In case you were wondering if Amazon [AMZN] has been resting on the laurels of its successful Kindle re-imaginings, rest assured that they have been taking further steps in their server-based services offerings. Today, if you have logged into Amazon.com, you were greeted with something that looks a bit like this: Yep, it’s true: Amazon [...]
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Microsoft [MSFT] and Nokia are finalizing an agreement to augment Nokia (particularly Symbian/S60-based) phones and smart devices into becoming viable business-grade devices, or even components in functional corporate meshes.
According to the February 25, 2009 announcement from Black Duck Software in their recent report on mobile projects in 2008, the Palm OS platform remains the king of the heap with more than four times (4X) the number of total projects than the second place platform, the iPhone OS. While Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone OS development [...]
The Setup “Is it worth it to produce software for [name-a-mobile-device]?” “I’ve heard that I would get screwed by [name-a-mobile-manufacturer] if I develop for them and try to port to [name-another-mobile-manufacturer]… is it true?” Over the past several months, since the advent of the iPhone 3G and its competitors, I’ve received plenty of E-mail from [...]
As mentioned earlier, the RIM [RIMM] BlackBerry Storm was scheduled for release today, and it certainly did, amidst a flurry of “you-just-gotta-have-it” TV and radio commercials. Although the product has been in the pipeline as a competitor to Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone 3G for several months, it did not seem to have the kind of public [...]
Remember when the news about the T-Mobile [DT] G1 smartphone came out, and the news about the updated (first “official” 1.0) Google [GOOG] Android SDK? Well, today is the official release date of the G1 to the public. A lot of reporters and analysts have already said their piece about the G1, so now it’s [...]
The Setup Last year, there was a lot of what-if talks about bringing together interested parties to compete against the might of Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone product. There were a lot of nay-sayers and people who were pooh-poohing the notion that, given Apple’s head-start, there would be no way for anybody to catch up. Last November, [...]
After a fairly long delay, the first major publicly available implementation of Google’s [GOOG] Android SDK on a phone (the GPhone format) is finally unveiled as T-Mobile’s [DT] G1, also known as the HTC Dream. In addition to the G1 itself, there’s also the Android Market, a software depot very similar to Apple’s [AAPL] App [...]
Prelude More than a few intrepid adventurers out there have noticed my comments for one of Dan Frommer’s posts at SAI about the Android SDK and the proposal for the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) “GPhone” mobile phone platform for which the SDK can be used to create applications. Many of you have fired me E-mails [...]
There already seems to be some market movements for Apple [AAPL] today, as the WWDC 2008 starts today. My previous post brought forth an overview of the technical conference, but I’m sure a lot of people will be focusing on the Other Steve’s keynote address, particularly with regard to the iPhone. But I suspect there [...]
