A few days ago Google has finally released a new version of the Android SDK. The version number of this new versione is 0.9 and it seems that we are slowly approaching the first official release of Version 1.0.
The post of the announcement can be read by following this link pointing to the official Google [...]

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I have never been a great fan of Windows Mobile on mobile phones. Probably it is because I started  using Windows Mobile on embedded systems a long time ago in my previous jobs and at the time it was not so impressive.
If we look at Windows Mobile phones on the market today we see that [...]

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I have been a great fan of Second Life for a very long time. A few months ago I almost quitted since it was starting to become boring and quite repetitive.
Vollee Inc., a company with offices in the United States and Israel has anounced a Second Life viewer for Symbian enabled mobile phones. This is [...]

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I came through a short, but interesting, post from Simon Judge over at Mobile Phone Development.
Simon makes a very good point. When you have a brilliant idea for a mobile service you may find yourself engaging so many partners asking for slices of the pie that makes the whole service not appealing for each of [...]

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After accelerometer technology made its appearance to the masses it seems that every mobile phone manufacturer is rushing to put the very same bit of hardware in their mobile phones.
There a lot of applications that can make use of the accelerometer to increase the usability of the products or services and there also some very [...]

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You will be able to access Skype services while you are hitting the road without having to be a 3 customer in Europe or firing up your laptop in a WiFi covered area You will finally be free from you mobile phone plan and you will be able to talk and chat for free forever! … (Well on some mobile phones it will be possible but they are a few) This means that you will always need to have your application running in the foreground consuming battery power at a much faster rate compared to the idle state.

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Yesterday night I was sitting on the sofa reading the March issue of the wired magazine.
One of the most interesting article was one titled “Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business“.
Citing the article, this is an interesting passage:
Forty years ago, Caltech professor Carver Mead identified the corollary to Moore’s law of ever-increasing computing power. [...]

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When I look at how people use their mobile phone I always end up with the very same conclusion.
We tend to look at things with our eyes and not really with the eyes of your customers. Having a quick look at who is sitting near to me I find a bunch of tech savvy, marketing [...]

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I have been playing a lot with the iPhone and I actively read anything that talks about it. Well, actually I try to read as much as possible on the mobile phone industry. At the end of day it is part of my job.
I think we can say that the iPhone has been a breakthrough [...]

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… It is what customers want to do that matters.
This simple yet provocative sentence has been said by Rakesh Mahajen, Global Director of Mobility at BT Global Services, during a keynote speech in Barcelona.
I have to say that this has been my exact thinking in the last year and it comes no surprise to me.
Actually [...]

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It seems that spending too much time surrounded by Industrial Design and User Interface guys is mining my technical background but I am definitely falling in love with the Yanko Design web site.

This small white cube will sit on your desk and will wait for your mobile phone to come close.
When the cube will detect [...]

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Accelerometers are not new technology since they have been around in several devices. Apple MacBook just to make one well known example.
Since the launch of the iPhone it seems that every mobile phone manufacturer has gone wild with this technology.
You can also find one in the Nokia N95 and Nokia has recently released the Accelerometer [...]

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Qik is a brand new service that wille let you stream live content from your mobile phone to the Internet.
Qik delivers a simple application to install on your mobile phone that will take control of your mobile phone camera and will deliver your video stream to QIK servers.
From what I can read from their web [...]

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There is a great article on the New York Times that reveals the fact that Google has noticed that traffic to their sites coming from iPhone has surged during the last holidays period.
You can read the original article by clicking here.
I think there a lot of interesting things in this article.
First one: The amount of [...]

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