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Flash Lite Coming to WM SmartPhone

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:28:02 +0200

Adobe have announced a licencing agreement that will see both Flash Lite 3.x and the Adobe Reader LE software available on Windows Mobile smartphones.

Microsoft has also licensed Adobe Reader LE software for viewing Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents including email attachments and web content. Both Adobe products will be made available to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, who license Windows Mobile software.

The Flash Lite 3.x browser plug-in for Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Mobile will provide users with access to rich and interactive web content created using Adobe Flash technology.

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YouTube APIs for Mobile Developers

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:31:18 +0200

YouTube has opened new APIs to allow more innovative ways to enhance and interact with YouTube content. This includes ways to integrate YouTube videos onto other websites, create desktop applications, video games, mobile devices, televisions, cameras, and more.

You can use the APIs to:

Upload videos and video responses to YouTube
Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, comments, favorites, contacts, etc)
Get RSS feeds (most viewed, top rated, etc.) for 18 international locales
Perform custom queries optimized for 18 international locales
Customize player UI and control video playback (pause, play, stop, etc.) through software

Helio has created a way to integrate YouTube with there custom application.

Helio's custom YouTube application allows users to browse tens of millions of videos and includes a full suite of personalization and community features such as:

Rate: let everyone know which videos you like best
Comment: add your own two cents by posting text comments for everyone to read
Share: send favorite videos to friends using address book integration
Save: save favorite videos to My Favorites and My Playlists
Subscribe: subscribe to a channel to check out more from that user
Record and Upload: capture a video on Ocean and instantly upload it to a personal channel; geo-tag video uploads and post video responses

You can find the Youtube Client Libraries and Sample Codes in here

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Google In The Mobile Area

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:01:59 +0200

Google had Announced 2008 Developer Events, The Events will include a mix of practical, hands-on advice for building web apps as well as opportunities to learn about and discuss emerging trends. Sessions with top Google engineers will cover tools developed both inside and outside Google, including yet to be announced initiatives designed to move the web forward.

Five simultaneous topic areas will cover:

AJAX & JavaScript: AJAX and JavaScript continue to capture the imagination of web developers. These sessions focus on tools and techniques of client-side code, and how to use them to make serious applications quickly and easily.

APIs & Tools: Development tools for the web are evolving. Product APIs allow integration and extension of web applications. Tools like the Google Web Toolkit™ provide a whole new way to improve performance and compatibility.

Social: The web is an inherently social place. A new wave of APIs and frameworks, including OpenSocial, are opening up interesting ways to interact with people through applications.

Mobile: Mobile devices are blurring the lines between handset developers and web developers, opening up interesting opportunities for applications that span multiple platforms. We'll take a look at how developers can use technologies such as Android™ and Mobile Gears to build applications on the mobile web.

Maps & Geo: Since the introduction of the Google Maps™ API in 2005, geo and map applications have been one of the most interesting phenomena on the web. These sessions focus on the many aspects of geo applications, from KML to the Google Maps API and more.

The Events' contents show The development trend of mobile.

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The battle for mobile market - Yahoo and Microsoft

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:22:19 +0200

Yahoo is continuing to release new products. as Microsoft looms in the background.

This month Yahoo released Yahoo Go 3.0 and Yahoo OnePlace, a mobile content management service. It also added new partners for Yahoo Mobile Widgets, all for the European market. The mobile space is a big area of opportunity and, according to analysts, none of the giants have yet to establish themselves as the key player in the mobile space.

The Yahoo mobile operating system, which is already available in the US, will be available in a number of European countries, and European-based widgets will be accessible on Yahoo's mobile browser. In the next couple of months, Yahoo mobile users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK will be able to access localized services from new mobile widget development partners including Eurosport, Xing, eBay, MySpace and Dopplr.

Yahoo Go 3.0
A whole new version of the free Yahoo! Go! on-device portal. Version 2 was actually pretty handy, including mapping and routing and support for built-in GPS. Version 3.0 claims better email handling, more news, satellite maps, live traffic. Sounds a bit like Google's portfolio, except that here it's all in the one Java application. Worth a try? Type get.go.yahoo.com into your smartphone's browser.

Yahoo OnePlace

Yahoo! onePlace™ brings together all your interests, passions and important information into a single location, creating a rich, highly personalized experience around it for you. Everything is instantly organized, dynamically kept up to date, and served up to you the way you want.

Microsoft, too, is vying to compete in the emerging mobile space. This week, the software giant released its own mobile offering. Microsoft has partnered with Nokia to release Silverlight, a mobile operating system for the S60 platform on Symbian OS smartphones. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for interactive applications.

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Search and browse videos on YouTube - emTube for S60 3rd

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:11:01 +0200

emTube is an application for Symbian S60 3rd edition phones that allows you to:

Search and browse videos on YouTube.
Download selected videos onto your phone.
Stream FlashVideo files directly from YouTube.
Play local FlashVideo files.

Other features:

Audio and position control during playback.
Normal and full screen (portrait and landscape mode) video playback.
Ability to use built in accelerometer to rotate video between portrait/landscape mode.

More details

Google Offers Free BlackBerry Calendar Sync Application

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:06:42 +0200

Google recently unveiled its latest cellphone related product: Google Sync. Google Sync is a tool that will synchronize a mobile phone's internal calendar with Google's own free Google Calendar service. Currently the application is available only for RIM's BlackBerry devices, which include the Curve 8300 and the Pearl 8100 family of devices, among others.

The application is capable of synchronizing the date, time, location, and notes associated with a calendar appointment, as well as available/busy time settings and reminder settings. Google Sync has an automatic setting that will cause it to synchronize the phone with the user's Google Calendar account every two hours, though the application will also synchronize immediately when an appointment is updated on the BlackBerry device by the user.

Google Sync can be downloaded from the Google Sync website. More information on the free product can be found here as well.

Google's Voice-Activated Local Search

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:03:11 +0300

Google Voice-Activated Local Search, that's a greate originality.

In an effort to provide users with options for finding local businesses while on the go, Google has introduced a beta search application called Google Voice Local Search. This experimental 411 service, with functionality similar to Google's existing Google Maps application, offers an alternative to using a laptop or desktop computer to search for local businesses.

By dialing 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone in the US, users can get local business information via a voice recognition/response system, you can say "Giovanni's Pizzeria" or just "pizza", and be instantly connected to the business of choice, free of charge. If you prefer to have the information at your fingertips in text form, Google also offers users to the option to have the information sent to a mobile phone as an SMS message. Users will be charged normal text message and airtime rates by their mobile carriers if they choose this option.

At this time, residential information is not available with this service. For more information, go to Google Voice Local Search.