Posted these over on hacker news last month and guess they really should be on here as well * iPhone 5 will add NFC, which will have advertisers foaming at the mouth as Apple will link to ATV* RIM will be brought by a network operator for their operator friendly tech * Existing iOS and [...]
Read MoreWhether you believe LinkedIn is overpriced or not and taking into account the shortage of shares made available (7.84 million was all that the underwriters released) the shares really did pop yesterday It looks like a lot of money was left on the table at the price of $45, back when Google floated they did [...]
Read More dutch auction, ipo, linkedinWhilst many developers complain of a race to the bottom with app pricing as this comic briliantly illustrates http://theoatmeal.com/blog/apps I do question whether this was a metric that developers found easy to manipulate in the early days of app stores that may not necessarily hold true in the longer term, a great comment I once [...]
Read MoreOne of the great aspects of frameworks such as LWUIT and freely available information with regards to device groupings, is the promise of finally achieving the nirvana of “write one run anywhere” or the new idiom which seems to be “write once deploy anywhere” Thankfully we do seem to be leaving the dark days of [...]
Read More J2ME, LWUIT, MobileFollowing the announcement today of Orange and T Mobiles joint venture Here are some anagrams of the two, that made me laugh this morning , please feel free to add! @dan_mcneil Terminable Goo lame rebooting to range mobile I belong to met And one that dont quite use all the letters, but the brand in [...]
Read MoreAndroid market place announcement Great news,now all that needs to happen is for some “sexy” phones to be announced in Barcelona next week that are utilising the Android platform There is a $25 sign up fee that is paid via Google checkout, far easier and simpler process than signing up for Apples app store Will [...]
Read More android marketWhilst I love Cocoa Touch and the iPhone app store, the one thing thats a stumbling block for many people is the language that is Objective C Here is Googles primer for Java programmers coming to Objective C and cross compiling from Java Google Objective C primer
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