package, which I downloaded and manually installed on my Nokia N95. Even though there was nothing mentioned about that the application...
SMS 2 Email!
How many times has it happened to you, that you need to send an urgent email, and you just don't find internet with you? How many times, while travelling, did you want to send an email, but again no internet/GPRS? Like the above two questions...
Let's talk about ... Qt
This is just a brief note about a new addition in the Forum Nokia Discussion Board, the Qt for S60 forum. We have moved there all the posts related to the subject we have found around the board and now the forum is open, waiting you all to ask and answer...
Nokia should buy Yahoo?
It's already known to most people that Yahoo! is in big financial trouble. Even worse, they were tried to be bought by a company ( Microsoft ) they didn't want to sell themselves to. They successfully fought against that attempt, however, their value was much...
Mobile Monday in Hungary
I don't know if you've ever heard of the event, Mobile Monday , but if you visit their site you can see that it's a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business...
Ridiculous strict control in Apple AppStore
One of the most useful applications mobile users could ever use is Opera Mini . This freely downloadable tiny mobile browser relies on a remote server to do the "dirty job" and let the thin mobile client display the result and handle user interactions. It's...
Transforming mobile industry
I read the following quote from Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia CEO, in InformationWeek : "The industry as whole is in the middle of a transformation, and it's a very exciting time," said Kallasvuo. "It's moving from a device industry to an experience...
London JamCam’s Widget available on Nokia's Mosh
We are proud to share our first Widget for Web Runtime . The application is free and allows users avoid traffic getting views of a full list of jam cams in London. More than 100 cameras across the capital updated every one minute! The PRO version is comming and...
Turn your S60 device into a web SMS interface
We have been investigating many times how to add SMS support to our web services, but things looked quite complicated and expensive, each time we ended up changing our mind. But thanks to the post of the guys at Arctic Startup , now we know a nice, easy and free way...
Silicon Valley doesn't respect Nokia
In response to the article I found on Forbes.com , Nokia Software Problem , let me collect my remarks on the statements in a single post. The list of statements below simply follows the same order as they appeared in the original article. " Nokia sells close...
Brief status report about smartphone market, mid-2008
Having followed the news of mobile industry in the past week, I thought it would be worth collecting some articles in a single post to see things from a bird's view, thus having a better overview on what's been going on lately on smartphone market. RIM has been...
