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mobilkom austria rolls out VISA credit card in Austria.
The time of trials is over today, as mobilkom Austria – Austria’s largest MNO with its brands “A1”, “RedBull mobile” and “bob” – launches a VISA creditcard for all 4,6 mio A1-customers today. With regard to banking,...
geri-m, 8 September 2009 |
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Hartti and Ron go to WeirdStuff
Last week I was in training in the Silicon Valley in California so I took some time to meet with my teammate Hartti Suomela to do some team building. When Hartti gave me the choice of where to go after some gathering of information on the internet, I chose Weird Stuff...
Simple solutions, huge benefits
All too often developers try to solve problems with the latest and coolest technologies. You probably can recognise the “next feature pack will include THE missed feature” disease and its close relative “this feature is now available in only one terminal...
Web 2.0 rev. 8.0d
I never got the purpose of a Wiki until I started using Wikipedia . To me the only thing that Wikis were good for was for collaboration projects. I did not grasp the concept of contributed documentation, only contributed code and comments. Now, a Wikipedia is my...
Scalability
One of the things engineers are going to have to think about when the new widgets api's come out is not just to think about the device, but rather to think about the server side. I mean how great is your widget going to be if your server is being hosed by millions of...
Web 2.0, Part 2.0 Sales
My local newspaper recently changed to truly be local with only one page devoted to national or international news yet on Sundays they have the expanded news and there is one page devoted to business. In this weeks paper the main feature was Technology helps reinvent...
Web 2.0, Part 1.5
While I enjoy blogging and it does put a human face to a company I don’t see it as the penultimate feature of web 2.0. However, when you talk to bloggers or the media (where journalists are pretty much just paid bloggers) you would think that blogs are the beginning and...
Start of the Widget Workshop (or taking the red widget pill)
Welcome to our (Paul Coulton and Will Bamford’s) new Start2Finish blog called Widget Workshop . This will be an evolutionary series of blogs revealing our experiences developing a range of widgets from a standing start of no prior experience. In other words, we are...
Web 2.0, Part 1.0
I dislike buzz words like Web 2.0 that don’t mean anything so why not have a series of articles that tell what it means. One of Nokia’s employees uploaded a thesis on Web 2.0 to the Developer’s Wiki that I think every mobile developer should...
Google Developer Day
Between moving house, two projects in crisis, no broadband and google dev day I hav'nt had the chance to do any decent coding for the blog. I was however really impressed with what google gears potentional was on a mobile device, especially for Enterprise applications. It...
Operator view on NFC environment
GSM Association has recently published a Technical Guideline document about mobile NFC technologies. This paper is an interesting one for two reasons: it gives you an idea how major operators (MNO's involved in this NFC initiative represent 45% of the global GSM market) see...
Browser and enterprise applications
For all these years that I have been in mobile industry one question has remained the same. Typically at some stage of enterprise project customer poses the big question: " But why we just can't use the browser of the terminal, instead of making this client application?...
Another latest release of Carbide.c++ for Symbian C++...
Forum Nokia had released the ever waited new version of Carbide.c++ 1.2 to the public. This latest version supports the new Open C SDK plug in . Regardless to the earlier releases there are mainly four kinds of Editions available: OEM Edition: This edition is...
Valentines Day a day made for Mobile Devices
Mobile devices are red hot today! This is the one day where you have to call your loved one at least three times but you need to do so much more! You need to make reservations at a nice restaurant. You probably should use your browser capabilities to check what’s on at...
An Impact on Life
Next to the nuclear bomb nothing has had as much impact on the world in the last half century as the personal computer but in the first half of the 21’st century the impact is going to be from mobile devices. I am sitting here trying to imagine what the next generation...
Jet Lag and Naked Telecommunications
I’m not sure what it was, if it was the article in computerworld.com or if I still have a bit of jet lag from my recent trip to Finland. Whatever it was, I found the story of naked telecommuting to be laughing out loud hysterical. Bob Brown’s article The...
Where are new RFID terminals?
Last year I was asked about the possibility to use RFID-tags with Nokia terminals. I did some research and found out that there were two devices in the market that supported separate accessory RFID-shells. The problem with those shells was that you were locked in to Nokia's...
E or N-Series; what's the diffrence?
Some days ago Gabor Torok wrote in his blog about his intentions to buy an E-series terminal but buying an N-series device instead. After reading about his experiences I began to wonder what are the "hidden" differences between E and N series devices. So I took E60...
Synchronizing data between S60 devices
Today when I was browsing the Internet for the latest news on mobile ecosystem, I clicked some link and was thrown to s60.com . It had been quite a while since I last time visited that site and I must admit that there has been a major facelift for the site. My previous...
I've heard there is a new firmware available...
It was one morning last week when we got a report about new firmware version for Communicator devices. That's always a serious situation, because we have learned that new firmware versions sometimes cause interoperability problems. A typical customer installation can contain...
How to become a Phone Sniper?
I assume anybody who has released an application for mobile devices will agree – testing every aspect of the application is a nightmare. Testing as such is a difficult and time-consuming task, but testing mobile devices adds extra difficulty: the variety of devices and...
Device, which does not exist yet
I am used to see various gadget sites and technology-oriented blogs leak information about products not yet published / launched. However, I was more than a little surprised when a colleague of mine handed me Wall Street Journal from yesterday (Thursday, August 24) and...
Planning J2ME-based enterprise application deployments
Just a reminder for planning the deployment of J2ME apps across multiple phone vendors and carriers. Remember that even if the phone model specs support the right configuration and profile of J2ME, some parties restrict some phones from loading 3rd-party apps. For one app, we...
The End of the Desktop
Our non-developers day-to-day use their laptops and desktops in three main areas 1) accessing the internet, 2) email and 3) office-type functions such as spreadsheets and documents. With smart phones like the Nokia 9300 and 9500, which we use internally, they...
