Qualcomm announces Plaza Retail
Qualcomm has announced their own mobile applications store named Plaza Retail.
This would be an alternative to the company’s own Brew developer environment which is currently used by Verizon Wireless and some other mobile service providers.
Qualcomm said that this new store would provide applications for a variety of devices powered with different mobile [...]
Zoho range of services are now mobile friendly
Zoho has announced that they are now supporting several mobile platforms with their range of web services.
They have been supporting Apple iPhone and Windows Mobile already.
The support for mobile devices is now expanded to new platforms including Google Android, Blackberry and Symbian S60.
Zoho has now provided [...]
Barnes & Noble launches ebook reader for Blackberry
Amazon has launched their Kindle application for the Apple iPod Touch and iPhone devices.
Now, Barnes & Noble has announced the launch of a similar application for the Research in Motion Blackberry smartphone.
This application has been developed by Fictionwise which was recently acquired by Barnes & Noble. [...]
Windows Mobile 7 coming next year
Microsoft has said that they are aiming to release Windows Mobile 7 sometime next year.
The company is for now expected to launch Windows Mobile 6.5 sometime later this year.
Microsoft face tremendous competition in the mobile operating system market with the entry of new players like Apple, Google Android and [...]
Nokia to invest heavily in Symbian mobile platform
Nokia is the world’s largest mobile phone maker and Symbian is the world’s most popular mobile platform.
However, both Nokia and Symbian face massive competition from the new players in these markets.
Nokia has now announced that they are being provided a $630 million loan by the European [...]
Open Source Symbian on track for launch in 2010
Symbian Foundation has stated that they are well on track to launch the open source edition of Symbian mobile OS in 2010.
The Symbian Foundation was formed after Nokia acquired the rest of the stake in the company and announced that it would be released as an OSS [...]
Symbian: Nokia acquisition of the company complete
Symbian has announced that Nokia has now completed the acquisition of the company.
Symbian happens to be the world’s largest smartphone platform company.
Nokia had earlier this year announced their plans to acquire the remaining stake in Symbian with the aim of making it available through Open Source platform.
They are [...]
Adobe Systems to launch fully functional Flash for mobile devices
Adobe has been making available a light edition of Adobe Flash for mobile devices.
However as the technology is advancing and people now want full web on their mobile devices, the company is working on bringing the fully functional Adobe Flash technology on mobile devices.
Adobe Chief Technology [...]
XenDesktop and XenApp coming to Apple iPhone
Citrix has announced that they are working on XenDesktop and XenApp client and server software for the Apple iPhone platform.
They aim to make available these applications by the first half of next year on the Apple iPhone.
A company representative said: “We expect to have it sooner rather than later.”
Citrix [...]
Symbian Foundation gets support from Opera, Sharp, KTF and more
Symbian Foundation has revealed that a couple of more companies have joined the group to gain free access to its technology.
Some of the prominent new members include Sharp, Opera Software and KTF.
They already have the support of all the major mobile phone companies in the world [...]
